DVD buyer finds solution to wedding picture puzzle

A Dick Smith shopper who discovered private wedding photos on a "blank" DVD has been contacted by the groom.

Masterton woman Catherine Cockeram said she bought a five-pack of DVDs from Masterton's Dick Smith store a couple of weeks ago.

But when about to copy her own photographs on to one of the disks she discovered it contained 40 photographs of a wedding. It appeared to have been held in the 60s, in Christchurch.

The DVD also had photos of what appeared to be the couple's honeymoon, or first home.

Mrs Cockeram approached the Wairarapa Times-Age last week, hoping to reunite the DVD with its owner.

After the article went to print, on Saturday, she received a phone call from the groom, who lived in Greytown.

She said she didn't catch his name, but he had invited her round to meet him and his wife, which she politely declined.

"He was on holiday in Hawke's Bay. One of his relatives who lives in Auckland rang him and said 'your photos are in the paper'. He was a really nice man and it was nice to get a resolution."

Mrs Cockeram learned the couple had scans of the original photos done for their 50th wedding anniversary last year.

"They must have had issues with the DVD, so they took it back to Dick Smith ... and they [Dick Smith] must have got mixed up. So it must have been old stock they put out and put a security tag on it, " she said.

Mrs Cockeram destroyed the photos after the man said they had numerous copies.

The DVDs were packaged in a cardboard slip. They cost $7.50, with nothing to indicate they were used goods.