I hear that it is snowing in Greece today ! It was snowing 64 years ago today when Donald and I got married at St. Luke's Church in London. I had planned a spring wedding. We married in a blizzard and I nearly froze to death. The photographer fell down the church steps in the snow. The thirty guests were pleased to have a lunch of hot roast chicken with all the trimmings instead of the planned cold buffet.
The next morning we left for our honeymoon in the south of France. Very exciting as foreign travel was still very restricted because one was only allowed to take out of the country a very small amount of our currency. I think it was £25 per person. We travelled to Dover on the Golden Arrow, a very swish Pullman train.
We were glad to leave the wintry weather behind. It had been a hard winter since January with a lot of snow. Fuel was short and many foods still rationed.
Although Don had travelled all over the world in his six years in the RAF I had never been abroad before. We had a sleeper to St. Raphael and woke in the morning to blue skies. colourfully painted houses and the wonderful scent of mimosa. What more could any girl ask?
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