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Category: Wedding

“The Wedding Gift That Keeps on Giving”- Vintage Ads for the Future Bride

Today is my husband and I’s 4 year wedding anniversary. Happy Anniversary to the most wonderful man on earth, who I know reads my blog when I remind him (Right now as he reads this I can hear him say “I read it without you telling me too”. Okay dear.. lol!). 4 years has gone by so fast and it feels like just yesterday we were walking down the aisle towards each other to begin our life together. Jay is the love of my life and I’m very lucky to have him in my life (See our vintage wedding HERE).

Okay okay! enough with the romance 🙂 Time for my blog post.

Keeping with the Wedding theme, I wanted to share some vintage ads from the 1940s & 1950’s that would have been directed right at the future bride. Keeping in mind that we are talking about a different time here, so the ads will feature mostly domestic items and outdated advertising.

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Vintage Ads for the Future Bride -1940s & 1950s

1940s Vintage Ad: First up to ensure you even get married, you need to wash with ‘Woodbury Soap’, like our Toronto bride has done in the ad below.

1945 Woodbury Soap Bridal Kiss Advertisement featuring a bride and her Canadian Soldier.
Source: Etsy

Or maybe Camay is more your kind of soap. “Watch you skin grow lovelier with your first cake of Camay!”

1940s Vintage Camay Ad-1940s Beauty ad featuring an illustration of a 1940s Bride throwing her bouquet to her bridesmaids.

This pre-WWII ad invites young brides or brides-to-be to consider their sheet selection carefully before guests critique their home.

1940s vintage ad for sheets featuring a bride in her wedding dress and 1940s hairstyle.
Source: Etsy

“Shower the bride with PYREX Ware!” 1950s Vintage ad.

1950s vintage ad: Pyrex magazine ad from the 1950s. Shower the bride with Pyrex!
Source: Flickr

Silverware is a MUST purchase for the future brides home in 1949.

1940s Vintage ad: 1949 Community Silverplate Silverware vintage ad featuring a 1940s bride.
Source: Etsy

For the young lady with a dream! 1945 Holmes Edwards Sterling Ad.

1940s Vintage ad: 1945 Holmes Edwards Sterling Ad - 1940s Engaged Bride to Be
Source: Etsy

Set for a lifetime with Melmac! “Lucky Bride and Lucky Bridegroom too”. 1940s vintage ad.

1940s Melmac vintage ad featuring a young bride opening up her wedding present and receiving Melmac dishes.
Source: eBay

Lastly lets not forget about the ads that are about your look for that special day.

The 1950s Wedding Dress is stunning! 1956 Alexandrine ad.

1950s Vintage ad: 1956 Alexandrine ad featuring a bride wearing a 1950s wedding gown.
Source: Flickr

The Ring. “Your Keepsake……forever”.

1950 ad for wedding ring featuring an illustration of a bride and groom in their wedding outfits.
Source: pzrservices.typepad

The Scent-1948 Avon Comestics Ad.

1940s Vintage Ad: 1948 avon cosmetics magazine ad featuring an illustration of a 1940s Bride in her 1940s Wedding dress.
Source: Flickr

The lipstick that stays married to your lips. THINK PINK! 1950s vintage ad.

1950s vintage lipstick ad for pink lipstick featuring a bride in her 1950s wedding dress being carried by her groom.

And our last ad…. the ultimate guide for every future bride in the 1950s….Fuller Brush Presents: ‘What every bride should know’

Ohhhh what do you think it said inside?

1950s vintage ad: 1950’s Fuller Brush advertisement -'What every bride should know'. Ad features a mother talking to her daughter who is in a 1950s wedding dress.
Source: Tumblr

As you can see, it truly was a different time when these ads were created, and I’m very glad personally that these ads and the futures of young ladies today is very different.

Have a wonderful day friends!

FURTHER READING:


Vintage Wedding Dress Shopping: I have created a collection of Vintage Wedding Dresses on Etsy that is perfect for one’s upcoming wedding (updated monthly).


Liz

Vintage Wedding Anniversary Cards From The 1940s & 1950s

April 28th….My Wedding Anniversary! So for today I thought I would share some images of cute wedding anniversary cards that a couple like myself and my husband would have gotten on our special day. Enjoy!


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1950s Vintage wedding anniversary card

Vintage Wedding Anniversary Cards – 1940s & 1950s

This below card is cute but I’m not 100% sure why the morning coffee is wishing them a Happy Anniversary. Most likely the answer was inside but we will never know now so we just have to make a guess. -1950s-

1950s wedding anniversary vintage card

For the Tall Couple on their Anniversary (Jay and I!)

Vintage Wedding Anniversary Card featuring an illustration of two giraffes hugging
Source: Fashion Cloud

This 1950s Annivesary card pokes fun at the fact that everything is always rosy and wonderful in a marriage.

Anniversary Card to Husband | Vintage 1940s 1950s
Anniversary Card to Husband | Vintage 1940s 1950s

Source: Etsy

A very unique and adorable vintage anniversary card featuring a Barbershop Quartet. Printed in the U.S.A. by A Novo Laugh card company. 1940s / 1950s (avail as of March 29th 2022 HERE).

1940s 1950s vintage wedding anniversary card illustration featuring a barbershop quartet
1940s 1950s vintage wedding anniversary card illustration featuring a barbershop quartet
1940s 1950s vintage wedding anniversary card illustration featuring a barbershop quartet

Source: Etsy

From Giraffes to Eggs, the adorable cards keep on coming. -1950s-

1950s wedding anniversary vintage card
Source: Flickr-Thomas Friel

I would love to have her 1950s outfit for my anniversary dinner tonight, it’s pretty fantastic.

1950s Vintage wedding anniversary card fashionable outfit

1950s vintage wedding anniversary card featuring two cool cats dancing together. Litho printed in the USA by the Novo Laugh card company (avail as of March 29th, 2022 HERE).

1950s Vintage Wedding Anniversary card featuring an illustration of 2 cats dancing together representing husband and wife.
1950s vintage wedding anniversary card featuring mid-century typography.
1950s vintage wedding anniversary card featuring an illustration of cats married to each other.

Source: Etsy

Great Jacket Mister Hubby! -1950s-

1950s Vintage wedding anniversary card

Keeping with the stylish card theme, the best 1950s matching couple EVER! Can I have her hat?

1950s wedding anniversary vintage card
Source: Flickr-Heather David

The couple in this next card are so young but I have to remember that it was a different time and getting married at 18 was what you did. -1940s-

1940s vintage wedding anniversary card
Source: Flickr-Thomas Friel

And last but not least, my favorite anniversary card from husband to wife. -1940s / Early 1950s-

1950s Vintage wedding anniversary card
Source: Pixgood

AND friends if you at all curious about what my wedding looked like, I did a few posts that can be found starting HERE.

FURTHER READING: Collection of Vintage Wedding Blogs Posts on various topics (1920s-1960s)


Vintage Wedding Dress Shopping: I have created a collection of Vintage Wedding Dresses on Etsy that is perfect for one’s upcoming wedding (updated monthly).


Liz 🙂