Stunning elegance and modesty at its best. How wonderful everyone looked and manners….. no children screening, no short skirts or low tops, heavy make up or other ‘enhancements’. How I wish things hadn’t changed so much and the sense of propriety still ran through our society.
Our parents were married in 1954 and are still with us, although in assisted living. They are 99 and 96. Dad recently had a bad fall and was hospitalized, away from Mama for over a month. Every time I put him on the phone with her he ended by saying, “I wish more than anything that I was home with you.” So precious and loving, always.
Seeing this wedding was heart warming I was six years old when this couple got married. Seeing 1955 again brings back the sense of the values of that time. How I wish my extended family had been able to film a wedding like this so that I could see all the people I loved again. What a treasure this memory must be to the families involved.
The 'values' of that time included women not being allowed to work after marriage in most industries. Those 'values' meant gay men were given chemical castration and/or EST to "cure" them, or could gace prison just for being gay. Those 'values' relegated anyone with a disability to be hidden from society in dickensian style conditions. Those 'values' forced unmarried pregnant women to give up their baby whether they wanted to or not. Those values meant it was almost impossible for women to get tertiary education. Those values meant segregation in the US. Those ' values' meant corporal punishment on children in school. Those 'values' meant racism was normalised. No, thank you.
Lovely to see a modest wedding dress .. unlike most of today's dresses which barely cover the bride's top half..with the bridesmaids the same . With no respect for the sanctity of the wedding ceremony .This is beautiful .
❤ the bride is so elegant in a really lovely dress. Classic. Bridesmaids too. Everyone looks smart. A lovely reminder of the saying less is more. What a lovely wedding. X
My beautiful mum and dad were married on November 18th 1950 and had 64 wonderful years together before my dad passed away mum was never the same after his death and she sadly passed from this world and back into his arms four years later and we were with her at her time of passing and i whispered in her ear your where you want to be now back in daddy’s arms and it has given us as a family peace and joy to know that the love they shared goes on for eternity xx
How stunning - what a gracious and elegant wedding -,very posh too for the time, with so many morning suits. The bride and bridesmaids looked so beautiful, and happiness just radiated from the video. My parents married in the 1950s and it was a different world in those days from today. I was born a couple of years later, and remember being taken to a relatives wedding. I was only 4 but it was still the,1950s, and I still remember the excitement and happiness being at the brides house that morning as she dressed, and the calls of ‘the cars are here’. Everyone had just come out of the war a few years earlier (the older men had been through two wars) and everyone was glad to be alive. I think this wedding might have been the late.1950s as rationing was still on until 1954, but perhaps someone can work it out from the cars (I know the Morris Minor came out in 1948). It would be lovely to know who this couple were, and where the church was. Wonder if someone could recognise. It. It would be lovely to know who this couple were - I hope they had a very happy life together. Must admit I loved the video - but found it very triggering. It brought back to me just how much we have lost - manners, thoughtfulness, and dress etiquette. It wasn’t all great I know - but it all seemed very kind, gentle and measured to me at the time.
@@ingridpear1882 rationing had only just finished and you couldn’t get much - my dresses were made out of my mothers old dirndl skirts, and my grandmother would pull apart a cardigan or jumper and re knit it into something for me -and that was later in the 1950s. My mother would explain how hard it was to get anything - and her father worked in the textile industry, and my other grandfather had a shop , and even they struggled from time to time. In fact rationing in the UK was worse after the war because of all the supplies they were having to send to help rebuild a starving Germany.
@bethzolin6046 That's interesting to know about. I think rationing ended earlier in North America. We associate different styles with the 50's ( 40's even more) than Europe or the UK sometimes.
@ hi - d0 you know about the Berlin airlift? You can research it,but basically because Berlin was landlocked in the Russian zone, in order to increase their influence they stopped the other allies from coming in and out. That meant no supplies getting through, from June 1948 to September 1949. So an airlift was organised as it was the only way to get supplies into Berlin, and for 15 months that’s what the the USA and UK forces together did. They flew over 250,000 times, and brought in roughly 13,000 tons of food a day. That also had an effect on the UK, for whilst rationing stopped things were still in short supply. We also had to repay lend lease the USA for all things we had borrowed from the USA, and that was only finally paid back in 2006. Things were very tough here in the UK for a very long time after the war. (I guess we were used to it lol - when we ended slavery in 1837 we did it by buying the slaves back, which cost £20 million at the time, which was compensation to the slave owner - the only way they would agree to the abolition of slavery, then freeing the slaves - that was 40% at the time of the treasury’s annual income. We only finished paying that money back in 2015. )
@@bethzolin6046 I feel like that's somewhere in the recesses of my brain from what I learned about the time period - not coming front and center. And most of what I know about Britain's slavery abolishment is how that affected the underground railroad in Canada, aka British North America then becoming Dominion of Canada.
This is stunning. I also realised that most of the people in this video would have probably passed on by now. those smiles at 6:50 are beautiful ♥ How the bride delicately sits in the car. 8:21 the woman in middle frame, is that a scalloped coat? Wow! That dress at the end. Thank you @UK Photo Archive
My big sister got married in 1954, and I was 8 years old. It was a wedding very much like this one. Nice memories. Thank you for presenting a little glimpse of the 50's lifestyle
Such lovely and civilized times. I agree with previous comments on such a gorgeous and modest wedding dress. I cringe when I see some of the dresses today that barely cover the torso. I am afraid that they’ll never be back.
So true. Now days. They live together. Then move on to partner 2/3 have loads of kids Then get married in a big white wedding dress Showing everything. Which doesn’t matter because the bride 🙄😂 been with them all anyway. Then split up couple of years later She gets the house and kids. HE PAYS
I was just pondering that thought myself. When I think of my family who were around in the 50’s to now, only 1 person from my mothers generation left. I doubt if there is any film of them in the 50’s waiting to be uncovered.
@ mine too! Three photos at a lunch for 8 after a registry office wedding on August 21 1953, in parramatta Australia,they both died in their fifties, my dad died from raf stress at 53, (a dfc recipient) my mum a few years later at her own hand. Three children five grandchildren three great grandchildren, life keeps rolling on. We loved them very much but they both paid a big price for the war years. So did we. They were both in the fashion industry, would have loved your comment scalloped edges, ooh la la! Tres chic! 💖💖💖💖💖
Still not an average wedding such as my parent’s had, Dad wearing his demob suit, and ham salad reception at a local cafe. They have a bit of money behind them from the look of it.
Surprisingly enough the coach company, The Potteries Motor Traction Company, is still on the go. It’s now part of First Midlands a subsidiary of First Group.
My parents were married January 31st, 1953 in Weehawken, NJ USA. I was born Dec 9th, 1953, the first of 8 children. Dad died in March 2007 of lung cancer. But he was a true family man. Mom went home to the Lord March 2018. We love & miss you both dearly! Requiescant in Pace! ❤❤❤
I remember attending the wedding of my youngest aunt at the age of five years old during this era. I am now in my seventies. I found myself smiling gently and remembering “the way we we were…” thank you for this beautiful upload 🎈❤️🎈
They will be 70 now but does not seem so long ago a beautiful time to grown up was in thje 1950s although times were very very poor for ordinary people , fathers having to work 7 days a week This is clearly a society wedding or wealthy families to show off all the wedding cars Very beautiful and I am sure their marriage lasted
I LOVE the understated elegance and simplicity of the 5os and 60s weddings.. Elegance, more meaning no fluff, over the top..just simple beauty from her gown, candelabra, flowers..even the cake. Ill take these wedding anyday over todays way out there expemse musicals..
Perhaps but in their late 80s... 90s? My mum and dad were married in 1958 my dad passed away earlier this year aged 89 my mum 11 years ago she went to sleep one night and didn't wake up she was just 74
How lucky we were to live in this time.I was married in 1969.People were civilised,gracious and respectful.Compare these people to the horrendous creatures that vist that supermarket chain in America
Such a beautiful young couple. What happened to them? Were they happy? Did they have a long and successful life? Most of them a gone now and I don't know why it make me sad? Maybe because my parents got married in 1951, and it could have been them, and my grandparents on that movies. The little girls in their fancy dresses could have been my cousins ...
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No tattoos. No immodest clothing. Just beautiful happy and gracious people. A beautiful bride and great joy.
Absolutely....just beautiful and respectful...days of good old Britain.
Stunning elegance and modesty at its best. How wonderful everyone looked and manners….. no children screening, no short skirts or low tops, heavy make up or other ‘enhancements’.
How I wish things hadn’t changed so much and the sense of propriety still ran through our society.
❤
Our parents were married in 1954 and are still with us, although in assisted living. They are 99 and 96. Dad recently had a bad fall and was hospitalized, away from Mama for over a month. Every time I put him on the phone with her he ended by saying, “I wish more than anything that I was home with you.” So precious and loving, always.
@@jankirschke7425 How beautiful.
A lovely elegant wedding. Beautiful Bride and her handsome Groom. Her dress is absolutely beautiful. I hope they had a long and happy life together.
I love seeing hats on the men and womesn. Also, women wearing gloves. Elegant. Lovely.
I was born in the 50s in a middle class family. But my mom and grandmas would never have stepped outside without a hat and gloves
Seeing this wedding was heart warming I was six years old when this couple got married. Seeing 1955 again brings back the sense of the values of that time. How I wish my extended family had been able to film a wedding like this so that I could see all the people I loved again. What a treasure this memory must be to the families involved.
The 'values' of that time included women not being allowed to work after marriage in most industries. Those 'values' meant gay men were given chemical castration and/or EST to "cure" them, or could gace prison just for being gay. Those 'values' relegated anyone with a disability to be hidden from society in dickensian style conditions. Those 'values' forced unmarried pregnant women to give up their baby whether they wanted to or not. Those values meant it was almost impossible for women to get tertiary education. Those values meant segregation in the US. Those ' values' meant corporal punishment on children in school. Those 'values' meant racism was normalised.
No, thank you.
The bride is so lovely and the bridesmaids dresses are a beautiful shade of yellow. What a wonderful glimpse into the past😊
What a handsome groom!
Lovely to see a modest wedding dress .. unlike most of today's dresses which barely cover the bride's top half..with the bridesmaids the same . With no respect for the sanctity of the wedding ceremony .This is beautiful .
Agree ... the adage that because you can, doesn't mean you should serves well here.
Agree. There are parts of a bride's body only a husband should see.
Agree
That gown stands the test of time and wouldn’t look out of place on a Royal bride.
Wonderful footage.
Lovely film. Everyone was so well dressed and groomed. Thanks for this beautiful memory.
❤ the bride is so elegant in a really lovely dress. Classic. Bridesmaids too. Everyone looks smart. A lovely reminder of the saying less is more. What a lovely wedding. X
Yes, Absolutely,understated classic elegance ..a family wedding in the real meaning.
Wonderful English wedding
My beautiful mum and dad were married on November 18th 1950 and had 64 wonderful years together before my dad passed away mum was never the same after his death and she sadly passed from this world and back into his arms four years later and we were with her at her time of passing and i whispered in her ear your where you want to be now back in daddy’s arms and it has given us as a family peace and joy to know that the love they shared goes on for eternity xx
True love is eternal.
How stunning - what a gracious and elegant wedding -,very posh too for the time, with so many morning suits. The bride and bridesmaids looked so beautiful, and happiness just radiated from the video. My parents married in the 1950s and it was a different world in those days from today. I was born a couple of years later, and remember being taken to a relatives wedding. I was only 4 but it was still the,1950s, and I still remember the excitement and happiness being at the brides house that morning as she dressed, and the calls of ‘the cars are here’. Everyone had just come out of the war a few years earlier (the older men had been through two wars) and everyone was glad to be alive. I think this wedding might have been the late.1950s as rationing was still on until 1954, but perhaps someone can work it out from the cars (I know the Morris Minor came out in 1948). It would be lovely to know who this couple were, and where the church was. Wonder if someone could recognise. It. It would be lovely to know who this couple were - I hope they had a very happy life together.
Must admit I loved the video - but found it very triggering. It brought back to me just how much we have lost - manners, thoughtfulness, and dress etiquette. It wasn’t all great I know - but it all seemed very kind, gentle and measured to me at the time.
The description said 1955. I thought some of the guests outfits looked 40's. But then people don't update their clothes that much.
@@ingridpear1882 rationing had only just finished and you couldn’t get much - my dresses were made out of my mothers old dirndl skirts, and my grandmother would pull apart a cardigan or jumper and re knit it into something for me -and that was later in the 1950s. My mother would explain how hard it was to get anything - and her father worked in the textile industry, and my other grandfather had a shop , and even they struggled from time to time. In fact rationing in the UK was worse after the war because of all the supplies they were having to send to help rebuild a starving Germany.
@bethzolin6046 That's interesting to know about. I think rationing ended earlier in North America. We associate different styles with the 50's ( 40's even more) than Europe or the UK sometimes.
@ hi - d0 you know about the Berlin airlift? You can research it,but basically because Berlin was landlocked in the Russian zone, in order to increase their influence they stopped the other allies from coming in and out. That meant no supplies getting through, from June 1948 to September 1949. So an airlift was organised as it was the only way to get supplies into Berlin, and for 15 months that’s what the the USA and UK forces together did. They flew over 250,000 times, and brought in roughly 13,000 tons of food a day. That also had an effect on the UK, for whilst rationing stopped things were still in short supply. We also had to repay lend lease the USA for all things we had borrowed from the USA, and that was only finally paid back in 2006. Things were very tough here in the UK for a very long time after the war.
(I guess we were used to it lol - when we ended slavery in 1837 we did it by buying the slaves back, which cost £20 million at the time, which was compensation to the slave owner - the only way they would agree to the abolition of slavery, then freeing the slaves - that was 40% at the time of the treasury’s annual income. We only finished paying that money back in 2015. )
@@bethzolin6046 I feel like that's somewhere in the recesses of my brain from what I learned about the time period - not coming front and center. And most of what I know about Britain's slavery abolishment is how that affected the underground railroad in Canada, aka British North America then becoming Dominion of Canada.
I do love how people dressed to attend the wedding. I'm ok with bringing back a little formality and manners to every occasion.
This is stunning. I also realised that most of the people in this video would have probably passed on by now. those smiles at 6:50 are beautiful ♥ How the bride delicately sits in the car. 8:21 the woman in middle frame, is that a scalloped coat? Wow! That dress at the end. Thank you @UK Photo Archive
Maybe not the children in the film they may be in their 60s or 70s
Lovely wedding. I love all the ladies hats and the brides beautiful modest wedding dress.
My big sister got married in 1954, and I was 8 years old. It was a wedding very much like this one. Nice memories. Thank you for presenting a little glimpse of the 50's lifestyle
Such lovely and civilized times. I agree with previous comments on such a gorgeous and modest wedding dress. I cringe when I see some of the dresses today that barely cover the torso. I am afraid that they’ll never be back.
So true. Now days. They live together. Then move on to partner 2/3 have loads of kids Then get married in a big white wedding dress Showing everything. Which doesn’t matter because the bride 🙄😂 been with them all anyway. Then split up couple of years later She gets the house and kids. HE PAYS
Another world. How magical.
Beautiful memories to have on film .Her wedding dress was very similar to my dress in 1966 ,dropped waist and long veil .
So lovely.
I hope they had a long and very happy life together 💞🥂😊
Yes I hope they went on to have a long, happy marriagex I wish I knew
Gorgeous wedding dress, simple yet elegant and modest
How gorgeous and what a treasure that film must have been for the family. So sad to think they're probably all dead now, but oh, those were the days!
Elegant and dignified!
How lovely. I wonder what became of their lives ❤🙏
I was just pondering that thought myself. When I think of my family who were around in the 50’s to now, only 1 person from my mothers generation left. I doubt if there is any film of them in the 50’s waiting to be uncovered.
This was a posh wedding❤❤❤❤
The fact it was filmed too says it was posh. My parents married in 1953 but their wedding was quite humble. They didn't have much money.
@ mine too! Three photos at a lunch for 8 after a registry office wedding on August 21 1953, in parramatta Australia,they both died in their fifties, my dad died from raf stress at 53, (a dfc recipient) my mum a few years later at her own hand. Three children five grandchildren three great grandchildren, life keeps rolling on. We loved them very much but they both paid a big price for the war years. So did we. They were both in the fashion industry, would have loved your comment scalloped edges, ooh la la! Tres chic! 💖💖💖💖💖
Beautiful every one’s dressed up love brides dress❤❤❤❤❤😊
I love that they brought the dog.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful footage. I wonder who the happy couple are and what experiences life brought them. I hope they were happy ❤
Talk about fashionable & stylish. Love the hats & gloves, everything actually.
Very special and lovely.
How lovely❤
Lovely
So beautiful
How gracious and happy the lucky couple are,everyone beautifully dressed.❤
Still not an average wedding such as my parent’s had, Dad wearing his demob suit, and ham salad reception at a local cafe. They have a bit of money behind them from the look of it.
Surprisingly enough the coach company, The Potteries Motor Traction Company, is still on the go. It’s now part of First Midlands a subsidiary of First Group.
So beautiful ,such class and so gracious ,thankyou .
Does anyone know who the families were?
A wonderful wedding film. Beautiful 🎉
My parents were married January 31st, 1953 in Weehawken, NJ USA. I was born Dec 9th, 1953, the first of 8 children. Dad died in March 2007 of lung cancer. But he was a true family man. Mom went home to the Lord March 2018. We love & miss you both dearly! Requiescant in Pace! ❤❤❤
I remember attending the wedding of my youngest aunt at the age of five years old during this era. I am now in my seventies. I found myself smiling gently and remembering “the way we we were…” thank you for this beautiful upload 🎈❤️🎈
Elegance classy beautiful best times
My wife says, that's what it was to be British.😊
Lovely modest dress. The bride's parents will have covered the bill, except for the cake and flowers and cars, which the groom traditionally covered.
It's interesting in traditional etiquette books who covered what . Might the honeymoon typically be covered by the groom's parents?
They will be 70 now but does not seem so long ago a beautiful time to grown up was in thje 1950s although times were very very poor for ordinary people , fathers having to work 7 days a week
This is clearly a society wedding or wealthy families to show off all the wedding cars
Very beautiful and I am sure their marriage lasted
More like 90 if they were 20 in this video
Isn’t that wonderful. I wasn’t even born in the 50’s but long for the simplicity of that time. Thank you for sharing.
So beautiful, remember when i was bridesmaid at cousin wedding,it was freezing November day,we had Woolies on under our dresses,
The good old days!
I LOVE the understated elegance and simplicity of the 5os and 60s weddings..
Elegance, more meaning no fluff, over the top..just simple beauty from her gown, candelabra, flowers..even the cake.
Ill take these wedding anyday over todays way out there expemse musicals..
Wow! And it is still the same today
Beautiful old video ❤
what a beautiful dress
The good old days. Real people.
Look at all those fur coats!
Yes aren't they lovely
Very sweet, people seem happy. Who are they?
How much wedding s have changed my mum and dad got married in 1952 1 bridesmaid hats very similar ❤ and outfits .
Cery classy.
England, no doubt!
The channel name does say 'UK photo archives' . I'm sure you are right.
@ingridpear1882 It certainly does have that British vibe!
@kathleenevans1201 🇬🇧🌂👒
I wonder if the bride and groom are still alive? Such a handsome couple.
Perhaps but in their late 80s... 90s? My mum and dad were married in 1958 my dad passed away earlier this year aged 89 my mum 11 years ago she went to sleep one night and didn't wake up she was just 74
Lindo . Muito lindo ❤️
Beautiful elegant and modest, unlike today's weddings (not all of course), but so romantic back then.
No false eye lashes, no overdone makeup, gorgeous classy and elegant all the way around. The bride looks pure, young, and sweet...
Fascinating.❤
Such a good world then not like now
Even the drivers looked distinguished! There was one lady that gave off major Queen Mother vibes.
What is that beautiful background music?
Just seems like the people who married in the fifties stayed married for 60-70 years. My parents included
Beautiful wedding
How lucky we were to live in this time.I was married in 1969.People were civilised,gracious and respectful.Compare these people to the horrendous creatures that vist that supermarket chain in America
Everyone looks very healthy, a healthy weight. No one is overweight. Make America healthy again.
These were definitely some well off people.
Precious memories i wonder if they are alive and still married
And no children!!!! They came AFTER wedding!!
Such a beautiful young couple. What happened to them? Were they happy? Did they have a long and successful life? Most of them a gone now and I don't know why it make me sad? Maybe because my parents got married in 1951, and it could have been them, and my grandparents on that movies. The little girls in their fancy dresses could have been my cousins ...
I wonder who they were.
These people look English.
When getting married meant ‘until death do you part’. Not like these days where it means little more than an expensive party.
Can’t help wondering who they were and how their life turned out.
lovely to watch after binging on wedding fails with all that pushing wedding cake into each others faces
When men and women actually GOT married!
A happy time for families coming out of the horror of WW2.
Do you know who they are
Is it me, or does the groom look like he’d rather be any other place than there? his body language looks like he would rather not be.
It’s you.