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 O Say Can You See 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.

Gay Rights March

National Museum of American History
The Oxford Book of Marriage

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Young Woman's Wedding Dress

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
Marriage necklace (chettiar thali)

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Silk Skirt Of Wedding Costume

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
1880 Satin Brocade Wedding Gown, NMHT

Smithsonian Archives - History Div
Wedding Cake Figure

National Museum of American History
Design for Wedding Canopy

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
A Wedding

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Wedding Tablets (Ketubah)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Study for "Wedding Procession"

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Jewish Bride, Constantinople

Smithsonian American Art Museum
Study for "Wedding Procession"

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
44c Wedding Rings single

National Postal Museum
Wedding Portrait of Bride and Groom Cutting the Wedding Cake

National Museum of African American History and Culture
65c Wedding Cake single

National Postal Museum
63c Wedding Dove single

National Postal Museum
Wedding Celebration (Ketu

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Forever Wedding Roses single

National Postal Museum
Double Wedding Ring Quilt

Anacostia Community Museum
“Swedish Wedding March”

National Museum of American History
Postcard of "The Wedding Procession of Prince Dara-Shikoh"

Smithsonian Archives - History Div
Mr. and Mrs. "General Tom Thumb" in their Wedding Costume

National Portrait Gallery
Up went O'Connor on his wedding day a new comic song by Bodine and Maywood

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

National Portrait Gallery
Three Views of a Wedding Canopy, Beth Am Synagogue, Los Altos, CA

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Wedding Invitation, Los Angeles, July 30, 1994: "Help Them Celebrate their Marriage"

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
A flower wedding : described by two wallflowers / decorated by Walter Crane

Smithsonian Libraries
Fan

Smithsonian American Art Museum
Eugenie Empress of the French in Her Bridal Costume

Smithsonian American Art Museum
Alice Barney in White Satin

Smithsonian American Art Museum
Woman in Bridal Dress

National Museum of American History
Isaac Mizrahi: Model in bridal dress

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Bridal Portrait of Mrs. Julian Clarence Levi, Falk Studio, Waldorf Astoria, New York

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Candida's Bridal Party, Chelsea

National Museum of African American History and Culture

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