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Tag: 1950s bride


Apr
2018

Vintage Photos: The 1950’s Bride

categories: 1950's, vintage images, Vintage Photo Tuesday

Spring is here and that means wedding season is upon us. So I thought for Vintage Photo Tuesday that I would share some real life 1950’s inspiration for future brides and for those who just love looking at vintage photos (like many of my lovely readers).

Enjoy!

Disclosure: Some of the links on my blog from Etsy & eBay, are Affiliate Links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase. 

Palladium wedding rings ad from the 1950s featuring a young woman catching the brides bouquet
Source: Pinterest

1950’s Vintage Photos of a 1950’s Bride & Her Wedding

The bride and her bridesmaids in the most beautiful gowns. LIKE WOW! And look at the hair? LOVE! I do think this is more late 1940s maybe early 1950s photo from the hairstyles & dress styles (the image is labeled 1950s).

Photo of late 1940s / Early 1950s Bride with Two Bridesmaids. The Vintage Wedding Photo features a stunning 1950s Wedding dress & 1950s Bridesmaid dresses.
Source: Etsy

In my vintage photo travels, I have never seen a 1950’s wedding dress with such an incredible scalloped neckline before. So very different, and I love it!

1950s Vintage Wedding Photo: Vintage photo of a 1950s bride in her wedding dress with scalloped neckline
Source: Etsy

1950s bride at her wedding in Oakland, California. Her wedding dress is absolutely stunning! Look at at the lace? WOW!

1950s vintage image of a young Black woman in her 1950s wedding dress on her wedding day.

Source: eBay

A very stylish bride and groom (check out the grooms tie). Oh and that bouquet must of weighed a ton!

1950s Vintage Wedding Photo: 1950s bride and groom vintage photo. Bride is wearing a tea length wedding dress and short veil.
Source: Etsy

The most fashionable family/friends award goes to this brides entourage! High fives all around to keeping up with our bride. Plus we have another very different wedding gown. Almost looks like a pinafore style from what I can see (do you agree?).

1950s Vintage Wedding Photo: 1950s bride on her wedding day, glowing surrounded by her ladies vintage photo
Source: Etsy

1950s Bride & Groom posing in their wedding outfits. What a beautiful couple and what a bouquet!

1950s Vintage Wedding Photo: 1950s Black / African American Bride and Groom.

Source: Pinterest

The Mother/Daughter Dance (or grandmother).

1950s Vintage Wedding Photo: vintage photo of 1950s bride dancing with her mother
Source: Etsy

I absolutely adore when men wear a white tuexedo jacket, black pants and bowtie. It’s such a handsome look and especially on ones wedding day.

1950s vintage wedding photo of the bride and the groom
Source: Etsy

The Wedding Cake. Sometimes good, sometimes bad and sometimes non existent (we skipped it at my wedding). Our newly married couple in this next photo, don’t really seem to know how to feel about what they eating. Maybe they are thinking they spent way to much money on something edible?

1950s vintage wedding photo of a bride and groom wearing glasses and eating wedding cake
Source: Etsy

The wedding party arrives in a very nice car.

1950s vintage wedding photo of a bride and groom and their wedding party arriving in a 1950s car.
Source: Etsy

Not all brides need to wear a white dress on their wedding, a classy 2 piece suit will do the job as well.

vintage 1950s wedding photo of a young couple coming out of the church
Source: Etsy

Last but not least, I’m going to leave you with a photo that technically does not fit this weeks theme but it is just so awesome, I had to share it.

The 1950’s bridal shower. Oh my goodness! Those dresses! The doll cakes! The little umbrellas! Could this photo get any more fantastic? Love love love.

1950s Wedding Bridal Shower with Doll Cakes vintage photo. Fantastic 1950s Dresses.
Source: Etsy

Extra Reading – Vintage Inn posts on vintage wedding topics:

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).

Thanks for taking a walk down the vintage photo wedding aisles with me friends!

Question time! What was your favourite photo that I shared? Share your thoughts in the comment section below.

Liz


Apr
2016

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

categories: 1940s, 1950's, Vintage Advertising, Wedding

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.

Disclosure: Some of the links on my blog from Etsy , eBay, are Affiliate Links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase. 

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