Wedding dresses

My dress was made by my dear MiL. The top was guipire lace and I cut out the flowers from the bit that was left and covered a hat base and scattered the rest over the veil, which was donated by a friend, as it had a few holes in it where it was secured on her windy wedding day. We will have been married 50 years next April.

Forgot to say it had a detachable train which made a lovely straight dress for the evening.

I have really enjoyed this thread - Thank you to everyone who managed to put a photo of their wedding dresses. You all looked beautiful!

Me and my family 3 years ago. On my way to marry the man I had met when I was 18 and then again when I was 64.

Mine in 1974. The dress was £20 from an Oxford Street store.

Don’t know if this will work...I’ve not put a photo on before. We got married in 1974, at Southwark RC Cathedral. Can’t believe it’s 45 years ago.
I made my dress, bridesmaid’s dress and Mum’s outfit!!
Must admit “Say yes to the dress” is my guilty pleasure too.

Away from home just now so no pics. My dress size 8 was white velvet,long sleeves, round train (not too long) round neck with the bodice fitting under the bust. Had a white velvet headdress and long veil. Was a December wedding and there was a light covering of snow on the ground. Very romantic. I do remember I had a vest on underneath to combat the freezing cold weather 52 years ago.

[woodmouse]. What a lovely story!!

I made my dress myself in 1982.
We had only known each other 10 months when we married and there were lots of ... it won’t last ... she must be pregnant!
We are still together and I wasn’t ??

Enjoyed this post so much thanks everyone.

Got married in jeans and a sweatshirt. No photos sadly!

July 1966. Fifty two years and counting. We were both coming up to twenty, the same age as DGS is now, so young.

Thanks for all these lovely photots! and it's so interesting to put faces to names, even if it was a while ago!

I don't have photos to hand as most of my photo albums I left with my children when we moved abroad. White has bever suited me so my first wedding dress in 1963 was in the palest lemon brocade which I made myself and I made the four bridesmaid dresses too. Not a bad fete for a 19 year old. My second wedding was in 1987 and everyone kept asking what I would be wearing. It's white and frilly is all I would say. But it was actually an Italian designer knitted suit in fuschia pink and matching hat. A surprising colour to go with my auburn hair. For my 3rd wedding in 2002 it was a cream lace dress which I bought in America where we were married. While my present DH is the best by far wedding outfit number two was my favourite. Wish I could fit into it now.

Arriving with my dad who was in trouble with mother for having a box of confetti in his pocket. I made my dress and veil and wore flat shoes so I would not look taller than my husband.

Ellianne. I love your dress. It is really beautiful. And timeless.

Urmstongran. I too was just 20. Your dad looks so lovely and happy and you are so pretty. I am so very sorry you lost your dad so young. It makes me all the more appreciate how lucky I was to have mine, he was so important to me during other difficult times.

What a fabulous thread - thank you Maw! I’ve had a lovely half hour looking through all these posts.

So many happy brides but not all marriages survived which is sad, for whatever reason.

No one gets married to get divorced.
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Ah, thank you Tillybelle that was so sweet of you to post.
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What lovely photos and stories. My 1971 registry office wedding was the day after my 17th birthday (a month after my husband's) and I was pregnant so no white wedding for us. I had a pink dress and coat with black patent shoes hurriedly bought with my mum in Scarborough - I wore it several times later but it was made of very strange stiff thick material. My husband's brown corduroy suit was bought by his mum from her catalogue . Here we are running up to 50 years even though they said it would never last!

My parents were married in 1948 and had 63 wonderful years together. Mum made her wedding trousseau from parachute silk. For some reason the wedding photographer tried to touch up my dad's eye and made a real mess of it which was a shame. I still have her horseshoe.

Oh god Willow500 you both look such babies. Only 17y! We’re you scared? Maybe the optimism of youth just carried you through.

Congratulations on your long and happy marriage.
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I bought my dress and jacket from the Mail Order company I was working for (a friend let me use her staff discount as she got 25% and I only got 12.5%) I made a skullcap of white silk flowers, no veil.

My H and I were just 22 and 21 and yes we were just kids.When I look at my GC who are no way ready for marriage I just cringe.
But we made over 60 years with no serious problems.
Maybe we knew it was forever with no way out, we surmounted the hurdles and got on with it.

A lovely thread. Thanks everyone, I’d include my own photo if I only knew how. My dress c1973 was very similar to many of them here. High neck, long sleeves, very modest compared to nowadays. I think it cost £25.00 and the veil was 19/11. Happy days!

Patticake123. I may be able to beat you on the price of the veil! Not that we are competing ha ha!

I was not sure what veils were meant to be like so I went to Harvey's in Guildford and to the Bridal Room. I had planned to look at them on my own but they weren't hanging up for show like in a normal clothes department! It was not a minute before I had these two lovely middle aged ladies fussing around me bringing out veils.... So into the booth go I to try them....
The ladies were a bit too ever-present. My whole scheme was to look at the stitching etc and investigate the inner workings of these objects. The only way to get the opportunity to do this unnoticed was to keep the ladies busy! So I sent them off, feeling a little bit guilty, after all I was getting married in Church and I should be good.... but off they'd go climbing ladders to reach boxes with their little fat legs rasping together like the people in Chiggley. (or Trumpton?)..

Eventually I had the "intel" I needed. Putting on a sad face I said I would have to come back with my mother, I simply could not tell which would work with the dress....

They were so kind, so understanding...

The shop was almost closing! I rushed round the corner to haberdashery, to the kitchen net curtain department, grabbed a roll of the finest of the kitchen curtain net (it was still a lot coarser than the veils upstairs) and paid about 2/- a yard for it!

Footnote:
When I was deciding how long to cut it, my mother being useless (say no more), I was on my own. So I put it on, over my jeans, walked a step or two and threw the scissors down behind me on it. I cut it in a wavy line where the scissors landed.