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.
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.
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| British ballet dancer and actress Moira Shearer photographed by Jane Brown, 1950 |
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| Elizabeth Taylor in ‘Father of the Bride’, 1950 |
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| Elizabeth Taylor’s first marriage, she wed hotel heir Conrad 'Nicky' Hilton in a gown designed by Hollywood costumer Helen Rose, 1950 |
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| American actress Arlene Dahl and Lex Barker, 1951 |
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| Chilean actress Felicia Cohn Montealegre married American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, 1951 |
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| Brigitte Bardot on her first wedding day to Roger Vadim, 1952 |
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| Esther Williams poses in a wedding dress, 1952 |
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| Joan Collins at her first wedding to Maxwell Reed , 1952 |
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| Jacqueline 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 Hollywood |
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| Jacqueline Bouvier on her wedding day, 1953 |
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| Jane O'Neil's wedding dress, 1953 |
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| Singer and actress Peggy Lee married husband Brad Dexter in Los Angeles, 1953 |
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| Actors Fred MacMurray and June Haver married on June 28, 1954 in a simple ceremony in Ojai, California |
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| Actress 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 gown |
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| Actress 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 21 |
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| Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer on their wedding day in Burgenstock, Switzerland, 1954 |
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| Audrey Hepburn on her wedding day, 1954 |
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| English actors Denholm Elliott and Virginia McKenna married, 1954 |
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| Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds on their wedding day, 1955 |
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| Grace Kelly in her wedding dress, 1956 |
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| Grace Kelly in her wedding gown, 1956 |
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| Grace Kelly with her wedding party, 1956 |
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| Lady Anne Glenconner in wedding gown designed by Norman Hartnell on her wedding day, 1956 |
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| Marilyn Monroe on her wedding day, 1956 |
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| American actress Jean Seberg married first husband French attorney (and aspiring filmmaker) François Moreuil in 1958 in Seberg’s hometown of Marshalltown, Iowa |
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| Hollywood actress Debra Paget married David Street in Los Angeles, California, 1958 |
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| Jackie Loughery, winner of the first Miss USA pageant, married actor Jack Webb in Los Angeles, California, 1958 |
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| Jayne Mansfield in her wedding gown for her marriage to Mickey Hargitay, January 13, 1958 |
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| Singer Ronnie Carroll married actress Millicent Martin, 1958 |
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| Brigitte Bardot and Jacques Charrier on their wedding day, 1959 |
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| Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher at their wedding, 1959 |
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| Julie Andrews on her wedding day, 1959 |
