Geoff Goldsbrough looks back at footage of his parents' wedding and of their reception at Belfast Castle in 1939. This is followed by scenes of his parents at his own wedding in the 1960s. This clip appeared in Series 1, Programme 1 of Super 8 Stories.

Bride and groom leaving church at 1939 wedding. Bride and groom meeting and greeting guests at reception. Posing for photographs at Belfast Castle. Bride and groom showered with confetti and leaving castle in car. Bride and groom leaving church during 1960s wedding. Bride and groom showered with confetti and crowds gathered in car park to see them off at reception.

1939, 1960s

Belfast

Jenny Goldsbrough, BBC NI, Doubleband Films

Jenny Goldsbrough, BBC NI, Doubleband Films

Narrator - Maire Jones; Camera - Michael Quinn; Sound - Sion Kerr, Gregg Bailey; Music Consultants - Jim Meredith, Ralph McLean; Production Accountant - Anne Hegarty; Production Assistant - Tammy Moore; Graphic - Alan Perry; Dubbing - One Zero Zero; Online Editor - Johnathan Fetherstone; Researcher - Ronan Feely; Archivist - Evan Marshall; Assistant Producer - Jenny Waugh; Executive Producers - Deirdre Devlin, Michael Hewitt; Editors - Greg Darby, Henry Wood; Producer - Diarmuid Lavery; Director - Brian Henry Martin

BBC NI

16mm, Standard 8mm, film, colour

No

4min17sec

Geoff Goldsbrough was an agent for electrical equipment at the time of his marriage to Betty Wright. The event was captured on 16mm film when he decided to hire a cameraman to record the guests arriving at June McCracken Memorial Church on the Malone Road and afterwards at the reception at Belfast Castle. The family began to shoot their own 16mm film afterwards his son, also named Geoff, remembers them “being shown on the wall at home”. To Geoff they remain important for “the pleasure of seeing the family when they were young and seeing my mother and father when they were alive”.