A Snapshot of Love from our Collection, to Celebrate Engagement Season!

啊，订婚季节：当每年40％的年度参与时，感恩节与情人节（根据婚礼供应商的“婚礼圣诞节”）之间的神奇时间。夫妻利用假期正式提出问题，在上面打了戒指，然后开始计划他们的梦想婚礼，这可能是他们将举行的最大活动。

当然，由于共同，今年的婚礼看起来有些不同（好的，很多） - 也许也将进入2021年。亚博平台网址水手博物馆和公园是人们作为私人活动场地的婚礼的一部分，我可以直接告诉您，我们非常想念我们的订婚夫妇。

因此，由于目前我目前没有帮助人们计划他们的重要日子，所以我想我会搜索与婚礼和婚姻有关的文物，以庆祝这个爱情的季节！

队长可以嫁给我们！

As America’s National Maritime Museum, I thought surely we would have information in our Library on ship captains marrying people at sea. That happens, right? Turns out, not really (I know, I’m shocked as well). It’s actually an old fable – propagated by movies – which cruise lines are very happy to play up. Captains of cruise ships have to become wedding officiants, or they have someone else perform the legal portion of the ceremony. Who knew??

So someone, other than another captain, married these two lovely folks – whaling Captain C.H. Becker and his bride Barbara E. Klock. Luckily, wedding photography has come a long way since 1858 when this daguerreotype was taken. Not much is known about the couple, but it is interesting to note that the bride isn’t wearing white – a trend Queen Victoria of England made popular when she married her husband Prince Albert in 1840. Mrs. Becker was probably a much more practical woman, and wedding gowns could be any color at that time and were made to be worn many times.

无论如何，谁需要白色连衣裙

During World War II, brides often donned their military uniform instead of a wedding gown – partly due to lack of cloth and also a lack of time. We see that here with Technician Fifth Grade Alice Friel, who married Private Lionel Escude on Feb. 2, 1945 at the Hampton Roads Point of Embarkation Chapel in Newport News, Va. One bride who got married in 1947 after the war used her groom’s nylon parachute to make a beautiful white gown with a train. That dress is now housed at the Smithsonian. Check it out here!https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/snapshot/parachute-wedding-dress

One Ring to Rule…Well, You Know the Rest

Whatever the wedding couple decides to wear, we all know the most critical piece of a ceremony is the ring! As many movies have shown us, chaos ensues if the ring is lost, stolen, misplaced, or otherwise absent. The Museum has three gold wedding bands in its Collection that we received from the Huntington estate. Two are fairly plain, but the third one has an inscription that reads“May the wearer be as happy as she is good, then she will know no sorrow.”There is another inscription, possibly a name, but it is too faint to read.

Nothing Says Love Like Reindeer

Of course, if rings aren’t your thing you can always grab a walrus tusk and carve your proposal onto it, like this Inuit native did for his future wife. This piece of undated scrimshaw includes a scene of kayaks, reindeer or caribou, a dog sled, bowhead whale, snowshoes, hunters, and an Inuit woman – presumably the bride. Talk about a labor of love!

Love Is All

所有这些文物的共同点是，它们表明爱是永恒的。尽管库维德和任何其他世界动荡，但爱仍在继续。人们发现彼此，坠入爱河，并希望将他们的生活联系在一起。而且他们有白色连衣裙，戒指还是海象象牙……生活和爱，都没有关系。尽管许多2020年的婚礼夫妇不得不调整他们的大日子的外观（或大日子的实际日期），但最终，两者将成为一个，这很重要。

So to all of you getting engaged this holiday season, congratulations! And to those of you waiting to schedule your wedding, be patient. Better days are definitely ahead. Enjoy your love for one another. And when you’re ready to begin planning your wedding, please do check out the Museum! I’d love to meet you.https://sites.google.com/m.boxorats.com/weddings/take-a-virtual-tour