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Category: Vintage Style

My 1940-1950′s Swing Dancing Vintage Wedding-Part 2: The Accessories

I had so many awesome accessories for my wedding that I felt that they needed their own post to do them justice (If you would like to see the dress, please visit my earlier post) So here goes….

My Vintage Wedding Accessories

The Vintage Wedding Shoes-My Something Blue

My shoes for the wedding are the first thing I purchased (even before my dress) and they really set the tone for the colour scheme for my wedding. They are Irregular Choice shoes and I found them in Ireland while on vacation and fell in love right away. I mean really…look at them…how could you not??? Plus I loved that it had a scottie dog on them as my husband parents are from Scotland and it made the shoes even more special.

Irregular Choice shoes in blue with scottie dog, hearts and leash connecting the shoes in a theme. Used at a vintage style wedding.
Irregular choice shoes, brooch bouquet

The only bummer part about my shoes, was that about a month before my wedding I was dancing and twisted my ankle pretty bad. By the time I got married I could only wear the shoes down the aisles and for some pictures 🙁

My Vintage Wedding Bouquet

I was determined NOT to have a lot of real flowers at my wedding (to save money) and so I looked on the internet for “non flower” bouquet inspirations and I stumbled upon several photos of “vintage brooch bouquets”. I loved this idea but after looking at the price to buy one (way out of my budget), I gave up the idea of ever getting one. Until a friend of mine and the wife of my husbands best friend/best man, Brooke told me she would like to make it for my wedding. I cried after reading the email and said yes right away! Here is her hard work (below and above)….

vintage brooch bouquet using a collection of vintage brooches. Seen at a vintage style wedding for the Vintage Inn Blog.

Brooke spent a few months looking for these vintage brooches and I’m honestly still blown away at how beautiful it is every time I pass by it on display in my livingroom.

My Vintage Hair and Makeup (the Ultimate Accessory)

I was fortunate to stumble upon (via the land of the internet), Blonde Moxie  aka Larissa the Vintage Hair & Makeup queen 🙂 She did an amazing job making my wish come true to look like a 1950’s pin-up.

Fun side note: We became friends after this and I was even invited to her wedding a few years later.

1950's wedding hair and makeup. 1950s vintage style hair as seen on Liz from the Vintage Inn Blog on her wedding day.

My necklace above is 1950’s vintage as well from a great Etsy seller called “Love in the Afternoon“. I actually purchased the necklace at a vintage fair that was held here in Toronto and the ladies working the booth were so nice and helpful and their selection and prices were wonderful.

My Veil and Earrings

My bridal veil is not vintage but it came from “Fancy Bridal New York (no longer in business as of March 2022)” where I purchased my wedding dress. My earrings were my grandmothers and were my “something borrowed”. Here is another shot of the hair as well…sigh I wish I could repeat this look on my own.

Wedding bridal veil as seen on a 1950s style bride-Liz from the Vintage Inn Blog.

My Vintage Fur Coat

My fur coat is very special to me as it belonged to my Grandmother (my mom’s mother) also named “Elizabeth” who passed away only a year before I was born.  The jacket is from the 1950’s and it even has her initials in the inside (see below pic, on the right side).

Vintage Style wedding photo featuring the bride and groom. Bride is wearing a 1950s fur coat from her grandmother and the groom is in a kilt. Bride is also carrying a brooch bouquet.

My Vintage Gloves (seen above)

1950’s vintage gloves from a favorite Queen St. West Vintage shop called “The Painted Table” (1716 Queen St. West, Toronto).

My Vintage Brooch

Another 1950’s vintage find is from a dear friend who owns her own vintage online store called 20thcVintageMedley (lots of new product currently on Etsy-March 2023 update). I wore it as you can see below on my vintage ribbon that was around my waist.

1950s vintage brooch

After the Wedding” Hair Fascinator

After I got married, I changed out of my veil and put on the most darling hair flower. If you are reading my blog then you know that I’m obsessed with hair flowers so it only made sense that I wore one for my wedding. The flower is from “Sara Gabriel Veiling & Headpieces” and I actually purchased it at a bridal salon called “Gabriella New York” in NYC because I wanted to see the pieces in person and since it was Sara Gabriels flag-ship store they had many items out on display.

Note….Shopping at Gabriella was AWESOME! They treated me like I was buying one of their $5000 dresses as opposed to a $200 hair piece. “Campbell, with a “C” as he made it clear when we met lol! helped me chose my hair piece and he was funny and helpful and made me want to stay and hang out for the rest of the day at the salon 🙂 Amazing experience there, loved it.

After purchase it was sent away to be created just for me and then weeks later it showed back up at Gabriella (I chose to pick it up there when I went back from my dress fitting at Fancy) in a beautiful box with a ribbon and my name on it. Inside there was a handwritten note thanking me for my purchase and they wished for me to have a wonderful wedding day…how nice! Here is my purchase…

1950's wedding hair accessories-vintage style hair fascinator.

Vintage Handkerchief

I don’t have a picture of this item 🙁 But I was carrying a 1950’s handkerchief with a bride on it, in my dress pocket.

So there you have it, all my accessories for the wedding. Now you see why I needed to create its own post?

Further Reading:

My 1940 / 1950’s Swing Dancing Vintage Wedding-Part 1: The Dress

Overview of my 1940s / 1950s Vintage Style Wedding

Liz

Photo Credit: Rizwan Photography  RIZWANDARPHOTOGRAPHY@GMAIL.COM

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My 1940 / 1950’s Swing Dancing Vintage Wedding-Part 1: The Dress

Hi Everyone,

I thought I would share my April 28th, 2012 vintage inspired wedding in Toronto, Canada with you 🙂

Vintage Wedding at the St. Lawrence Hall in Toronto, Canada. Groom is wearing a kilt, the bride a Vintage Style Wedding dress.
Source: RIZWANDARPHOTOGRAPHY

My Vintage 1940s / 1950s Wedding

The wedding & reception was held at this amazing hall in Toronto called “The St. Lawrence Hall“. The hall was built-in 1850 as a meeting place for public gatherings, concerts and exhibits and in the 1960’s was designated a “national historic site“. So basically we were getting married in a venue with a lot of history and character (you will see pics of the inside over my next couple of blog posts).

St. Lawrence Hall in Toronto Canada.

The Vintage Wedding Theme

The idea behind my wedding was to bring the activity that brought my husband and I together (Swing dancing aka Lindy hop-see us dancing together below) and my love for 1940’s-1950’s vintage into one budget friendly DIY wedding.

Lindy hoppers from Toronto dancing in Barcelona on the street.
Lindy Hopping on the streets of Barcelona Spain

My Vintage Style Wedding Dress

It was very important to me that my wedding dress reflect who I was as a person and that meant it had to be a 1950’s tea-length gown. I was going to go vintage but then I stumbled upon the designer “Fancy of New York (No longer in business as of March 2022)” and the dresses were exactly what I was looking for, so I hopped on a plane and flew to NYC to pick my dress. The experience was wonderful and I could go on and on about how awesome Fancy is, but I don’t have time so I will just say that you need to buy your dress there if you’re in the market because you will not be disappointed 🙂

Dress details: The dress came with a crinoline and sash of which I could pick the colours for. The fabric of the sash is actually “vintage ribbon” from a supplier that I was told was top-secret (bummer lol). The crinoline has a matching red ribbon sewn on the bottom so that when I danced you just saw a hint of red when I spun (which I LOVED). The back was a scoop back (another fav of mine) and the dress had POCKETS!!!! eeekkkk!! yes pockets!!!

FUN HISTORICAL NOTE: The dress is actually an early 1960s reproduction of the designers mothers engagement dress (I think it was that occassion).

Here is the dress…

1950s / Early 1960s Tea Length Wedding dress with pockets from Fancy NY Bridal. Pretty 1950s wedding inspiration.

1950s early 1960s vintage style wedding dress with scoop back as seen on the vintage inn blog.
This was the “reveal” moment that we did before the wedding.
1950s / Early 1960s Tea Length Wedding dress with pockets from Fancy NY Bridal. The Bride is wearing a vintage fur coat belonging to her gradmother. Pretty 1950s wedding inspiration.

They were filming a commercial in the background,hence the camera stuff in the background of pic lol

1950s / Early 1960s Tea Length Wedding dress with pockets and crinoline with red ribbon on the edge from Fancy NY Bridal. Pretty 1950s wedding inspiration.

See Pockets!!! yay! My bridesmaids in their cute red and white polka dot dresses that I had to track down after Mod Cloth sold out of them. I ended up finding them in the UK after an online hunt that took a couple of hours. It was worth it I was happy with how pretty that looked.

1950s vintage wedding style. Bride with her bridesmaid in 1950s style wedding dress and bridesmaid dresses.

Here is a pic of the inside of the St. Lawrence Hall and my dress (and another pic of my handsome Scottish husband).

St. Lawrence Hall in Toronto hosting a vintage 1950s wedding ceremony. The image features the bride and the groom and their wedding party.

For more content on my vintage wedding check out my posts on my “vintage wedding accessories“and an “overview

Liz

Photo Credit: Rizwan Photography  RIZWANDARPHOTOGRAPHY@GMAIL.COM