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!
It sure looks the part!
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.
My thoughts exactly on that Dodge. Looks like they were eager to start a family.
My parents were married in ’59 on a day of 108F, and drove off from the reception in dad’s miserablist, black ’48 Morris 10. It too had been helpfully adorned with “Just Married” (and their names) in some white substance, but what with the heat and enamel paint, they remained an advertisement for “Just Married” until the car was traded about a year later.
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.
Great picture!
Thanks!
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.
Love that 1964 Dodge 440 wagon in the second to last picture.
I took the wrong decision about 20 years ago when an muscle car dealer had one in the back yard. It came to him as an unwanted car with a batch of imported Chargers and other muscle cars. Original paint faded but still acceptable, not rusty, seats needed renewal but mechanically fine with the 383 and 727. Loved it, was not too expensive but I just could not make “a business case” for it. Too many cars, too busy with other things, you know the drill.
Very, very rare here in Europe.
That Rambler was registered in Glens Falls, New York. Back in the day, New York State license plates identified location of registry. When the DMC ran out of the correct letters, they were reversed. So, GF and FG. LG for Lake George. E for Erie County (Buffalo) and late EE. BX for The Bronx and later XB. Other letter combinations had to be used for areas such as New York City. Our 1950 Doge was registered that year with plate # MQ-428. Love wedding cars. Thanks.
The picture with the Dodge wagon was taken in Appleton, Wisconsin – I was able to find its location thanks to the car dealer billboard in the background. Then-and-now shots from that location are below.
Google StreetView Link:
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If that Rambler American was anything like the one my parents had the couple was lucky that they had a sunny day to get married. Ours was not reliable in damp rainy weather, or as my father said “it wouldn’t start if a dog lifted his leg on the tire!”
My mother in February 1953 although I have no idea what the car is. I wasn’t around till December.
What a lovely photograph! We are reminded of the days when brides did not wear strapless “titty gowns.” The limousine is a Cadillac. I would say that it is a post-War model from 1947 to 1949. The hood ornament is Cadillac. I looked at this and the Buick hood ornaments to clarify.
Our wedding car to the church and reception was a black ’64 Cadillac Fleetwood 75 division window Limousine, but the car that we left the reception in for our honeymoon was our ’67 Volvo 122s… cars about as far apart as you can get unless it had been a VW beetle.
I wonder how long it took the couple in the ’61 Chevy convertible to start looking for something like the couple in the Dodge wagon already had.
My wife had a Mustang LX convertible when we got married. My convertible love was extinguished by our 2 first car seats and didn’t come back until the kids were out of the house and off the payroll.
Love the picture with the 2dr hrtop 1954 Belair in that orange color with white top, and then you see the 53 210 parked front it all ugly, whoever had that 54 took care of it
Used my 1938 Buick special sedan in our 1976 wedding. A 72 Continental overheated and broke down. Buick was fine