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.

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

Wedding Portrait of the Bride and Groom Eating the Wedding Cake

Untitled from the series Barbie

A Bride and Her Bridesmaids

Museum of History and Technology, Hall of American Costume

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

1880 Satin Brocade Wedding Gown, NMHT

Wedding Portrait of Bride and Groom Cutting the Wedding Cake

Mr. and Mrs. "General Tom Thumb" in their Wedding Costume

Wedding Cake of Sarah A. Meserole and Henry W. M. Meade

Bridal Portrait of Mrs. Julian Clarence Levi, Falk Studio, Waldorf Astoria, New York

Candida's Bridal Party, Chelsea

Wedding Group Shot of Bride & Groom

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

Laura and Paul Foster's wedding at summer solstice celebration.

Sondra Einhorn in Wedding Gown

Wedding portrait of a bride

woman in wedding dress

Sondra and Leon Einhorn

Wedding portrait of couple

Photographic print of Florance Rumbough Trevor in her wedding gown