Anniversary Photos

chinese 2Wedding photos capture love, celebration and joy. However, for a couple from eastern China’s Anhui Province, they couldn’t afford to have a photographer on the day – they actually had to wait until their 80th wedding anniversary to have a picture taken to commemorate their love, but it seems it was worth the wait!

chinese 1Song Qinglin, 102, and his wife Song Lishi, 99, were married in 1936. While many find it a financial struggle to put on a wedding, they say they were so poor that they only had three plates of food at their wedding celebration.

chinese 4The couple have spent a happy lifetime together, had six children, five grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. Recently, a local volunteer association helped the couple arrange a wedding photo shoot to honour their 80th anniversary on July 23, 2016.

chinese 3According to reports, the 99 year old bride loved every minute of the TLC and primping to get ready. The volunteers even provided a wedding gown for the occasion, and the groom wore a traditional red Changshan.

80 years of marriage is an incredible effort – congratulations to the happy couple!