50 drinks & toasts (1968)
Toast your friends with these easy recipes for famous drinks made with all the popular basic liquors: Bourbon, Scotch, gin, vodka, rum, Southern Comfort.
Johnny Cash & June Carter get married (1968)
June Carter & Johnny Cash are married
Johnny Cash and Miss June Carter, country and Western music singers who teamed up on a Grammy-winning record, teamed up in marriage too, it was announced Friday.
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Vintage & antique bridal gowns from the early 1900s
Classic wedding dress inspiration
Planning a wedding? Get ideas for your wedding gown here by checking out this collection of drawings of antique bridal gowns here from the first decade of the 1900s, taken fro... Read more...
Two fashionable antique wedding gowns from 1906
by Mrs Osborn, creator of fashions for the fashionable women of America
A) Wedding dress with Valenciennes lace & embroidered roses
A wedding gown of embroidered mull panels, trimmed with lace and med... Read more...
29 wedding superstitions (1921)
Marriage, being an ancient institution which vitally affects lives of men and women, it is not surprising that practically everything connected therewith has some superstitious belief or other associated with... Read more...
A new dress from a heirloom wedding dress (1950)
The heirloom wedding dress
Grandmother's treasure becomes fashionable, ankle-length gown for today's bride
Photos: 1900 - Mrs Wray A Bentley, the groom's grandmother, as a bride / 1950 - Remodeled gown on... Read more...
Dame Fashion’s wedding rules (1899)
Dame Fashion's wedding rules
Prospective brides ought to be thankful
Latest prescribed method of being married in style
No more elaborate trousseaux to tire them to death -- other sensible provisions
Un... Read more...
Create a new identity after your wedding (1939)
Bride has opportunity to build new personality in strange city
by Ruth Millett
So you're going to be married next month, and go with your husband to a new town?
It's rather exciting to think that you h... Read more...
Months & marriage myths (1912)
Months and marriage
Reader question: What is the significance attached to marriage in the several months of the year? - Bird, City
Married in January's hoar and rime,
Widowed you'll be before your prime.
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A military wedding (1943)
Here are two photos from the wedding of Captain Paulter and Libby on November 2, 1943. Unfortunately, we don't know exactly who these people are, but this officer and his bride were important enough for their p... Read more...
New wedding cake customs (1909)
New styles seen in wedding cake
Sometimes bound with ribbons which the bride cleaves with knife
The wedding cake, luscious and delicate of taste, with its thick layer of almond paste and its wonderful exter... Read more...
The life & times of the society reporter (1898)
If you have read even some of the wedding descriptions from the Society pages of old, you might imagine that people always did everything with such style and grace in the Victorian era. Well, as this society re... Read more...
Wedding bells at the Presidio (1896)
Exactly a year after his first wife died, Dr Morton Grinnell announced his engagement to heiress Jennie Catherwood. At the time of their wedding three months later, he was 41 years old, and the blushing bride w... Read more...
Do-it-yourself wedding buffets (1921)
Wedding breakfasts & buffet refreshments
Entrees, beverages, salads, ices and cakes suitable for noon or evening weddings
by Virginia Carter Lee
Half the fun of planning for a wedding is the arrang... Read more...
A new way to display wedding gifts (1902)
The gift display
by Marie Eulalie Moran
A recent bride chose an artistic method of displaying her wedding gifts.
There was a small room on the first floor at the end of the hall. All the furniture was ta... Read more...
Two bridal shower ideas (1913)
Shower for the traveling bride
Here is a clever suggestion for the hostess to the bride-to-be, whose honeymoon will include a trip abroad.
A pretty shower I went to last year I was carried out with Jean Ing... Read more...
Elvis & Priscilla become Mr & Mrs Presley (1967)
Elvis marries longtime friend
Las Vegas, Nevada - Elvis Presley, the Memphis boy who popularized rock 'n' roll music and became a millionaire in the process, ended a reign as one of show business' most eli... Read more...
Victorian bridal hairstyles (1870)
Bride's veil -- new coiffure
by Emily H May
We give here and engraving of a bride's veil (front and back views) and below, two new styles for dressing the hair, both being back views. The bride's veil is of... Read more...
An Easter wedding (1906)
An Easter wedding
The week following Easter has always been a favorite time for weddings. Here are a few suggestions for the girls who may be preparing for such an occasion:
Use white flowers exclusively, o... Read more...
Bridal gowns & wedding attire (1857)
Ball dress of white tulle, over a slip of white glacé; Dress of velvet, of a beautiful hue of brown at present very fashionable in Paris; Bridal costume -- Double skirt of white satin, richly trimmed with Bruss... Read more...
Use mold pans for cakes, cookies & more (1908)
Be your own caterer
Every one remembers the gingerbread novelties of the days of his youth. There was a fascination about the gingerbread animals that didn't belong to the plain round cakes made of the sam... Read more...
Wedding tips and etiquette (1914)
What to expect before, during and after a wedding
From the best man to the most remote acquaintance of the affianced couple, a wedding invitation brings to the recipient a certain sense of joyousness and ple... Read more...
Autumn brides and their attendants (1914)
Autumn brides and their attendants
by Frances Marshall
The most modish bride of the season steps to the altar unhampered by a train. In fact, her skirt is well off the ground, and her veil, voluminous in it... Read more...
Colored stone engagement rings (1899)
Colored stone engagement rings
The fad for color has affected even the engagement ring, and while the diamond solitaire remains always fashionable, the betrothal of two fond hearts just now calls into requisit... Read more...
Big party? Get a food checklist (1909)
Quantities needed for entertainments
Amount of provisions required by hostesses of large parties, reunions, etc.
As the time approaches for general entertaining -- including the many church reunions -- ma... Read more...
Bridal showers and baby showers (1902)
Showers of all kinds
Rain is not the only variety troubling society circles
Linen, kitchen, stocking, apron, cushion and bric-a-brac deluges of daily occurrence -- Baby shower is the crowning affliction which... Read more...
