Brides Collection

Music cover, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Music cover, Spring, Spring, Spring! From the musical film, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, starring Jane Powell and Howard Keel. circa 1950s

Royal Wedding 1986 - Fergie curtseys to the Queen
A smiling Lady Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, curtseys to Queen Elizabeth II, her mother-in-law following her marriage to Prince Andrew, Duke of York at Westminster Abbey on 23 July 1986. Date: 1986

Wedding dress of Aphra Farquhar by Worth
A regal wedding dress of white pure silk and antique lace designed by Owen Hyde-Clarke of Worth for the wedding of Aphra Farquhar Fetherstonhaugh to the Earl of Dundonald in 1960

Royal Wedding 1947 - bride and bridesmaid dresses
A fairytale wedding gown by Norman Hartnell for Princess Elizabeth, in itself a tribute to British skill in design and workmanship

Marriage of Princess Sophia of Greece / Don Juan Carlos of S
The wedding, in Athens, of Princess Sophia of Greece, now Queen Sofia of Spain (born 1938) and Infante Juan Carlos of Spain, now King Juan Carlos I of Spain (born 1938) on 14 May 1962. Date: 1962

St. Brides Church Steeple London at night, probably 1920s

The Bride's Father
A portrait painting of the father of a bride, wearing a top hat wedding suit, with a relaxed, yet proud facial expression, his hands are interlinked with a white cloth. Date: circa 1922

Bridal dress from Fenwick's
A bridal dress from Fenwick's, New Bond Street, in fancy satin damask with simulated paysanne corselet. Date: circa 1939

Lady Acheson, nee Mildred Carter
Mildred Acheson, Countess of Gosford (1888-1965) was an American socialite, here depicted on the occasion of her wedding to Lord Archibald Acheson

St Brides, formerly known as St Bridget's, Fleet Street Date: circa 1750

His Little Widows, Wyndhams Theatre, London
His Little Widows, Bernard Hishins musical comedy production, Wyndhams Theatre, London. Date: circa 1925

Entrance to Mr. Holdens Family Vault in St. Bride s
Entrance to Mr. Holdens Family Vault in St. Brides churchyard, one of the few relics after the Fire of London 1666. Built in 1657 with coat of arms above the door

Containing a memorial to the Pilgrim Fathers, the east end of the new St. Brides Church in Fleet Street. Date: 1957

Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh with the Bishop of London (right) at the rededication service for St. Brides church, Fleet Street, London. Date: 1957

Beautiful bride and page boys
Cover of Home Notes magazine: Special Wedding Number. The bride wears a floor length gown with an endless train, puff ball sleeves

St Pauls and St Brides Floodlit, by Stephen Bone
St Pauls and St Brides Floodlit, September 1931, painting by Stephen Bone. 1931

Dakar, Senegal - West Africa - Tall Marital Camel Palanquin. Date: circa 1920s

Wedding of Violet Asquith and Maurice Bonham-Carter
Wedding group at the marriage of Violet Asquith to Maurice Bonham-Carter. Helen Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury

Marriage Cecile of Greece to Georg Donatus Hesse
Princess Cecilie of Greece (1911-1937), known as Cecile, and Hereditary Grand Duke Georg Donatus of Hesse & by Rhine on their wedding day, 2 February 1931

Princess Cecile of Greece on her wedding day
Princess Cecilie of Greece (1911-1937), third child of Prince and Princess Andrew of Greece (Alice of Battenberg), pictured on her wedding day when she married Hereditary Grand Duke Georg Donatus of

Wedding of Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong-Jones
Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong-Jones (Earl Snowdon) pictured during the group photographs at Buckingham Palace, shortly after their marriage at Westminster Abbey on 6 May 1960. Date: 1960

Wedding of the Shah of Persia in 1960
Farah Diba (born 1938), third wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, last Shah of Persia (Iran), symbolically setting free some caged birds on the day of her wedding, wearing a dress by Christian Dior

Wedding dress of Jill Benton Jones by Norman Hartnell
A young and fresh looking wedding dress designed by Norman Hartnell for Jill Benton Jones marriage to Mr William McAlpine in 1960

Wedding Maskers a Sligo Marriage Custom - a view of strawboys calling at the brides house. There are two other ladies in the picture. (Location: Republic of Ireland: County Sligo)

Belinda Belville wedding dress, 1965
A Camelot-style wedding dress and veil of nun-like simplicity in translucent white organdie with a wide border of guipure lace and the cuffs and hem, also trimming the veil and train

A traditional Japanese headdress worn by brides
A Japanese woman wears a traditional headdress worn by brides. Date: 1932

Royal wedding, 1923 - bridal gown & bridesmaid dress
The bridal gown of Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon for her marriage to Prince Albert, Duke of York on 26 April 1923 at Westminster Abbey, designed by Madame Handley Seymour in a medieval style

Royal wedding, 1923 - Duke & Duchess of York return from Abb
A smiling Duchess of York (formerly Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and then Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother) returning back to Buckingham Palace after her marriage to Prince Albert

Princess Maud in her wedding dress
Princess Maud of Wales (1869 - 1938), later Queen of Norway, youngest daughter of King Edward VII, pictured in her wedding dress for her marriage to Prince Charles (Carl) of Denmark

Royal Wedding 1986 - the bride on her way to the Abbey
Lady Sarah Ferguson, later Duchess of York, just visible through the windows of the royal coach as she travels to Westminster Abbey for her marriage to Prince Andrew, Duke of York on 23 July 1986

Princess Mary and Lord Lascelles wedding
Princess Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary, the Princess Royal (1897 - 1965), Countess of Harewood, on her wedding day with her husband, Henry Charles George, Viscount Lascelles

St. Brides Church, Liverpool Date: circa 1890s

Bride wearing soft ivory satin dress 1912
Typical style for this period, long and narrow figure, with jewel neckline in soft ivory satin, lace cap headdress with tiny orange buttons and veil. 1912

Victorian bride preparing for her wedding, with bridesmaids. circa 1860s

English bride, brides maid and flower girl in the garden
English bride, bride?s maid and flower girl in the garden wedding reception in Nottingham. Brides maids and flower girl in pale blue traditional dresses of the period. Date: 1970s

The Bride by Alfred Joseph Woolmer
A young bride in a white dress stands at her dressing table to arrange her hair before leaving for her wedding. Date: c.1830s

Brides Bridge on the Maine, Randalstown - a view of a stump of a derelict bridge. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Randalstown). Date: circa early 1900s

New years custom: Choosing a bride - Russia
New years custom: Choosing a bride. Russian weddings traditionally last for at least two days and some weddings last as long as a week Date: 1913

The Royal Brides Life-Story in Pictures, 4 photographs of the Royal Bride throughout the years Date: 1947

Peggy by George Grossmith
Promotional postcard for Peggy by George Grossmith, based on LAmorcage by Leon Xanrof and Gaston Guerin; music Leslie Stuart. First produced Gaiety Theatre, 4th March 1911

Oh! I Say!! by Sydney Blow and Douglas Hoare. First produced at the Criterion Theatre, 28th May 1913. Based on Une Nuit de Noces by Henri Keroul and Albert Barrie (Theatre des Folies Dramatiques)

Wedding of Pamela Tabor to John Daniell, 1933
Bride and groom at a 1933 wedding. He wears a tail coat and top hat with white gloves, she a white satin bias cut dress with a bouquet of arum lilies. Date: 1933

Tatler front cover - fashion for brides 1965
Front cover of The Tatler featuring a bride wearing a headdress of big white organdie flowers with a long tulle veil from Reed Crawford. Her lipstick is Cuban Rose by Yardley. 1965

American soldiers returning home with English brides, WW1
American soldiers on board the Aquitania at Liverpool preparing to sail home accompanied by English wives who they had married while in Britain during the First World War

New Zealand soldiers returning home with English brides, WW1
A party of New Zealand soldiers on board the Remuera, heading home accompanied by their English wives who they had met and married while in Britain

Blitz in London -- Shoe Lane and St Bride Street, WW2
Blitz in London -- men at work with a hosepipe in Shoe Lane and St Bride Street, City of London, 11 May 1941. Date: 1941

The Threatened Slump in Husbands: post WW1 polgamy imagined
The Bystander takes a humourous look in 1915 at the marriage problems that may arise after the war is over. C.E Peto imagines the social consequences of polgamy becoming permissable in the wake of

Cookery Class 1930S
A cookery class for brides-to- be (and one man in an apron, presumably one of the teachers!), Paris, France. Date: early 1930s

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