For this week’s Bygones, we shine the spotlight on couples who tied the knot in Reading in 1982 and were featured in the Chronicle.

Twenty couples were featured in the April 2 edition that year. We will feature 10 this week and 10 next week.

Geoffrey Speake, from Reading, married Judy Francis, from Woodcote at Reading Register Office, as did Christopher Kevin Poulter and Jacqueline Ann Horwood, both from Southcote.

Geoffrey William Critchfield tied the knot with Christine Elizabeth MacDonald, from Wokingham, at the United Reformed Church. The bride was given away by her father and wore a white Laura Ashley dress and flowers as her headdress.

Colin Roger Newman, from Earley, and Lorraine Gilkerson, from Tilehurst, got married at St Michael’s Church, Tilehurst, while Reading Register Office also hosted the wedding of Dean Alexander Houston and Shelly Ann Jinks, both from Reading.

Stephen Reynolds, from Reading, got married to Lynne Brant, from Shinfield, at St Barnabas Church, Reading. The bride was given away by her father. Carol Giles was the bridesmaid and Bernie Proctor was the best man.

Three more weddings took place at Reading Register office – those of John Muir Brown, from Purley, and Michele Glenda Hodder, from Tilehurst, Barry Robert Hawkins, from Wokingham, and Angela Doreen Drake, from Reading, and Frederick John Pope and Susan Wendy Norriss, both from Woodley.

Finally, St Laurence’s Church, in Tidmarsh, played host to the wedding of Peter Ian Collinson, from Earley, who married Valerie Anne Murby, from Tidmarsh. The bride was given away by her father, Brian Murby, and attended by her sisters Jennifer and Paula, as well as Karen Jenkins and Jane Jerrome. Mark and Christopher Jerrome were pageboys, while Neal Hawkins was the best man.