Our grandparents
My mom sent over these old photos of my grandparents, who met on Valentine's Day back in 1945. My grandfather was an American pilot stationed in England, and my grandmother was an English girl living with her parents. They were set up on a blind date (to a Valentine's Day dance), hit it off, and got married in August of that same year. I love these photos of them right before they got married and on their honeymoon.
Thanks for sending these, Mama!
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Holy cow, adorableee photos! Gotta love a good blind date story. <3
Happy Valentine's Day!
These are amazing, they look so much in love! And I love the backstory.
Such an adorable couple! I love stories like that.
How amazing are those photos! Thank you for sharing. :)
Happy Valentine's Day!
What a great way to start Valentines Day :) Thanks for sharing!
THEY ARE ADORABLE!!
So romantic. I love seeing/hearing the stories of how grandparents met.
so sweet! thanks for the warm fuzzies.
I just swooned! How old were they?!
Isn't it Romantic ?
Just loved this post,thank you.
Beautiful pictures! I especially love that last one!
How sweet and wonderful! How soon after meeting did they marry?
Stacy
Romantic... thanks for sharing. Happy VDay to you, Alex and Toby.
It seems like so many couples from that time met at dances ( my grandparents did too).. its so sweet.. I wish we had some kind of equivalent. Thanks for sharing. :)
incredibly romantic & so beautiful to have...
you absolutely have your grandmothers smile!
beautiful...
melissa xxx
cute, cute, cute!
What sweet photos. I love stories like this :)
Happy Valentine's! xoxo
They look so happy! Such sweet photos!
i can't believe how beautiful those are and how lucky you are to have them! family memorabilia is so important. i think i can see some of your features in their faces joanna!
That is awesome that you guys still have these pictures!!! Awww how sweet of a story!! That date must have been love at first sight! You totally look like your grandmother too!! =) Thanks for sharing such a sweet thing!
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so romantic, these pictures melt my heart!
Those are the sweetest things I've ever seen. It's so fun to see people when they fell in love.
How lovely, your grandmother is beautiful :)
so cute, i love it!!!
amazing!
RIDICULOUSLY cute! How special to have these photos.
those photos are pure love and happiness. so sweet.
I absolutely love these, thank you so much for sharing x
What a great love story...your grandma is gorgeous!
They are ridiculously cute. I LOVE these photos :)
I don't know why I find old black and white photos of couples so romantic, but I do.
DI
everything... that Valentines should be... so precious!!
SO sweet. I love how their love just oozes out of these photos.
what a lovely couple!
Wow, you resemble your Grandfather well. Lovely story. Thank you for sharing
I can't get over these! Such a great story-and what a cute couple!
So cute! I think Toby definitely resembles his grandfather :)
Stunning. I can definitely see the family resemblance!
oh I love this. SO SWEET!
Oh my goodness! How priceless are these vintage photos! Even better with a real story behind them. My heart has melted. <3
Valentine's Day 1945? Could that be any more romantic?! What a wonderful story. :)
oh my gosh these are so sweet!! I love love!
aw! now i wanna fall in love! beautiful pictures :)
Those are such sweet photos!! xxoo :)
So cool to see photos like this. Love the last one and I've got to say, your grandfather was pretty darn hot! ; )
I'm smiling ear to ear!
I feel like I'm watching clips from a romantic movie!
these photos are amazing, they are in great condition Joanna!
they look so in love! amazing photos! happy valentine's day!
this is so romantic it's ridiculous!!
Oh wow. What lovely photos, and an even lovelier story!
Happy Love day!
wow! you are so lucky to have such great vintage photos of your relatives...very sweet! happy vday : )
haha, thanks lbs! :)
Look at how sweet they are by the water!!! Happy v-day! :D
thanks for sharing these lovely old photos (the best kind!) and the sweet story. xo.
i thought i only able to see this photo in movie...
sweet...
So sweet! How lovely to have these photos. Happy Valentine's Day xx!
lovely....
So Romantic!!!! What treasures!!
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Very romantic. My grandma kept all the letters and pictures my grandpa sent her while he was stationed in Italy. This post reminds of me of the sweet memory when she shared the letters and pictures with me. Xo.
Amazing. I love a photo of a woman in pants...like real, wide leg trousers, not this skinny jean nonsense that I keep wearing. I'm going shopping!
What beautiful photos! I teared up just looking at them because they are just such a classic and wonderful display of love.
positively perfect. and on valentine's no less! so great.
Beautiful. Brought tears to my eyes. What was her name? I noticed the M on the sweater.
how romantic! i love these photos...
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These photos are just fantastic! My grandparents always looked sort of pained and stiffish in photos, as if they were victims of a bad arranged marriage. But yours -- ooh la la!
How funny, we also chose to honor my grandparents this Valentine's Day... great story. What is it about those old photos that really makes your heart swell? I think you'll get a kick out of our post, too if you want to check it out :)
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what a lovely story! great photos, very romantic! my husband is a canadian air force pilot and seeing these pictures makes me want to make sure I get a photo with him the next time he's in uniform! I have plenty of him alone or with the kiddos, but not many with he and and I together.
Grandparents are the best! And they are both so beautiful :)
The pictures are so beautiful! You look so much like your grandmother!
Such a lovely valentine's tale - thanks for sharing!
xx
Love these! Your grandparents seem so happy and full of fun! I love your grandma's clothes - the monogrammed jumper, the adorable bathing suit and those great trousers!
they were only 19 and 20 -- so young!
what a beautiful story and such amazing photos! I can't believe they met on Valentines Day!
amazing family photos! and thanks for sharing their story!
gorgeous - restores your faith in love x
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ps. since my grandfather was so young, his mom had to send an official letter from chicago to england, stating that she gave him permission to get married!
i know, i LOVE the monogrammed jumper!! :) her name was mary.
These photos are pure romance. I love them!
true love! thanks for sharing these on valentine's day!!
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So adorable! Thank you for sharing! I can see why they were attracted to one another - they're both very good looking. :) I can see a little a resemblance between you and your grandpa. :)
On a side note, my grandmother cut up some of her newlywed pictures because her knees were showing in some. :P hahaha, ooooh, the difference between the English and the bible belt.
I can see why you are such a romantic, Jo. It runs in your family!
Also, you look a lot like your grandfather. Amazing.
oh wow. these are the cutest photos ever! so rare to see smooches like that!
Lovely photos! Great Valentine's post!
Oh I just love this! My heart just grew three sizes.
Such great photos - How sweet is a romance that gets passed on!
i, too, am dying over that monogrammed jumper.
These are wonderful photos! They look SO in love!
Such a great story..and to be able to have such great photos is such a treasure. Happy Valentine's Day!
-Kathleen
Gorgeous! You've got his eyes and her mouth. Happy Valentines Day everyone.
they look so incredibly smitten with one another! i love it! happy valentine's day, jo!
These are absolutely adorable...photos like this represent love so much to me!
These are amazing.
Valentine's Day 1945! It's like a from a movie! LOVE the photos :)
This is so sweet!
That is the most heart-achingly sweet story.
wow she is gorgeous! amazing couple!
So dreamy and such a sweet story!
oh you look like your grandpa!
I wish I could be that much in love aww
This should serve as proof of lasting love to cynics everywhere! (Including me though).
So sweet. I love the pictures of my grandparents. Only death separated them from each other, and their love.
Happy Valentines day
Eu adorei as fotos! Parece até um filme. Parabéns! e Feliz dia dos Namorados, pois aqui no Brasil, comemoramos somente em 12 de junho.
Se cuide!
I loved the pictures! It seemed like a movie. Congratulations! and Happy Valentines day, because here in Brazil, we celebrate only on June 12.
Take care!
I heart!
What lovely photos! Thanks for sharing! xxxxx
these are so beautiful, when i watch old pictures it takes me to a dream from the past. lovely x
what a cute story! it seems you look a little bit like your grandfather, hm?
I absolutely adore the pictures you shared. My boyfriend goes to the Naval Academy, and is hoping to be a pilot when he graduates. We have a similar story as to how we met, and are almost always long distance. This is such a beautiful story, and very inspirational. Thank you so very much for sharing!
Adorable photos...look like they portray another world. Xo Valerie
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Cheers to love in its many many appearances throughout life...
love this photos! ;)
I'm loving everything your mama shares!
That last picture is so amazing...you can see the love for sure.
LOVE. Thanks for sharing!
Oh my goodness- does Toby look like your grandma or what?! So sweet!
Just gorgeous Jo. The passion in the final photo is palpable.
So sweet!!
My heart hurt looking at these special photos. Reminds us how love transends all time. Very special and thank you for sharing xo
Such an adorable couple!! They were so young and so happy!! I was married on Valentine's Day, 5 years today.
Happy Love Day to All!!
great photos! such a lovely love story :) .. *sigh*
xx G
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I can just feel the love pouring out of these photos. These are magnificent! Happy Valentines Day!
just wanted to share a bit of the love my great-grandparents share:
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going on 74 years of marriage and so in love!
awww thats really sweet!
i was looking for that post where you tell how you met alex, and can't find it! if you find it, can you link it for me (us?)
i loved that story, and it's really fitting for valentines!
and btw, happy valentines day! i hope you three have fun!
How sweet and romantic!
woah, these are some pretty racy shots for the forties!! but they are very adorable :) happy love day!
a very sweet story and lovely photos. i love vintage photos even if i don't know the people in them. i collect them- weird, right? i even used some to make my valentines this year.
Oh that's adorable. My grandparents met on a blind date too!
I just shared old family photos about a week ago. The ones of my grandparents are my absolute favorite. They've been married 70 years!!! It seems as if everyone in that generation was beautiful or handsome. Wonderful photos of your grandparents!
This made me so happy. What a sweet story!
Laurren
How romantic!
Romance is appreciated no matter how much time has passed. Thank you for sharing. They are so obviously in love!
glad that u have such beautiful photos of your grandparents. my grandmother seems to hate my grandfather so much. when he's still alive, they lived in seperate houses and they rarely talk to each other. and i only see 1 or 2 family photos which they stay together in a picture. i always feel it's so sweet to see old photos of grandparents in love.
How cute are they? LOVE!
these are lovely!! do you know what the 'H' or 'M' means on her dress in that first pic? I have a vintage scarf with that embroidered on it and would love to know what it might mean!
How wonderful to have such great family photos! They really are worth 1000 words!
Wow! These pictures are classic! Isn't it funny how the photographs seem so much more romantic just because they are old! I'm sure there are years of stories and wisdom to go with them. Thanks for sharing :)
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sweet!!
those are really sweet pictures!
Cute... your grandmother looks like Drew Barrymore....!
i love black and white pictures. they are so cool! thanks for sharing with us.
It's very touching. Old pictures have such a charm !
Such beautiful photos, they look so in love! My grandparents met in the war too, my British Grandad was posted in Italy where he met my Italian Nanna, who he married and brought back to the UK. I always think the pictures from this era look like they're from a film.
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ohhh what lovely pictures :')
Such wonderful and romantic pictures! What a treasure!
what treasures!
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xx
how precious is this!
Such nice pictures. BTW, my husband is a hairdresser and really liked your ponytail demo!
Petra
Hola Jo:
Preciosas fots de tus abuelos... Me recuerdan fotos que và de mis propios abuelos. En esos años todos lucÃan como estrellas de cine... Nostálgico y romántico para San ValentÃn.
Aquà en Argentina este dÃa de los enamorados se está instalando de a poco.
Cariños
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LOVELY PICS!!
These are great! You're so lucky to have them.
What a beautiful couple...Hope you had a wonderful Valentine's Day!!!
xoxo,
Courtney
so romantic :)
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What a beautiful couple! Awesome pictures!
OMG, Toby is just the perfect mix of them both!
Lovely pics by the way, hope you had a sweet Valentine's Day. Besos!
It's lovely with old photos isn't it, you can see how much in love they were..
AMAZING! These pictures are such treasures!
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This is the sweetest post- I have a black/white pic of my grandparents when they first met and it makes me happy every time I look at it:)
LJ
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Oh! My mom's father was an American soldier stationed in England when he met my grandmother, a brit from a tiny village who was working as a nurse in the war. Thanks for the lovely memories, and sweet, sweet photos. You've inspired me to get some photos together for my own Mom xox! Emily
oh my gosh so sweet!!! what GREAT photos!! <3
Such a romantic story!
how lovely :) My husband's grandparents met in the same fashion- a young girl from Wales and an American military man...so romantic!
Truly wonderful!! :)
It's amazing that you have so many old family photos. I wish I had some... my grandparents lived in China {later Malaysia} and I guess photography didn't exist? We don't even know their real birthdate since certificates didn't exist!
I love this. They are a very beautiful couple too. I see the resemblance.
These photos are just darling. I love old photos!
they look so in love!
My grandparents have a similar story! My grandfather was an American pilot stationed in England, and my grandmother was a 17-year-old English girl. He married her 3 months after he met her at a dance, and put her on a boat and sent her to live in South Carolina with his mother until he finished his tour! They were married for over 60 years until they both passed away :)
gorgeous photos. i love going through my family's old pictures
Oh Joanna, these photos are simply divine! What wonderful memories, their love for each other is extremely evident. Thank you for sharing these with us!
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these old photos always seem so glamorous to me... and your grandparents look so in love and just totally caught up with each other. so cute!!
They look so in love... This is what I strive for. Wonderful story, wonderful photos!
This is beautiful. Makes me want to get out my grandparents photos
:)
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These are just adorable!!! How cute!
oh my lands! love, love, love these, jo♥ thanks so much for sharing. what a sweet, sweet and inspiring little story! how adorable that they met on valentine's day IN england AND got married that same year:)
xoxoxo
-rachel
Luv those beautiful photographs of your grandparents. What a loving couple. Thanks for sharing.
Joanna, these pictures make me want to cry they're so sweet! I am such a sucker for pictures from that era...especially when the man is in uniform. I have a book called War Letters, and I once cried for two weeks for a man who had been dead about 50 years. He was a young soldier from NY, crazy in love, and was killed in action. I could cry thinking about him now. Anyway, I see the same sweetness in your grandparents' eyes, and it makes me misty. Thanks for sharing.
Great photos. You can tell how into each other they are--the tension is palpable! Good for them.
I don't have time to read through all 117 comments, so I'm very sorry if someone has already pointed this out, but WOW you look just like your grandfather!
This is such a completely perfect love story. Thanks for sharing this amazing photos!
So sweet! What a lovely gift from your mother. A beautiful, happy couple! ; )
I really like that kind of pictures, your granny seems to be sooo sweet! I also asked my granmother to send me pictures of them, the result is always so great.
oh wow! beautiful story.
so romantic! I love stories of how grandparents met : )
a beautiful love !
My heart was in a very similar place this Valentine's Day! http://lespommesdeterre.blogspot.com/2011/02/me-and-bob.html
I absolutley love these old photos. You really can't help but smile. It's proof that true love exists. Thanks for sharing these!
wow what a hunky couple! last photo is quite steamy! Thanks for sharing!
Joanna - the background to these photographs looks very familiar. I'm sure it's Torquay in the South West of England.
amazing!!!!
these are so special, i feel weepy and happy looking at them!
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