Thanks to Facebook, the couple found their wedding video again after 57 years

Their love has stood the test of time.

An Australian couple who lost their wedding video got it back after 57 years.

Aileen Turnbull from Brisbane married her husband Bill in Scotland in 1967 and shortly after their wedding they borrowed a projector to watch footage of her leaving church on her big day.

However, the newlyweds left the film in the projector and never saw it again – until Turnbull noticed a still from the lost video while scrolling through Facebook.

“I was browsing Facebook and came across this wedding photo. My husband was sitting here, I turned to him and said, 'There's our wedding photo,'” Turnbull, now 77, told BBC Scotland.

The Facebook photo was posted to an Australian Aboriginal group by Terry Cheyne from Scotland – whose uncle was the man who lent the couple their projector more than five decades ago.

Cheyne – who has since sent the lovebirds a link to view the footage – had kept some of his film reels at his uncle's house during his time in the Royal Navy.

“One day he decided to move, so I got my films back. I kept them in my attic for a long time. And then I decided to transfer it to DVD because I didn't have a projector,” he told the outlet.

“The first film that was on the DVD was a mysterious, unknown film for me. It was clearly a wedding at Mastrick Church. I saw it many times, I didn’t know anyone.”

Turnbull said it was “surreal” to watch.

“It just seems strange to me to see my mom and dad not just in a photo, but them actually moving and walking,” she told the outlet.

“And my husband, he saw his grandmother and his grandfather, who was 100 years old when he died. It was just incredible to look back and see those people, I still can’t really believe it.”