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Hate to say it, but the "bride" looks more like the "groom's" mother.

 

Heck.....I'd never seen a BLACK wedding dress before this card!!!!!!!

 

OUCH!!!!!

 

Makanudo, the tucks/pleats at the lower portion of the bodice run (sort of) horizontally.

The much larger pleats on the skirt portion of the dress are more vertical to my eye anyway.

 

My eyes can't make out the pleats, so I can't say. The photo appears to be from the 1880s...

How about this one? Is this what you are talking about? This is a tintype I bought several months ago. Not a wedding photo, but relevant to that part of the discussion.

I think it's 1880s, maybe slightly earlier than the cabinet card? This is a tintype.

 

I didn't mean for the photo to appear above my comments...

 

Figtree, thank you. Yes, those are the "type" of pleats (isn't that called a "box pleat"?) which I was talking about.

I was wondering about the diagonal slant of the onset of the pleats because I had never seen (in person or in a photo) pleats (as in the bride's "skirt") which are "on the diagonal" (meaning at the middle waist the pleats are longer but then "bound up shorter in appearance" by the diagonal sash traveling across the pleats and ending in a "rosette"). Good grief, I've almost confused myself (as well as others, I am sure) now.

 

Dark Irish Wedding

 

Here is one happy bride for a change...

 

Handsome couple, too!

 

She did! She was the bride of Frankenstein. Elsa Lanchester in Bride of Frankenstein (c1935).

Black and dark colors were common colors for wedding dresses. Women tended to wear their best dress for the occassion. Queen Victoria was one of the first in relatively recent history to wear a white wedding gown (1840). It soon became the fashion for those who could afford a gown. Here is a little on the history of wedding gowns.

http://all-that-is-interesting.com/history-of-wedding-gowns

--- Susan

 

Ladybranch, very interesting link you provided.

The last wedding gown and veil photo on Page 1 of your link is absolutely beautiful (even if we are seeing it only from the back). I'm willing to guess that the front is just as lovely.

 

That film was recently shown on the Svengoolie show on MeTV. I had not seen it in years, and had forgotten that The Bride first appears only a few minutes before the end of the movie. An iconic performance, though!

 

Susan, in the link you provided, I LOVED the red gown on the second page!!!!!

 

One satisfied couple:

 

Makanudo, I love the placement of her bouquet.

I see a large "sprig" of some sort of plant/greenery/flower on the groom's lapel. Do you know what type of greenery/flower it might be (perhaps some "custom" for a groom to wear back when the photo was made)?

I wonder if it is a large sprig of rosemary or a sprig of an evergreen tree/bush.

 

I feel like this bride knows something the groom doesn't.
Or maybe vice versa.

 

yourturntoloveit, you are quite right regarding the lapel decor. It is customery here for all the guests on the wedding (including groom) to wear rosemary attached to their clothes.

 

Oh, wow, YourTurn, good eyes.
I bet that smells wonnnnnnderful!

 

Its a bad scan not photo, but a photo is glued to a crooked cardboard so the scan couldnt be better and I cannot unglue the photo.