Last night UTV reported on how a newly married couple has been left devastated by the theft of their wedding photos from their photographer's home in north Belfast.

The couple saved for two years for their wedding day which they estimated cost £10,000.

They should now be enjoying their honeymoon - a two-night stay in Newcastle, Co Down - but it has been overshadowed by the burglary which happened the next night after the wedding.

While the couple does have a video of their wedding day, it was the wedding photos they were most excited about.

The couple told UTV "Everyone gets to have a wedding album and that's what we wanted as well. We just wanted to have a wedding album and something to pass on to our children,"

While they are upset by what has happened, they are more concerned about their Belfast based wedding photographer who they say did an amazing job.

Among the camera equipment taken, which has been valued at about £20,000, was the memory card containing the wedding photographs.

Appealing directly to those behind the burglary the couple described how the wedding had been the couple's only chance to get all their families together.

"Please, please, if you can just hand the memory disk in to someone so we can get our photos and our photo album made up, that's all we ask."

For many wedding couples out there this is probably one scenario that most have never considered ‘the theft of their wedding photos’.

Wedding photographers across Northern Ireland and Ireland should take heed of this experience and ensure that all wedding photos are backed up in more than one place so that couples photos are secured should such an incident happen.

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