Adorable couple share the cute photo booth pictures they’ve taken every year for 16 YEARS – from dating as youngsters to having kids of their own

AN ADORABLE couple have charted their relationships from their early awkward first dates to becoming a family of four after taking photobooth pictures together every year for 16 years.

Giles Paley-Phillips, 39, and his now wife, Michelle, 35, decided to document their love using the machines in 2000.

And since then the couple from Seaford in East Sussex, have squeezed into a booth every year - and eventually had to find room for their two children.

The snaps show how the young beaming couple in the first flushes of love transformed into the complete family of four.

Giles, now a children's author, was 23 and with bleached hair when he and 18-year-old Michelle went into a booth in Brighton train station after having dated for a few weeks.

They had grown up in the same small town and known each other as children but had recently bumped into one another again.

From then, their cute pictures show changing styles and a greying of the hair - but the smiles are a constant, with the most recent taken just before Christmas.

Two years after their first picture together, Giles and Michelle, now a designer and store planner, were able to appear as a married couple.

But Giles says that 2006's image was a "momentous photobooth moment" as Michelle was three months pregnant.

He explained: "She had terrible morning sickness that day. I think we both knew life would never be the same again."

However, first child Elijah would only appear in the photo two years later because, in 2007, the couple snuck into a booth on their first night alone since his birth.

And by the 2010 snap, the picture frame was full as youngest son Sonny was able to join the family portrait.

Giles said: "The photobooth was in a post office and I remember trying to squeeze two growing children into the booth and realising there would be less and less space each year as they got bigger and that one day they would be grown men like me."

By 2012, the effects of having two energetic young sons was also visible, as Giles says he finally let his grey hair come through.

The family say they will continue the tradition as Eli, 10 and Sonny, eight, grow up although Giles added: "It's getting harder to find photo booths, they are becoming more scarce."

Last month we revealed the poignant photos showing the man who took a Polaroid every day for 18 years until the day he died of cancer at just 41.