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I had a church wedding, and I just bought a costume because I thought well I could use that afterwards 鈥� but if you buy a white dress you can鈥檛 use it again, you鈥檇 just have to put it in the wardrobe, and I couldn鈥檛 afford to waste the coupons.

I had to go and collect my own flowers on the morning of my wedding as Mum couldn鈥檛 do it. We all had flowers.

All my sisters came, my parents and my three brothers too. The wedding presents weren鈥檛 anything like you get now though, but we didn鈥檛 expect too much.

From then on, I went to live at my sister Lily鈥檚 house. We stayed there until Walter got called up. We married in the October and he got called up in the December.

This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War site by Becky Barugh of the 大象传媒 Radio Shropshire CSV Action Desk on behalf of Dorothy Cottis and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

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