Family Wedding Photos
July 30th, 2007 @ 4:23 pm by Mrs. Peppermint
I’m compiling family wedding photos to be displayed at our reception. I’m hoping to arrange them in a frame (or frames?) as a visual family tree. After sending out an email to my family members, my Aunt sent me this one of my great-grandparents (my Dad’s Mother’s Parents), Viella & Otho. It’s so nice to have it preserved–and amusing to see how styles change! I’ll post some more of the photos as they come…
As an aside, my Grandmother (Dad’s Mom) & Aunt (Dad’s sister) both wore Viella’s dress.
These are my father’s paternal grandparents–sadly, he never knew them because they passed on while my grandfather was still a teenager. You’re probably wondering why there’s no wedding dress or flowers. Okay, they do not have a wedding photo. Truth be told (or at least, as speculated by my father), they most likely didn’t have the funds for such a novelty as a wedding photo (photography was relatively new, after all!). So, in lieu of a wedding photo, I’ve included their individual pictures.
Below we have great-grandfather Garfield. He’s pictured here with their horse, Ranger, who was a wedding present from his parents, Alex & Lilian.
And here we have great-grandmother, Pearl.
And I’m proud to present to you my parent’s wedding photos. This September (Sept. 10th, to be exact) they will be celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary. To celebrate, they are going to Hawaii for two weeks!! Thirty years ago they spent their honeymoon in Hawaii and will even be staying at one of the same hotels!
For you LA brides out there, this wedding cake is a Hansen’s cake! Their reception was held at the Odyssey Restaurant overlooking the San Fernando Valley–a favorite place my family still goes to on special occasions…
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15 Responses to “Family Wedding Photos”
Hansen’s is so good, and yet their cakes still kind of look like that one, which was the height of fashion 30 years ago!! And your g-grandma Pearl is beautiful!!!
Which Hawaiian island are they going to?
i love these old photos! i’m also displaying family photos around on the tables during cocktail hour. i think guests definitely get a kick out of seeing these nostalgic pictures. then maybe it will get people to circulate around more and meet one another as they look at the pictures.
Right now I have the Carpenters’ “We’ve Only Just Begun” in my head — possible soundtrack to your parents’ wedding?
I love the family wedding photo display… but I understand it doesn’t always fit, e.g., for families with divorced parents.
Yo - Pearl is BEAUTIFUL! This is cool - I wish my family had good pictures…sad…
My hair for my wedding will look much like great grandmother pearls! How funny!
i love looking at old wedding photos. it’s great that you have these little pieces of family history. 
you are so lucky to have these pictures….this is so neat. i often imagine what life was like back then and how lucky we are to have the internet at our finger-tips now…thanks for sharing.
We also collected wedding pictures from our friends and family for display around our wedding site. All of the 1970’s wedding photos taken inside a church looked exactly like your parents’ one. I actually jumped a little because I thought you might be related to my husband!
Wow…these are great pictures to have. Gotta love a Hansens cake….. Always great.
My mother had those same bridesmaids dresses in yellow! It must have been a popular style “back in the day”! It’s so great to see old wedding pics, thanks for sharing!
Those are great! My mom’s wedding dress was VERY similar to your mom’s with the long flowing transparent sleeves- it must have been popular 30 years ago! Thanks for sharing those!
My parents go married about a year after your’s and the dresses were very similar, except they had a “rainbow wedding”. The bridesmaids wore hats similar to your mother’s and also carried parasols! The guys had tan suits with chocolate brown accents. Very 70s!
My parents got married about a year after your’s and the dresses were very similar, except they had a “rainbow wedding”. The bridesmaids wore hats similar to your mother’s and also carried parasols! The guys had tan suits with chocolate brown accents. Very 70s!
Miss Peppermint, LA/Palm Springs
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Engagement Date: October 21, 2006
Wedding Date: December 2007
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About Me: I am a Southern California native who enjoys cooking, writing, travel and all things in the arts. Mr. Peppermint and I met in college and he proposed on our four year anniversary in one of our most special places, Joshua Tree National Park. We're having a destination wedding in Palms Springs that will incorporate tradition as well as reflect our personalities!
My parents got married in 1977 also and my mom had those same bridesmaids dresses but in seafoam green!