Figure 1.--Here we see an American wedding party in 1913. Unfortunately we do not note where the photograph was taken. The girl is presumavly the flower girl and the boy the ring bearer. Click on the image to see the rest of the wedding oparty including the flower girl.+ |
we have not yet begun to seriously reserch country wedding trends. Our archive of wedding images is very limited. Here we are interested both in the attendees and the wedding party. Hopefully readers will provide us information about wedding traditions in their countries. We suspect that Victorian England played a major role in establishing modern wedding conventions. Of course a country like the United States people with immigrants from many different countries has a wide variety of wedding trafditions. We notice some countries which use ethnic costumes for weddings. One example is the kilts worn by men and boys at Scottish weddings. One the previous page we see a German wedding (figure 1). We also have someinformation about American weddings. We have collected information on several specific American weddings. We also have some information on French weddings.
We also have someinformation about American weddings. We have collected information on several specific American weddings. Some images are available at actual weddings from various eras. HBC has just begun to collect information on these weddings. In some cases only the image is available. In other instances some
information is avaialble on the wedding. Some HBC readers have provided infprmation about weddinggs that they or their parents have participated in and we this have more details about these weddings. There are also some famous society weddings which
we also eventually hope to add to this section. Currently we only have information on American weddings, but we hope to eventually add information on foreign weddings as well. We are organizing this section chronlogically.
We do not yet have much information on Canadian weddings. We do have one portrait from what may be a World War I wedding in Toronto.
Many important wedding traditions originated in Europe during the Victorian era. They were a major influence on American weddings and have come to be common in many other countries around the world.
We also have some information on French weddings. We do not have much information about French weddings. France of course is a Catholic country and the wedding traditions ar Catholic. Even so I believe many poor people did not marry formally before the Revolution (1789). A strong anticlerical trend developed with the Revolution which was moving toward a kind secular religion. This of course affected wedding trends. This was stopped by Napoleon, but throughout the 19th century there was a conflict between the Church and liberals. Even so most French people wanted a Church wedding. A lot of American wedding traditiins come from Vctorian Britain. We know much less about French wedding traditions. I am not sure about modern trends in France. Another factor is France's growing Muslim population.
We do not yet have much information on German weddings. We do not know about any specifically German wedding traditions. Hopefully our German readers will provide us some insights. Most of the images we have seen look rather like weddings in other Western European countries. We have a few German wedding traditions, but not yet enough to assess German weddings in any detail. Germany was both Protestant and Catholic thus there were a range of traditions involved. There was by the 20th century a strong socialist movement, thus we suspect that many Germans, especially working-class Germans, were married outdide the church. We see a German wedding in 1932bon the previous page. It looks rather like a modest income, working-class family family. We suspect that it represents a good idea of how many Germans married in the 1930s.
We notice some countries which use ethnic costumes for weddings. One example is the kilts worn by men and boys at Scottish weddings.
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