Wedding atire, 1932

[Karen McDonald]

Hi everybody,

I don't need this photo cleaned or dated. 
I would, however, be grateful for opinions as to whether it might have been a wedding photo. My grandparents married in 1932, when he was 22 and she was 19.

If they didn't have a big white wedding, might these have been their wedding outfits?

Thanks,
Karen

[Treetotal]

Hi Karen...
It could be, Not everyone wore traditional wedding attire, they just wore their Sunday Best outfits which are more practical and serviceable.
Carol

[fiddlerslass]

Did they have a registry office wedding?

I would have expected them to have a buttonhole flower or corsage if it was a wedding. Perhaps it is the engagement?

[Treetotal]

Yes I thought about that too, my Grandparent's got married in a Register Office, and looking at their photo, They are both nicely dressed but no sign of flowers, but they were married late in the year.
She wore a pretty blouse with a skirt with a frill round the bottom, Grandad wore a three piece suit with am Albert watch chain.
They looked lovely but they were not very well off and they both came from big working class Families.
They are not smiling either.
Carol

[BumbleB]

OH and I married in August, 1964 in a Register Office.  No flowers, but I did wear a hat  and both of us wore a suit.

My parents married in 1933, in church, but not the full wedding regalia - she wore a dress (not the traditional wedding dress) and hat, and my father wore a 3-piece suit.  Both wore button-holes, as did the best man and bridesmaid.

[louisa maud]

You are just a step ahead of us on anniversaries Bumble, 29th August 1964.

LM

[BumbleB]

Don't want to take over this thread, but - LM.  We met in early 1964 in lodgings, got thrown out one night by the others for having a newspaper fight, so went to the pub.  Continued during weekdays, then I got my sailing date as I was emigrating to NZ.  "Don't go to NZ, come to London with me and we'll get married."  So I did that and we'v been together ever since. 

[louisa maud]

A lovely story.

I think over the years people have married in either what they could afford or what they preferred,  most of my aunts, long gone had white wedding dresses  but nothing like you see now, I imagine my grandparents didn't but as always they  chose what they could afford, I was talking to our plumber  yesterday who told us his friends wedding  recently cost over 60K, i said " I hope she  was worth it  "
 
Nice photo KM.

LM

[Karen McDonald]

Hi everybody,

After days of being shut out due to "Database Error", I am back in! Yay! 
Thanks for all the replies.

Firstly, that's a good point re: flowers/buttonhole. Maybe it was their engagement photo.
(It is a lovely photo, isn't it?
The wedding was in a Register Office.

As for the other comments: I was born in 1964. 

Thanks again!
Karen