Retro weddings are so in right now, so why not take inspiration from the cuties that actually got hitched back when cat eye glasses and big hair were all the rage?
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Originally appeared at BuzzFeed
1. Classic Elegance
Flickr: brookeipse
2. Getting Pelted With Rice
Flickr: 39912203@N07
3. A Sailor and His Lady
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4. A Handsome Couple in the Back Seat
Flickr: ravissant74
5. Those Bangs! That Smile!
6. Getting a piece.
Flickr: rossiter
7. The Most Radiant Bride’s Smile
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8. Sass and Glasses
Flickr: 36041246@N00
9. An Extremely Excited Groom
Flickr: wdwbarber
10. Emerging from the church
Flickr: pekha
11. Champagne fountain
12. Smooch
Flickr: 22637269@N08
48 more fantastic vintage wedding shots, at BuzzFeed
These are FABULOUS pictures. I would have liked to have attended these wedding. I cry at weddings. Let us not forget, however, that until the Supreme Court decision in Loving v. Virginia as late as 1967, a number of southern states made it illegal for people of different so-called “races” to have sexual relations, let alone to marry. In addition, not until 2004 when Massachusetts became the first state, could any same-sex couple marry. This is still the case in the majority of states across the country. We have as a nation come far, but we have further to go.