Digging through the old videos the other day I found our wedding video from 1974 .
The great train robbers only got 25 years....
I have now transferred it onto DVD - it was originally on cine film.
SWMBO and her dad got to the church in a gleaming gold hired Ford Zephyr 6 and the rest of the outlaws were in a Vauxhall Cresta....
It got me thinking -what cars did you or yours hire at your wedding
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1981 in black stretch Mercedes (stretch in 1981 was about 3 feet longer than the original car)
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1932 RR 25 - very similar to the RR 25 that my father had when I was born.
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How did you do the transfer to DVD. My Father-in-Law has a shed full of Super8mm and he wants to transfer to DVD.
Thanks for any useful tips you can tell me on how you achieved this miracle!
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VW Touran (54) 1.9 TDI
Citroen C8 (57) 2.0 HDi SX
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In an Austin Princess limo (I think) in 1971.
I remember being annoyed as I was obviously paying for the copious amounts of Isopon holding the thing together.
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Charles - The transfer from cine to video was done for us by an audio visual specialist must be 20 years ago , its only about five minutes of film and I think it cost us £20 , not cheap at the time but worth it to SWMBO who likes to revisit the scene of the crime every now and again.....
I used to break out in a cold sweat at the thought of taping it over with Match of the Day or some such .
We bought a hard drive recorder at Christmas and I set it up in a link with the video so that the video output is saved on the hard drive of the DVD recorder.
Next stage is to transfer from hard drive onto disc - I know it can be done on the ( Sony) recorder that I have but I have not had the time or inclination to read the manual and work out how to do so yet.
I am sure that you could find a company who can copy direct from super 8 direct onto DVD and in fact we have a load of reels of super 8 film in the loft as well as the old projector and screen. I might just have a word with the company I used all those years ago and see what it would cost.
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Another Austin Princess, 1971. More like a lorry than a limo.
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Merc E320 for the wedding car - all the toys including a PlayStation in the back, which Mrs B inexplicably wouldn't let me use.
My Dad's Multipla was also drafted in to ferry divers inlaws about. We were going to use my mate's A6 as well, but his good lady had an argument with a pillar driving into a parking space 2 weeks before the wedding, requiring a new rear door(!).
Fortunately obliging local Vauxhall dealer (who then operated a rental department) happened to have a brand new (<2 weeks old) Vectra C in a very good spec for a very reasonable price, so mate's wife was not brutally slain by Mrs B, luckily for her...
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Mark 2 Granada for the wedding car (local taxi) and we hired a Cavalier.
Both of them outlasted the marriage so as you'll guess it was not a success! ;-)
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My sister got a company to copy some of my Dad's old movies of us from 40 years ago onto DVD for my mum's 70th birthday recently. Company seemed pretty good eg. she was able to make copies for us as well. I'll get the name off her...
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In 1985 me and my intended travelled in a MG SA 2 Litre 1937 vintage, the rest of the family travelled in a 1920's old London double decker bus. The MG was open top, blew the hair round a bit but what the hell it was fantastic
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We were all set to use my beloved (and now sadly departed) Westfield. However, a thunderstorm put paid to that idea and an ushers Merc 190 was drafted in at the eleventh hour.
The Westie made it on the honeymoon though on a three week driving holiday round the twistier bits of southern France.
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A Daimler DS420. Not to Church though - registry office for us two!
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14 years and she's not got me to the church....
YET
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She will ......
Very tenacious these females....
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look - I'm about to go and do the washing up, what more can she expect
(motoring link - she organised an Austin 7 for her Ma'n'pa's n'th wedding anniversary last year - perhaps she doesn't worry that much about me )
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"look - I'm about to go and do the washing up, what more can she expect "
Dishwasher... oh she's got one ;-)
I went to the church in my car and my wife got a life in another of a relative later. Original plan was to walk across fields from the church to reception (Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire)... but foot and mouth put a stop to that and nearly the wedding!
So then got driven in the Passat to the reception by my brother and later we drove to the lakes. And the thing I have not seen again to this day... a black swan at Bowness.... anyone else?
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....... and laterwe drove to the lakes. And the thing I have not seen again to this day... a black swan at Bowness.... anyone else? Lakes!! us too!, and black swans.....
Uncommon, but not unheard of. More common in our locality is a goose (a gander to be precise), who has made himself very much part of our local swan colony.
Anyway, back to cars. My wife arrived for our wedding in an immaculate white RR Silver Cloud, which then took us to some local gardens for the photos, and then on to the reception. Left the reception driving a friend's new Volvo 760GLE, then went to Ambleside in our Astra! - that was back in '88, the cars are probably all long gone - the marriage is still running fine!
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She will ...... Very tenacious these females....
Too true - I lasted 6 years. The deal eventually was " OK ... you can have a Westfield if............"
What else could I do? Expensive year that was! Jeez that car was fun tho' ! ;-)
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Daimler DS420, and a Landcrab ( this was 1974) which managed parents-in-law and two large bridesmaids back from the church. Anyone familiar with Minster Lovell (Oxon) will know that it's less than half a mile from church to the Swan Hotel: we could have walked, but the thought of SWMBO's bridal dress and the possibility of rain put us off.
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Spring of 1990. RR Silver Shadow driven by a bloke who looked like Johnny Morris in his zoo keepers uniform.
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Often thought that the wedding car lark could subsidise the running of a classic. Would still need the initial investment but the fees would help the running costs.
Edited by Round The Bend on 29/01/2008 at 07:48
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Often thought that the wedding car lark could subsidise the running of a classic. Would still need the initial investment but the fees would help the running costs.
I suspect that is what's happening here ........
Attended the wedding a fortnight ago of the girl, who at 2 years of age, was a flowergirl at our own wedding in 1988.
She arrived in a very nice Alvis TA14 Mulliner Saloon, in navy blue and silver (the car - not the bride!)
At least the bride managed to stay awake for the whole ceremony - she fell asleep half way through ours!!!
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We did not hire any cars
I went in my brothers 1.3 Escort - he was best man.
The bride went in a friends white Mercedes (300D I think).
This was 1981 so I must be due for parole soon!
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1994, main wedding car was a 1930's black and yellow RR, second car was a Bentley borrowed from my fathers company and driven by him as he wanted to do something useful!
StarGazer
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Oh dear, this is embarassing.
When we got marroed in 1988 my dad was working for a Rover dealership. We were taken to church in a fleet (well 2 actually) of Montegos complete with the obligatory ribbons etc.
One of them was an MG and my mate drove me at a ferocious pace around the lanes to the church, relishing all 115hp. I believe the bride's car was a Vanden Plas or Mayfair spec.
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Often thought that the wedding car lark could subsidise the running of a classic. Would still need the initial investment but the fees would help the running costs.
A friend of mine occasionally drives wedding cars for someone he knows.
The guy is a dentist who who does the wedding cars as a bit of a hobby; he has a big 30s Austin and a 50s Alvis convertible. The latter I think is a TD21 with a straight 6, sounds pretty good.
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Escort XR3 to get to the church; some form of old large limo-ish thing [Armstrong-Siddley?], to get to SWMBO's home; XR3 to the o/n hotel later; taxi to Gatwick at 5 a.m. next morning.
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A BMW 730i hired by my best man.
We then spent most of the afternoon after the wedding hooning it around the back streets while my bride wondered if her husband had done a runner.
A fact she still reminds me of some 20 years later.
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Still a sore point in our house..My best man took us to the registry office office in a beat up MK 2 Cortina Estate which had a load of builders tools in the back.
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First wedding in Hanbury Manor Golfing hotel - golf cart.
Second wedding on the Kings Road - 90s Bentley.
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Often thought that the wedding car lark could subsidise the running of a classic. Would still need the initial investment but the fees would help the running costs.
Not as straightforward as it might sound though. I wonder how many of the classics seen on wedding work at the weekend have proper insurance, for example? I certainly had a lot of hassle doing it legally when I obliged friends with my old Daimler or Rover now and again.
And everybody seems to be at it these days. I never fail to feel depressed when I look on eBay and see yet another poor, tired old two-and-a-half grand Silver Shadow with an embarrassing cheap white blow-over and ribbons and the promise of a fortune to be made on hire work.
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A BMW 730i hired by my best man. We then spent most of the afternoon after the wedding hooning it around the back streets while my bride wondered if her husband had done a runner.
Nice to see you have your priorities right. You only had the 730i for the day, you have the wife for eternity. :-)
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Nice to see you have your priorities right. You only had the 730i for the day, you have the wife for eternity. :-)
But no doubt he had already test driven the wife.... :)
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day you have the wife for eternity. :-)
No it only seems that long. Two years and 9 months with an Austin Maestro felt much longer tho.
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For those of you in the south who want to transfer cine to DVD , I had a word yesterday with the company who transferred the cine to video for me .
They no longer do this service but recommended Epsom Video Services ( 01737 354692) who can transfer from cine to DVD. I had a word and it works out at £5 per 50 ft of cine with a minimum of £15. The price goes down the more you have done so 8 x 50ft would be £30. I am going to hunt through the attic at the weekend and get the old cine transferred.
They are not too far from me.I have no connection etc etc....
Just to get the thread back to weddings cars - the last wedding I went to was a second time around for wifes oldest friend and her new husband.
The two of them left in an immaculate James Bond Aston Martin DB5 borrowed from a friend.
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Obviously the ejector seat wasnt working.
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Thanks Helicoptor, along with the other link in this thread, I've got some researching to do.
Many thanks
By the way, Our Wedding car in 2000 was a Rolls Royce Silver Wraith: 1951
Lovely car: Still going strong with the company who chauffeured us.
www.regencycarriages.co.uk/rollsroycesilverwraithw...m
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it seems to me that the ink hasn"t had time to dry on your wedding certificates!! married in 1955 and it is solong ago I cannot remember the vehicle used but I think it was a Humber.
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Edited by Dynamic Dave on 29/01/2008 at 19:17
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Amstrong Siddeley Sapphire.
Lovely car, pre-selector gearbox with a straight 6 engine.
Beautifully restored by the bloke who chauffeured us, last year.
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Me: The best man's 7 year old Astra GTE 16v (which by pure coincidence was/is one of my favourite affordable cars of its era)
SWMBO: Her dad's 6 month old mk3 Golf TDI
Out-laws gave us a choice - a "big" wedding with the classic cars, hired suits, sit down meal and all the trimmings, or a low cost wedding and a big bung towards the deposit for a house.
No brainer for us.
I was best man at my now brother-in-law's wedding and managed to borrow a Lotus Elise off a mate to drive him to the church. It went down well, with a large number of the guests wanting to be photographed in it at the reception. Sadly it had to be safely tucked up back at mine quite early, as I had to return for the serious drinking to commence.
Cheers
DP
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----married in 1955 and it is so long ago I cannot remember the vehicle used but I think it was a Humber---.
Blimey agrb - You must be knocking on - sounds like I'd better start another thread for you.....
'Got me to the crematorium '...... ;0)
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I seem to remember - 1995... we're still going :-) - that I drove to the church with my best man in my Austin Metro (the 1.0 city, in custard yellow). Wife arrived in a Talbot 105 Sports Tourer, that FiL had re-built years ago, and latterly sold (alledgedly when wife was born, to save cash!). He tracked it down for the wedding day, and the then owner, knowing the car's history, leant it to him for the weekend.
With the hood up, it wasn't a fantastically comfortable journey to the reception, but it made a special day a bit more special for FiL and wifey.
Car ownership has thankfully moved on from Austin Metros (which were rubbish, even in 1995), but not into classics.... yet
Jon
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I've been waiting four years for someone to start this thread!
I hired a 1981 Aston Martin V8 Vantage to drive to the church and away again. It was worth foregoing a glass of champers at the church to get this experience.
tinyurl.com/27hssp
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"I've been waiting four years for someone to start this thread!"
Nice wedding shots Bazza, could you fix me up with the girl with the hair ringlets on the right of photo number 31?
Cheers
Nice car too.
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I'm afraid not BBD, don't know her any more (was a work colleague).
If it makes you feel any better, she's not really as sultry as she undeniably looks in that photo. The car on the other hand is even sultrier.
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'Got me to the crematorium '...... ;0)
Who was that said they wouldn't be seen dead in a Volvo :-)
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hello helicopter, yes 75 this year. passed test in 1954. only one minor accident in 1987. 3 points on licence in 2003 doing 41 in 30 limit. I am one of these old boys who ought to be taken off the road because they are too old!! retired in 1992 and recently retired from auction house job collecting cars for auction. could drive 2 or 3 different cars a day. now drive a Focus-brilliant car. test taken in a 1935 Ford with 3 speed gearbox-thosae were the days. looking forward to next 10 years!!
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By the way Our Wedding car in 2000 was a Rolls Royce Silver Wraith: 1951
Rolls Silver Wraith for us too in September 1978. Leaving the church and noting the keys in the ignition, I reached for the door handle, "I'll drive", said I. The chauffeur bent towards my ear. "Are you absolutely sure you want me to share the back seat with the bride?" I stepped aside while he opened the door for the new Mrs. H and followed her into the car.
Strangely enough, there's a C8 in my yard as well.
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 29/01/2008 at 20:57
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Our wedding took place about 5 miles from the reception and to ship us and our guests we hired a white hackney cab and about 30 black cabs. I seem to recall I just called up the company about a week before.
This was all a surprise for the guests and I have crystal clear memory of a friend of ours who at the time worked in the Northern Ireland Office and whose voice can cut concrete spotting the line of cabs outside the church and exclaiming "Oh my goodness, it's a £$%^&*@ IRA funeral..."
Didn't go down too well with my gran I thought.
Incidentally the same friend at her own wedding a couple of years later was doing the line up at the reception after the service and standing next to her now mother in law, greeted the guy next to me in the queue with the words "I'm not sure we've met - have we slept together?"
Edited by Webmaster on 30/01/2008 at 00:53
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Bazza: Interesting to compare the number of pics of the one car versus all the guests and even participants.
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I don't know what you mean...
[innocent whistle]
They're just the photos which were taken with our own compact digital. I'm ashamed to say that the ratio isn't a lot better on the actual official wedding pictures.
Since my wife secretly hired the Aston for me as a wedding present, I think (hope) she was quite pleased with how much attention I paid to it.
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Went to the wedding of one of my Rellies in East London
The father of the bride turned up in a large grey box van, bars on the windows, with the Logo
"Securicor Prison Services" down the side.
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Nice of them to let him out for the day.
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1914 Model T Ford in 1991.
Torrential rain drowned the electrics and we made it to the reception on two cylinders.
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Spring 1975. My Mk II Cortina 1500 Super was hidden from practical jokers, went in my brother's Hillman Hunter. Bride arrived (and we both left!) in white Citroen DS.
What a goddess - and she's still with me. No idea what happened to the car though.
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agrb - It was very naughty of me to mention the crematorium... I apologise.
I was just reminded of 'Only fools and Horses' as Del , Rodney , Uncle Albert , Trigger and Boycey were watching a funeral go past and Boycey said 'Albert - your taxi has arrived'
Anyway at 75 you are just a youngster compared to some on here. Big Nose I think is the oldest backroomer at 92 , come to think of it , he hasn't appeared for a while so I hope he is OK.
Back to the motoring - Lets extend the thread a bit --Terry mentioned hiding his car from the practical jokers -
Did anyones wedding car get sabotaged - kipper on the manifold , gravel in hubcaps ???
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Just as an aside; we regularly get requests in our motorcycle club (Harley-Davidson Riders Club of Great Britain) to do weddings, either a bike to take the bride or groom to church or more commonly a few Harleys as an escort.
Did one meself a few years ago at Alton Towers; ended up being goosed by the bridegroom's mum when I took her round the block! :-)
What we do is to ask the family to donate to our club's chosen charity, normally the local Air Ambulance. Useful way of raising funds and we generally have a good day out as well.
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no apology necessary.I loved "only fools & horses" particularly as I was born and raised in an area of London just like theirs for 30 years until moved with my job to the wilds of Somerset where I still am.
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>> What a goddess - and she's still with me. No idea what happened to the WIFE though.
Message amended to be more in keeping with the spirit of this MB! ;-)
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I'll be getting married in Jamaica in may so no cars for me but I went to a wedding last year where the groom arrived on a Toyota Hi-Lux monster truck with the Imperial March from Star Wars playing on the stereo. It was spectacular.
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I should have arrived on a Challenger II main battle tank blaring out the theme tune from "A Bridge too Far"
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Having done it twice ( and to be fair with no current plans to cancel the second arrangement ! ) I suspect the only subsequent version would involve any vehicle which was capable of creating a huge dust cloud disappearing over the horizon in the opposite direction ! ;-)
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Although I covered the bridal car above, I've only just remembered that I travelled to the nuptials in my brother's Alfa 75.
One of the rare occasions when all of the car's electrics were working in harmony. Great car and looked just right in the car park of the hotel when we had a quick pre wedding drink .. er .. checked the reception arrangements.
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Our car was a 1929 Hupmobile - i wanted an American car, the missus wanted an old one, so it worked. We had to get a stretch limo (four window) for the 12 bridemaids (Barbadian tradition apparently)
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We didn't hire cars.
I arrived in a Ford Fiesta, and my wife arrived in another Ford Fiesta.
Some of us have real class :-)
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...........and some of us don't !
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