Let’s go for a bit of variety with this mix of images of couples tying the knot. As I mentioned last time I covered the topic, the picking of a car for the occasion was certainly an important matter. Something that will be clear in more than a few of these images; the mix of vehicles is quite varied. From luxury makes to humble ones, though most in celebratory garb regardless of means.
The images are generally joyful, as can be expected, with a few verging on the intendedly comical.
The Cadillac looks to be an OFFER you CAN’T refuse! 🏰 👨 🔫 . A shotgun wedding? SPEAK SOFTLY 😉
I thought it was a color ‘still’ from ‘The Godfather’!
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I had the same thought!
I feel a bit sorry for the bride having to climb into the back of that Dodge station wagon. Still, it’s quite a bit nicer than what Stephanie got into on our wedding day: my 10-year old ’68 Dodge A100 van. But she was a good sport.
I used shaving cream to write a bunch of stuff on my younger brother’s Pinto when he got married. But after he washed it, the writing was still visible, having done something to the paint, probably removing its surface oxidation. He was pissed at me.
December 1982 was a great time for a getaway in our 19701 Pontiac T-37!
Yet another GTO with full wheel covers. We borrowed my mother’s Volvo 240 wagon to haul visiting guests before our wedding, since both us had pickups at the time (this was well before the prevalence of quad-cabs) and used it for our honeymoon as well. Our first local one-night honeymoon that is; we later took an extended honeymoon on the opposite coast in my wife’s mom’s 1st gen Camry. At the time those were just 3 or 4 year old cars, both now true CC’s. Our 1980’s pickups too, in fact. Only a handful of wedding pictures and none of them with the cars.
A friend of my wife’s from high school drove us around after our wedding 50 years ago in his inherited 1950 Lincoln.
My favorite photo is the one with the green 1949 or 1950 Ford with Illinois plates. In particular I love the facial expression of the woman (who may or may not be the bride, I can’t tell) barely in the frame of the photo. You just see a bit of her face, but the pure joy in that expression is absolutely wonderful and something that’s actually seldom captured on film. Probably because she had no idea that she was being photographed by the photographer at that particular instant.
These photos remind me that I seldom see “wedding cars” nowadays. Cars with streamers, dragging cans, marked up with shaving cream (or spray snow in my case…also never came off), etc. seem rare. I much more often see cars similarly decorated for graduating high school seniors or championship high school sports teams. But not for weddings.