Wedding dresses

I am sure I have posted one already, but here goes - 1970!

I’m really enjoying looking at all these brides!
Thank you Maw for starting such a different thread.
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This is our wedding day in 1977
If it's worked that is !

Thank you Jane10.
What lovely photos so far. MawB has posted her wedding photo before, but not in this thread. Very lovely they both looked as well.

Hoping this works as I haven’t posted a photo before. Here’s our wedding in 1976. Dress made by a dressmaker from a paper pattern I supplied.

So sad about your Dad callgirl

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I posted on the other thread, but here it is again, plus my parents in January 1942, my father was killed 11 months later.

marsus, your headdress looks like my earmuffs! And very lovely you look wearing them!

June 1978 - 41 years and a couple of stone ago!

Remembered a photo we have on display. Here we are. You can see the detail, but the style is obvious.?

My dress was by Pronuptia. At £60, it was the cheapest in the shop but I loved it nonetheless. My mother was pleased with the price?. It had a high neck, long sleeves and a crinoline skirt. Little embroidered flowers all over.
I'm afraid I can't do a photo as my album is languishing in the recesses of the crawl space in a box behind the assorted pieces of luggage and the Christmas decorations.

Mine was made by my mother in law, she couldn’t resist adding lots of lace, and frills which I didn’t really care for! But it was empire line , high neck, big puffy sleeves!

The only photos were taken by a friend, and I honestly don’t know where they are!

Hmm, might be able to find one of wedding number 2, but they were all just casual photos taken by friends.

Will have to have a rummage............

My dress for my 1970 wedding was very like yours kitty - it cost me £18.50 from D.H Evens or John Lewis - can never recall which. I had a 'bomb' shaped head dress covered in artificial flowers and a short veil attached to the back of it.

My dress was hired too, as well as the veil and headdress. Probably much to my mother's disappointment, as she came with me to choose, and I insisted on the first dress I tried on. If memory serves correctly, the cost of the whole outfit was £32. It's a good job we didn't have to pay for cleaning, as it was a very rainy day and it went back very mud-splattered.

Mine is also on the kitchen thread. DD3 is getting married in Vegas and is thinking of borrowing my veil which I think prompted the talk of wedding dresses.

Another gransnetter had the same dress as me, possibly the actual same dress, as mine was hired too. The earmuff headdress caused great hilarity when DD came at lunch time and tried it on.

Mine was empire line, with a shallow scoop neckline and trumpet sleeves.There were appliquéd roses, stuffed with cotton wool to make them stand out, on the bodice. Short veil and spray bouquet of yellow roses. I wanted lily of the valley too, but apparently it doesn't grow in Kenya. My train got a bit muddy, because we risked having the wedding in the middle of the long rains. Luckily we caught a glorious, hot, sunny day so had an outdoor reception with a cold buffet. My dad's bald spot got sunburnt.

Mine was very much a 70s dress. It was white, had a high neckline, bat-wing voile sleeves and was empire-line. I wore it with a short veil and (arrgh!) carried a spray of peach artificial flowers! Aaaargh again! What was I thinking??

Wish I'd enjoyed it more. I was shy and hated being the centre of attention. I just wanted to get the day over with, even though we had the most beautiful, silver service, small reception at a restaurant on Egon Ronay's list.

Have you noticed the necklines? Largely a high one, several stand up collars even. Not like today

I wore my outfit for years and years until it wore out!

Oh I couldn’t ever have afforded such a beautiful dress Grammaretto (neither could my parents). I hired it.
Savvy me!

What beauties you all are and your parents.
Both sets of our parents were registry office wartime brides and grooms. We had a Quaker wedding and didn't dress up either.
I'm quite glad actually as what do you do with the dress afterwards?
Our DC have made up for our austere weddings with lavish to my mind outfits and all the men in kilts

Did anyone else have photos of them and the groom sitting in a champagne glass in their album?

I would gladly put a wedding photo on here but I don't know how to!!

C’mon Maw share on here too!
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