Tag Archives: wedding fashion

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 [...]

1930s bride

1930s Wedding Portraits, and dating old photos by hair style

These were my elderly friend’s mother’s wedding photos, who got married in the 1930s. As you can see, she got it shot by the same St. Louis photographer who had shot her mother’s wedding portraits, J.J. Belka. The veil style is more of a close fitting cap, though not the cloche of the 1920s, and the [...]

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 [...]