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Couple's picture-perfect nuptials ruined by theft of memory cards

By: Kevin Rollason

Posted: 06/16/2009 1:00 AM | Comments: 0 (including replies)

BORIS.MINKEVICH@FREEPRESS.MB.CA Joanne and Richard Gautron are offering a reward for the return of their wedding photos. (BORIS MINKEVICH)

JOANNE and Richard Gautron's wedding was a dream -- but the photographs have turned into a nightmare.

Less than a week after the happy day, thieves broke into the wedding photographer's home and made off with a digital camera, the memory cards containing hundreds of their wedding photos and the laptop computer containing back-up photographs.

Joanne and her photographer, Christine Tessier, hope someone comes forward and returns the memory cards.

"They don't mean anything to whoever has them, but they mean the world to us," Joanne said on Monday.

"This is something that is supposed to happen to other people and you read about it and say that's too bad.

"It's not the end of the world but it would be really, really great to have them back."

Joanne said it's great that family and friends have come forward with their own snapshots but they don't have copies of everything.

The couple married in St. Pierre Jolys on June 6 and spent three hours getting their wedding photos taken on the site of the community's annual maple syrup festival.

Last Friday, Tessier, the Winnipeg wedding photographer, returned home and discovered her house had been broken into.

Tessier later found that three other nearby homes had also been targeted by thieves.

Tessier said she doesn't care if she ever gets back the camera -- she just wants the photos.

"It's turning my stomach upside down," she said. "The pictures are great. I was so looking forward to giving them to her. I'm the only one who knows how great they are."

Tessier and the Gautrons are offering a $500 reward -- no questions asked -- for the safe return of the memory cards or the laptop computer with the backup photos.

The photos can be turned in to any Winnipeg police station or the Winnipeg Free Press.

"If you have a good heart, you'll realize this is a day that was taken from them," Tessier said.

"They just have their memories now."

kevin.rollason@freepress.mb.ca

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition June 16, 2009 A5

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