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

Wedding Ring for Edward M. Allardice

A Wedding

Wedding Tablets (Ketubah)

Untitled, from the Appalshop Photographic Survey

Maria Ann and S. Ron Dorsey with his aunt Amy Swift inspecting the apron used for the money dance at their wedding reception, Highlandtown

Untitled (historical photograph, wedding party) from the Buffalo, New York Documentary Survey Project

Wedding Day, Washington Heights, New York

Ceremonial train

Wedding Costume: Tunic

Taif Wedding Dress

Wedding Invitation

Painting

Navajo Wedding

Basket

Wedding basket

Wedding portrait of couple

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