We only had a small reception at my now, mother and father - in - laws house, just family and close friends because we had had no time to book a hall anywhere. Dad didn't come to the house with us, he went to the Royal Infirmary in Cardiff to visit Mam.
There were very few telephones in private houses at that time and important messages were delivered to households by the police. In the middle of our wedding party, there was a knock on the front door, there were two policeman wanting to talk to Brian and me, they told us that they had had a message from the hospital saying that Mam had taken a turn for the worse and was very ill. Mo's great uncle Harry Priday who lived in Cardiff and was at our