June is for Brides...

Happy June 1st! June is for brides! I have some photos from the archives...I am still working on the setup of my 1980's Wedding day Midge and Allan set.. but for now, I will post photos from my past sets of brides...

 

And finally, these photos are saved from a collector on one of the Barbie Facebook diorama groups, he was an incredible vintage collector who had built this set . I have forgotten his name but I saved these photos for inspiration for my own wedding chapel set and felt they should be shared. They are not mine. 

I hope you were inspired for your own Barbie and Ken wedding with this set from this incredible collector, I have long wanted to build a chapel for my Barbies to have weddings and Baptisms. Just seems a wonderful thing with the clothing sets Mattel has done and I am hoping to do a great diorama once I gather the necessary items for the dolls. Enjoy!

Becky and Malibu Franci in vintage wedding gowns

I have already shown Malibu Francie in Wedding Whirl, but I did a scene with reproduction Becky in a clone? White Wedding dress from 1972-1973 . I cannot find anything in the Barbie reference books, but plenty on Google Lens and Etsy and Ebay. It is referred to as 'White Wedding 1972 or 1973" and sometimes as a clone dress. It does not have a Mattel tag in it, but looks suspiciously like a Mattel dress. I tried it on Becky who is smaller than Barbie and it fit her, I am going to try it in another photo and see it on my vintage Barbie or PJ and see if looks a little more fillled out, since Becky is more of a teenager than Barbie. 

 

Poppy Parker as a bride....

These are all images from my archives, of Poppy Parker wearing a repro Barbie wedding gown. I am working on more wedding photos soon. Enjoy!

 

Welcome June- Month of Brides

June is here- month of weddings and brides. I am hoping to do bridal photos and different themed photos this month of brides and different dolls in bridesmaids dresses, bridal gowns, etc. 

My reproduction Barbie and Ken wedding set is something I found on sale back in the day at Tuesday Morning, I adore this set and my aunt had the real vintage gown when she was a girl. On my grail list is the vintage Barbie and Ken case with the wedding party on the front and the Skipper flower girl complete set and the Midge bridesmaid set complete. I am hoping to take some photos of my other bridal gowns I have on the other dolls, to add to this blog. June is such a beautiful month with weddings. 

 

June- the month of Weddings..

 June is the month of weddings. I have been going through my wedding attire collection to see what photos I could do with bridesmaids, brides, grooms, etc. I have this 50th wedding Barbie and Ken edition that I keep in the box that I purchased long ago on sale at Tuesday Morning, years ago, and I love it. They are still attached at the hand. I love them together. I have been attempting to collect Skipper and Midge's vintage wedding attire and was surprised I had Skipper's orange blossom dress as well as the later long pink dress. 

I made the tiered yellow wedding cake, long ago- out of paper clay. The table is Bespaq, and the chair is from Barbie Collector. I am working on more photos of Poppy Parker in vintage/repro gowns for the wedding season, so stay tuned for more fun photos.