This photo, one of many in a misplaced wedding album of Doug and Belinda Amend that was found in a rental unit in Lawrence, was recognized by Nancy Sanchez, Lawrence, who is the sister of the groom. The couple now live in Augusta, and the album will be returned to them.

The last thing Nancy Sanchez expected to see when she looked at Thursday’s Journal-World was a wedding picture of her brother and sister-in-law.

After all, Doug and Belinda Amend were married in Kansas University’s Danforth Chapel almost 15 years ago, on Dec. 28, 1991.

“I thought, ‘Oh my goodness,'” Sanchez, of Lawrence, said of her reaction when she saw the photo and the story about a mystery wedding album found a few years ago by a former property manager.

Sanchez called the Amends, who are still happily married and living in Augusta. She also called her sister, Janet Fisher, a dental assistant department head at the Salina Area Technical School and told her. Fisher called up the Journal-World Web site and read the story.

The album, which had no identification on any of its photographs, was found by Andrea Williams, who used to manage several rental properties in Lawrence. She had put the album away, thinking someone would claim it and forgot about it until recently. She called the Journal-World for help finding the album’s owner.

Williams thought the album was inadvertently left behind by a previous renter, and that is probably what happened, Doug Amend said. His daughter, Amanda, had been a KU student and lived in an apartment on 25th Street for a while. About two years ago she moved into a house and now is in Chicago. He thinks the album was his daughter’s.

“Somewhere along the line it got misplaced,” Amend said, adding that he doesn’t think anybody knew the album was missing.

Amend said he and Belinda have their own wedding album and it was never lost.

Amend, a minister, and his wife have two daughters and a son.

Williams and her husband, Greg Sanders, are used to finding unusual things left behind by others. Sanders owns Rhino Linings of Lawrence but has a penchant for attending auctions, his wife said. He is not a part-time auctioneer as was reported in Thursday’s Journal-World.

Williams will turn the album over to Sanchez.

“I think this is wonderful,” Williams said. “I’m so glad they are going to get it back.”