Tag Archives: old wedding photos

1950s bride and groom photo

1950s Wedding Photos

These are the wedding pictures of Mary who got married in the 1950s; she also gave me her mother’s 1930s and grandmother’s 1913 wedding photos to digitize, which I previously posted. It provides an interesting glimpse into wedding fashions and wedding photography trends during the first half of the 20th century. There was no photographer [...]

1910s bride and groom

1912 Wedding Portrait

I can’t refuse favors of scanning old photos for elderly ladies, especially when they let me also post about them. This is a photo of the woman’s grandmother, who got married in about 1912. You can see that the bride is wearing a single strand of pearls, and has lace accents at her vshaped neck [...]

1890s bride and groom

Turn of the century wedding, couples, and portraiture

I found these old turn of the century wedding photos especially fascinating, especially the girl in the black wedding dress that looks quite corseted. I wish I knew more about turn of the century fashions, because I am guessing that the black would be from the 1890s and the white dresses from more about 1910s? [...]

1945 Wedding Reception or Garden Party

I found these slides, of the same couple as the last, in a box labeled “August 9 – 45″, so presumably from 1945 … it looks like they attended a wedding and snapped some family photos, or maybe the wedding picture is just accidentally mixed in. You can see the hat and dress styles of [...]

Turn of the Century Wedding, couple, and baby photo scans

I am overloaded with vintage lately! I’ve taken on this project to scan photos for the Carondelet Historical Society…. as a natural progression of taking pictures of models in their donated old clothes. I can’t say no to taking on extra preserving, when they’re so kind as to let me practice my retro style photography [...]