Photo Friday: Technicolor Wedding Edition (1966)

Good morning!

Thanks, guys, for all your good advice yesterday on my next-to-last post as a single woman! I couldn't hardly sleep last night thinking about the rehearsal today, so Lord help me tonight when the big event is practically at hand!! I hope you're having a good week, but what week would be complete without a Photo Friday to look forward to? Today, I was looking for COLOR in all caps, and boy did I find it. Just try searching "wedding 1966" on either Flickriver or Flickr itself, and these are the kind of technicolor dreamboats you're going to come across. 

Let's look!

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This first photo is notable for the mother of the groom's youthful, Faye-Dunaway-in-a-European-movie style goldenrod ensemble. I love that the elbow length gloves match the hat, and meet at the elbow length sleeves. Can you see the little ribbon detail at the cuffs of each sleeve? To wear a hat like this just once, and this well! The mother of the bride is a pretty snazzy looking herself, in an emerald seafoam of a print, also with white gloves and a subtle, velvet band of a hat. Do you know how much less interesting of a photo this would have been in black and white? Thank goodness for Eastman Kodak!

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 I like this photo for two reasons. One, I can hear in my head the bride saying "And you could use your bridesmaids dresses for a number of different formal, social occasions after the ceremony! It's not just a one-off dress, it's really very elegant and versatile!" And she would have been lying like a rug. Still, the girls do look pretty sweet in their pale and midnight blue gowns. Two, I can't get over how tall the two grooms on the groomsmen side are in the middle of the lineup. Please, groom, if you're going to have friends, they need to be of either a uniform size or at least smaller than you. These pituitary cases are distracting the rest of us! Just kidding. But it is weird to have such tall men among such smaller ones. It looks like someone's done something to distort the proportion of the photo.

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Now these, theeeeeese are some bridesmaid dresses. What is going on here?! While the bride looks lovely, I am so thrown off by the jumper-like construction of the other gowns and why did you let the one bridesmaid have a violet instead of a pink hat? Isn't the whole point for the girls to look uniform? As timeless as the tuxedo'd men and the bride look, you know she's looking back on her wedding photos like "Why...why did I insist on those dresses?" or better yet "Why did I allow my bridesmaids to choose their own dresses?!" This is a picture that might have been better in black and white. Still, the vividness of the photo is hard to argue with.

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A much more traditional bridesmaid dress collection here. Do I love or do I LOVE the bride's cupcake of a dress? Maybe this is why I chose a similarly poufy one for myself! I actually like these bridesmaids dresses, too, because they're a true powder blue. And honestly, if you shortened the hem a little, you could wear them again as a nice evening sheath. It can be done, apparently! 

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Last but not least, here's a happy couple rushing off for their honeymoon! What strikes me about this photo is how of-a-moment and breathless it is. Obviously, someone's cousin or college buddy was lying there in wait, next to the getaway car, to snap a in media res photo of the couple dashing through the thrown rice to the first moments of their lives as married people and alone! Also, the bride's red coat and blue ensemble are pretty cute, if I do say so myself.

So! What do you think? Which of these photos is the most colorful? Did your mother or grandmother employ any completely crazy color schemes on her non-suspecting bridesmaids, or was she kind in her dress selection? Which of these vintage looks would you wear right now? Let's talk?

PEOPLE, I'M OFF TO BE A MARRIED GAL! Wish me luck! I have a week's worth of reruns lined up next week to get you through our vacations, so make sure you stop by to see some blasts from She Was a Bird's past in my absence. You guys are the best! See you soon. :)