Free to Use and Reuse: Weddings

Weddings are celebrated throughout the year, but June is a favorite month. This selection of rights-free pictures highlights brides and grooms from many different customs and countries in the 18th to the 20th century.

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  Wedding March. Sheet music by John Philip Sousa, 1918. Music Division

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  Marriage of a colored soldier at Vicksburg by Chaplain Warren of the Freedmen's Bureau. Engraving from drawing by Alfred R. Waud, 1866. Prints & Photographs Division

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  Wedding of Crown Prince Yoshihito and Princess Kujō Sadako. Print by Torajirō Kasai, 1900. Prints & Photographs Division

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  Mrs. R.W. Sampson. Photo by Arnold Genthe, 1914. Prints & Photographs Division

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  Horse Eats Hat: Bride. Costume design drawing by Nat Karson.1936. Music Division

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  "Machine Age": A Groom. Costume design drawing by Emile Stoner and Robert Byrne for the Federal Theatre Project play, 1937. Music Division

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  Wishram Bride. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1910. Prints & Photographs Division

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  Dressing the Bride. Stereograph photo by Sterro-Photo Co., 1907. Prints & Photographs Division

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  A Turkish Bride in her Wedding Dress. Stereograph photo by Underwood & Underwood, 1918. Prints & Photographs Division

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  Marriage bureau. Photo by Bain News Service, 1915-1920. Prints & Photographs Division

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  Bedouin wedding series. The bride. Stereograph photo by the American Colony (Jerusalem), 1900-1920. Prints and Photographs Division

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  Art plus diplomacy. Washington, D.C. Photo by Harris and Ewing, 1939. Prints & Photographs Division

• South-Carolina. Know all men by these presents that we are held and firmly bound unto his Excellency ... Note: Marriage license is at bottom of page. 1767. Rare Books and Special Collections Division

• Marriage certificate (blank form). Print by N. Currier, 1848. Prints & Photographs Division

• Marriage Evening. Print by Currier & Ives, 1860s. Prints & Photograph Division

• Come, haste to the wedding. Song sheet by H.D. Marsan, 1860. Music Division

• Godey's fashions for December 1861. Fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book. Prints & Photographs Division

• Fairy Wedding Group. "General Tom Thumb" and Mercy Lavinia Warren Bump. Photo by Mathew Brady Studio, 1863. Prints & Photographs Division

• Marriage at the camp of the 7th N.J.V. Army of the Potomac, Virginia. Drawing by Alfred R. Waud, March 18, 1863. Prints & Photographs Division

• Marriage Certificate for Murray D. Lamson and Alvina B. Burrill with oval cut outs for photographs. Drawing by H.B. Stockwell, 1871. Prints & Photographs Division

• Tajik wedding rituals: wedding gifts. Photograph in Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, 1871-1872. Prints & Photographs Division

• Domestic Sewing Machine. Print by W.J. Morgan & Co, 1882. Prints & Photographs Division

• James A. Garfield Papers: Series 21, Additions, 1775-1889; 1980 Addition; Family papers; Stanley-Brown, Mary Garfield; Wedding announcement, Joseph Stanley-Brown, 1888. Manuscript Division

• Wedding picture. Photo by W.J. Hazenstab, 1894. Prints & Photographs Division

• Hopi Bridal Costume. Photo by Edward S. Curtis, 1900. Prints & Photographs Division

• June Flowers. Cover illustration drawn by Rose O'Neill for Puck magazine, 1905. Prints & Photographs Division

• A Chinese Bride and Groom. Stereograph photo by Keystone View Co., 1905. Prints & Photographs Division

• Photograph with caption “Eskimo wedding ... Alaska." St. Michael was a trading post for the Yup’ik people, established by the Russian-American Company in 1833. Here Alaska Natives traded goods for Western supplies such as much of the clothing in this image. Photo by Huey and Laws, 1906. Prints & Photographs Division

• President Roosevelt, with Alice Roosevelt-Longworth and Hon. Nicholas Longworth in bridal array. Stereograph photo by Charles L. Wasson, 1906. Prints & Photographs Division

• Sealing Their Bliss. Stereograph photo by Sterro-Photo Co., 1907. Prints & Photographs Division

• She was led to the altar. 1908. Prints and Photographs Division

• Wedding Bells. Sheet Music by J. Fred Helf and Robert F. Roden, 1909. Music Division

• Warning to royal brides. Do not marry him if the seal is broken. Cover illustration by Samuel D. Ehrhart for Puck magazine, 1913. Prints and Photographs Division

• The Wedding (kittens). Photo by Harry Frees, 1914. Prints & Photographs Division

• Breese wedding. Photograph by Arnold Genthe, 1915. Prints & Photographs Division

• <p>Let the Chimes of Normandy be our Wedding Bells.</p> <p>Sheet Music by F. Henri Klickmann and Paul B. Armstrong, 1918. Music Division</p>

• Wedding Bells: Will You Ever Ring for Me? Sheet music by Jean Schwartz, Sam M. Lewis, and Joe Young, 1918. Music Division

• Soldier's Usual Sweet Aspirations. Sheet music by Henry J. Martin, 1919. Music Division

• Polish Bride and Groom. Photograph for the American National Red Cross, 1920. Prints & Photographs Division

• Bridegroom's first view of his future wife, Chosen, Korea. Stereograph photo by Keystone View Co., 1920. Prints & Photographs Division

• The Bridal Outfit, a noteworthy display at the fashion show. Photograph by Underwood & Underwood, 1921. Prints & Photographs Division

• Better[?] Ole Wedding. Photo by National Photo Company, 1921 or 1922. Prints & Photographs Division

• Hindu Bridal Party. Half of a stereograph photo by Keystone View Co., 1922. Prints & Photographs Division

• Military weddings. Photo by Harris & Ewing, 1927 or 1928. Prints & Photographs Division

• Trial by Jury: Angeline. Bride's dress with long white veil. Costume design drawing by Emile Stoner. 1936. Music Division

• Florida Senator and bride on way to opening session (Senator and Mrs. Claude Pepper). Photo by Harris & Ewing, 1937 Jan. 5. Prints & Photographs Division

• Closer snap of bride & groom [Miss Olwen Wainright and Mr. Walter Peter Purcell-Gilpin] showing guard of honour made up of British police. Photo by American Colony (Jerusalem), 1938. Prints & Photographs Division

• Large group of bride, groom and friends in military uniforms. Photo by Matson Photo Service, 1940-1946. Prints & Photographs Division

• Wedding at St. George's Cathedral, Jerusalem. Photo by Matson Photo Service, June 3, 1942. Prints & Photographs Division

• John Kennedy and Jackie Bouvier on their wedding day. Photo by Toni Frissell, Sept. 12, 1953. Prints & Photographs Division

• Wedding ceremony of Tricia Nixon and Edward Cox, Rose Garden. Official White House photograph, June 12, 1971. Prints & Photographs Division

• Transylvanian Saxon costume shown by Martin and Sara Schwarz, Chicago, Illinois. Mannequin bride with Stefan Roth as bridegroom holding traditional flower bouquet. Photo by Jonas Dovydenas, 1977. American Folklife Center

• Wedding of Sopheap Kuth and Pen Hing, Lowell, Massachusetts. Photo by David Taylor, 1987. American Folklife Center

• Misty and Wesley Scarbrough's wedding. Photograph by Lyntha Scott Eiler, Oct. 3, 1996. American Folklife Center