For this week’s nostalgia, we have decided to do look back at some wedding photos from decades gone by.

We have delved deep into Reading Museum's archives to share photos of weddings held in the town between 1940 and 1950.

Reading Museum has shared interesting insight into Berkshire weddings from many years ago, particularly around the time of the war.

A spokesperson from the museum wrote: "Wedding photographs and wedding reports may be few and far between in local newspapers today, but during 1938 to 1964, the period covered by these images, they were a standard feature of every issue of the Berkshire Chronicle."

Reading Museum has shared interesting data regarding weddings in the wartime era.

"The outbreak of the Second World War caused changes to the timing, location and lavishness of wedding plans. This was a matter of practicalities and also perhaps a sense of keeping things simple and quiet at such distressing times", the museum said.

Compared with 361,768 in 1938, there were 439,694 marriages in England and Wales in 1939 and 470,549 in 1940.

The museum explains how the Second World War affected wedding attire: "As the war continued in 1941, rationing and clothing coupons were introduced on top of price rises in clothes and fabric, therefore acquiring dresses for the bride and her bridesmaids became problematic.

"Wedding dresses became recyclable and it became popular to marry in a dress which could be worn again."

The museum said that it was common to see service men and women get married in uniform as a sign of patriotism and respect.

Most weddings took place in local churches around Reading such as St Lawrence’s and the Church of English Martyrs.

Register Office weddings however, were less popular. Reading’s Register Office used to be on Thorn Street, opposite the Penta Hotel on Oxford Road.