The 1950s was the boom period of dresses and gowns, and wedding dresses in this period were no exception! Tea length wedding gowns and Rockabilly swing dresses, tulle ballgowns, and elegant lace long sleeve dresses are only a few of the 1950s wedding dresses that are popular again today.
Elizabeth Taylor, Brigitte Bardot, Audrey Hepburn, or Grace Kelly,… they all had different styles of bridal dresses on their wedding days from the 1950s, and they were really glamorous.
British ballet dancer and actress Moira Shearer photographed by Jane Brown, 1950Elizabeth Taylor in ‘Father of the Bride’, 1950Elizabeth Taylor’s first marriage, she wed hotel heir Conrad ‘Nicky’ Hilton in a gown designed by Hollywood costumer Helen Rose, 1950American actress Arlene Dahl and Lex Barker, 1951Chilean actress Felicia Cohn Montealegre married American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, 1951Brigitte Bardot on her first wedding day to Roger Vadim, 1952Esther Williams poses in a wedding dress, 1952Joan Collins at her first wedding to Maxwell Reed , 1952Jacqueline Bouvier married then-U.S. Representative John Fitzgerald ‘Jack’ Kennedy in September 1953 in Newport, Rhode Island. Her beautiful gown was designed by Ann Cole Lowe, an African American designer from Alabama who designed gowns for many of the upper crust of New York and HollywoodJacqueline Bouvier on her wedding day, 1953Jane O’Neil’s wedding dress, 1953Singer and actress Peggy Lee married husband Brad Dexter in Los Angeles, 1953Actors Fred MacMurray and June Haver married on June 28, 1954 in a simple ceremony in Ojai, CaliforniaActress Pier Angeli married singer Vic Damone in November of 1954. Her white, silk chiffon gown was designed by Helen Rose, the Hollywood film costumer who also designed Grace Kelly’s iconic wedding gownActress Suzan Ball married fellow actor Richard Long in 1954 while battling cancer that had developed in her right leg. Tragically, she passed away just one year later at the age of 21Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer on their wedding day in Burgenstock, Switzerland, 1954Audrey Hepburn on her wedding day, 1954English actors Denholm Elliott and Virginia McKenna married, 1954Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds on their wedding day, 1955Grace Kelly in her wedding dress, 1956Grace Kelly in her wedding dress, 1956Grace Kelly with her wedding party, 1956Lady Anne Glenconner in wedding gown designed by Norman Hartnell on her wedding day, 1956Marilyn Monroe on her wedding day, 1956American actress Jean Seberg married first husband French attorney (and aspiring filmmaker) François Moreuil in 1958 in Seberg’s hometown of Marshalltown, IowaHollywood actress Debra Paget married David Street in Los Angeles, California, 1958Jackie Loughery, winner of the first Miss USA pageant, married actor Jack Webb in Los Angeles, California, 1958Jayne Mansfield in her wedding gown for her marriage to Mickey Hargitay, January 13, 1958Singer Ronnie Carroll married actress Millicent Martin, 1958Brigitte Bardot and Jacques Charrier on their wedding day, 1959Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher at their wedding, 1959Julie Andrews on her wedding day, 1959
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