Wedding Fashions circa 1920

[curiouswombat]

When I attended the family wedding last week I was talking to someone whose uncle married my great-aunt. I mentioned that I had a picture showing the great-aunt, and this gentleman asked if I could possibly send him a copy.

However, I could do better - I have a copy of their wedding picture and, having scoured the house looking for it, finally remembered where it was this evening, and scanned it and e-mailed it to him. (And how amazing would that idea have been to the people in this picture back in 1920 or so?)

I thought it worth posting here - the glamorous lady sitting to the left is the bride's sister, my great-aunt Emily (who sadly died when I was an infant), the rather handsome young man standing at the left is their young brother - John, about 20 years old here. I don't know who the other bridesmaid is, but the gentleman sitting on the right, with his waxed moustache and spats, is the bride's cousin Charles Augustus, brought up by her parents and so more like a brother. He was a fascinating person - I must gather his whole history together some day.

But in the meantime - Aunty Nellie and Uncle Bobbie's wedding picture for your edification...

Comments

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

Absolutely lovely!

I much prefer a small wedding like that than these days of wedding-one-upmanship that seems to be the norm. I'm grateful that my nephews who had grand weddings are still happily married, but too often it seems like couples get so enraptured by the idea of a lavish wedding that they forget that after it's over, there's a marriage to manage!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

These days weddings seem to be almost a competitive sport - I also sometimes get the feeling that they are putting more into the wedding than the marriage.