Couple Get Wedding Photos After 27 Years
Karen and Mark Cline were teenagers when they got married and didn't have $150 to pay a photographer for their wedding photos.
Karen Cline looks through the wedding album she received 27 years after tying the knot.
But now they've got the pictures, just in time for their 27th anniversary on Thursday.
Their photographer located Karen Cline last week at the diner where she works and surprised her with a photo album.
'About a month ago, I was just cleaning out some of my old things and I found it,' said photographer Jim Wagner, who's now 80. 'I knew she didn't have any money back then, and I just thought she might like to have it.'
It was too much for Karen Cline.
'I just stood there and cried and cried and hugged him,' she said, tearing up again as she described their meeting.
She said she was 18 at the time, and felt heartsick because she and her husband, who was 19, couldn't afford to pay Wagner. Instead, all they have had was a single photo that someone else took, of her walking down the aisle.
Wagner said he was able to track down Karen Cline after running into her stepfather a few weeks ago. He said she immediately wrote him a check for $150.
Karen Cline looks through the wedding album she received 27 years after tying the knot.
But now they've got the pictures, just in time for their 27th anniversary on Thursday.
Their photographer located Karen Cline last week at the diner where she works and surprised her with a photo album.
'About a month ago, I was just cleaning out some of my old things and I found it,' said photographer Jim Wagner, who's now 80. 'I knew she didn't have any money back then, and I just thought she might like to have it.'
It was too much for Karen Cline.
'I just stood there and cried and cried and hugged him,' she said, tearing up again as she described their meeting.
She said she was 18 at the time, and felt heartsick because she and her husband, who was 19, couldn't afford to pay Wagner. Instead, all they have had was a single photo that someone else took, of her walking down the aisle.
Wagner said he was able to track down Karen Cline after running into her stepfather a few weeks ago. He said she immediately wrote him a check for $150.
