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Wedding Bells

Wedding Bells

June is wedding season! Explore a sampling of wedding-related artwork and artifacts from across our museums. Read more about June brides and D-Day on the National Museum of American History's blog, or discover the backstory of our 1947 parachute wedding dress.

Need more convincing that love is in the air? Learn about balloon weddings from the archives of the National Air and Space Museum.


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Alice Pike Barney, in Wedding Gown

The Wedding

The Wedding

Woman's Dress, Wedding, 1847

Lupin Wedding Crown

Wedding Cake Basket

Bridesmaid Wedding Cake Figure

Wedding Cake Figure

Nixon-Eisenhower wedding

The Bride

Wedding Veil of Princess Stéphanie of Belgium

Gay Rights March

Puerto Rican Wedding, East Harlem, from the series Old New York

Mr. and Mrs. Patrick O'Brien

Wedding Ring for Edward M. Allardice

Study for the Bride

dress, 1-piece

Amish Bride and Groom, the Bishop and the Dowry

Untitled from the series Barbie

Wedding cape

A Bride

A Bride and Her Bridesmaids

Museum of History and Technology, Hall of American Costume

Bridewealth bag

Bride Profile

Bride's Cap

Standing Bride Before Two Attendants

The Wedding

Bride and Groom Walking Under Crossed Swords

A Tigua Wedding, from the portfolio The Tiguas: Pueblo Indians of Texas

Wedding veil

Gay Rights March

The Oxford Book of Marriage

Young Woman's Wedding Dress

Marriage necklace (chettiar thali)


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