Vintage Brides

All things vintage brides and weddings, portraits, vintage bridal fashion, wedding related ephemera - all eras. Hashtag crazy! Search by decade, theme, item. Enjoy! (p.s. after 2-3 years of obsessive posting here, I'm in a passive upkeep mode as of late. Will try to post submissions from time to time.)

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Sammy Davis Jr. and May Britt on their wedding day on November 13, 1960.

Photos by David Sutton

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An anonymous submission: My Great Grandparents Wedding Photo 1905 Dexter Arthur Brown and Omie Davis Burrows were married in Williamsburg County, South Carolina.

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Wedding party, Virginia, 1941

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Joan Crawford in The Bride Wore Red, 1937

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Brad Hall married on July 25, 1987. 

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A submission from http://nuggetsarahtrudeau.tumblr.com:

My Grandparents’ Wedding Party.

Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, Indonesia (1965)

Quite an Idyllic picture portraying not just the matrimony of two souls, but the gathering of tight-knit communities that presented throughout most Indonesian villages around this time, where families and friends lived closed by each other. 

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An email submission from Shari:

July 28, 1976 ~ Wedding of A1C (Airman 1st Class) Donald W. & Shari Davenport. Family photo of Groom’s parents and oldest younger brother, the Best Man (all from Illinois) with the Groom and Bride; and the Bride’s parents.

Location ~ Newport News City Park, Newport News, VA. 

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An email submission from Neal: 

LariAnn and I went out on a couple of dates about a year after I got out of the Navy.  Dixon was her maiden name. She was really a nice person to know, but I was somewhat stupid back then. I never followed-up with her. Our big date was when we went to the Copacabana in NYC and saw the newly-formed group,The Supremes (sans Diana Ross).  This was in 1966!  Great times back then.  I just took a shot and Googled Bride’s Magazine for Aug/Sep 1966 today and viola, there she was.  My friend called me back then to let me know that she was on the cover and the memory just crept back in recently. I never spoke with her again. Hope she had a happy life!  Neal O'Connor.

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A submission from SweetCharr: My Great Aunt Peggy and Great Uncle Ray 1960s

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Edie and Thea: A Very Long Engagement (2009)

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Rest in peace Edie Windsor (1929-2017).

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“My parents recently celebrated their 40th Anniversary, 1975.”

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October 1973. ‘For the traditionalist, the heirloom look of a Victorian dress in delicate white-on-white striped satin.’

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My parents on their wedding day on June 16, 1984 (Virginia, US)

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Submission: My maternal great-grandparents, Ozene & Edith; january 26, 1946

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Submission: My maternal 2nd great-grandparents, Sudie & Birgie; May 24, 1916

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The Wedding Party – A.1.C. Donald W. & Shari (Flythe) Davenport; Newport News City Park, Newport News, VA., Wednesday, July 28, 1976, 6:30P.M. 

Left – Right -> Bridesmaid (Bride’s Cousin) Teresa G., Best Man (Groom’s Oldest Younger Brother) Kent D., Groom, Bride; Matron of Honor (Bride’s Best Friend From High School) Sheryl B.

The ladies - Bridesmaid and Matron of Honor - made (or had made) their dresses from Simplicity pattern #6888, from flock printed floral polyester fabric; (All patterns, fabrics, notions furnished by the Bride.) Color matched garden hats purchased from J.C. Penney’s store, local mall location.

Flowers for bridal party furnished by the Bride (who paid for the materials) and the Bride’s mother, who completed the work to make the poured  ceramic baskets, which were stained and glazed to resemble hand woven straw baskets, and filled with dried flower arrangements, color-coordinated to the dresses for the Attendants, and to coordinate with the Groom’s shirt pattern colors for the Bride.