This 1947 photo shoes the Bridal Party leaving the Church. This
wedding took place in South Wales UK. 1947 was
the year that H.R.H Princes Elizabeth, later Her Majesty the Queen, married Prince Philip. You can read more about the Queen's
wedding dress here.
This wedding was a large family wedding and all the
bridesmaids are nieces or fully grown sisters of the groom or the bride.
All the bridal party, apart from the groom, wear clothes made from satin.
The bridesmaids dresses are of different styles, therefore it is possible they
were reused from different earlier weddings. If you examine the pictures you can distinguish four pairs of matching bridesmaids.
John and Violet pose for the traditional wedding shot of new
husband possessively holding his wife. His body language speaks volumes. In
the wedding photo beside them is Sylvia, John's adult married sister.
Sylvia was married at 17 in
1942
here.
In this picture the lady almost far left, wearing a
hat with a large white flower is
Connie, who was married to Jim in 1945. Her wedding is featured on the 1945 page. The
7 year old bridesmaid next to the groom is Pat who married in 1965 -
her 1960s wedding is here.
The young teen girl stood just behind Pat, is Gloria, whose
1956 wedding is shown on the
same page as that of Princess Grace.
Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh married H.R.H.
Princess Elizabeth on November 20 1947. Her dress is more a ceremonial
celebration gown than a wedding dress.
There are protests over Christian Dior's longer length fuller skirted
gowns. Harold Wilson thought them wasteful, however the press coined the name 'New Look'. Women go on to ignore the
comments and the New Look becomes a 15 year fashion trend!
Aluminium foil becomes available for use in the kitchen.
Pakistan separates from India.
First Transistor invented.
A mystery begins - Roswell UFO event.
Public relations disaster for Britain as it becomes
embroiled in the Exodus ship incident at Palestine in 1947.
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undated images.
If you have old wedding photos please send them to me and if suitable I will
add them to this pictorial section of social history.
OLD WEDDING PHOTOS
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