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What you are seeing is a photographer's backdrop, according to a book I have read, some photographers had more than one backdrop to suit the occasion. You can clearly see the fold at the bottom where it meets the ground.
BB, the bouquet would have been her own, her husbands buttonhole also. Although photographers often had props, I doubt that flowers would have been provided.
Carol
That's interesting, Info about 1920s studio props, but this is an Edwardian image, but could still n
Be the case if the ocassion warranted flowers.
Carol
Carol
Funnily enough, I was part of a conversation about this at a local museum event today. Someone said her grandparents married in the 1920s and had studio photos taken which included a bridal bouquet of wax flowers which were a photographer's prop and were re-used.
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