
An Edwardian wedding with some extremely large hats
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 6 August 1910

The stylish trappings of a military wedding in 1911
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 7 October 1911

Sailor suits and other pre-WWI wedding essentials: look out for changes in style as we enter wartime
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 21 June 1913

A grand wedding of one of Pittville’s grandest families, the Winterbothams
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 12 July 1913

Floral displays everywhere, at another typical pre-WWI wedding
(watch out for a repeat of the newspaper caption later...)
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 12 July 1913

Just on the eve of war, with smaller hats already in evidence
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 1 August 1914

A wartime wedding, and time for shorter skirts, and smaller hats, and uniforms
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 20 February 1915

This time round, a more restrained wartime Winterbotham wedding
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 20 February 1915

Smiles amidst the gloom as Armistice Day approaches, at the wedding of Nancy Lewis Grist of Wellington Square
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 2 November 1918

And a distinct change of style after the war, with skirt lengths still rising and some very strange headgear
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 3 May 1919

One of the Chronicle's first 1920s wedding snaps
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 12 February 1921

Cloche hats vied with top hats at the Littledale wedding in 1925 (mother and sister of the bride)
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 2 May 1925
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A typical 1920s society wedding for Elsie Grant
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 13 June 1925

Short skirts and lounge suits are the order of the day at Phyllis Compton's 1926 wedding
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 17 April 1926

And cloche hats galore at Marjorie Silk's flapper wedding
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 16 June 1926
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Yet another 'interesting' wedding, as the paper has learnt to call them
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 19 January 1929

Margaret Davies's 'interesting' wedding in 1929
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 27 July 1929

Top hat, tails, and spats for Elsbeth Grist's bridegroom in 1929
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 3 August 1929
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Cloche hats were still all the rage for Marjorie Webb's wedding in 1931
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 9 May 1931

The newspaper caption almost seems to write itself for Gwendoline Bayston's wedding in 1932
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 12 November 1932

During the 1930s longer dresses came back into fashion again, as at Joyce Bailey's wedding in 1933.
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 16 September 1933

Kathleen Benfield's wedding in 1933.
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 11 November 1933

This 1934 wedding (Florence Smith) was a restrained affair compared to some of the elaborate pre-war weddings.
But they all seem happy enough.
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 13 January 1934

Another wedding from the early months of the Second World War
– the bride in a simple outfit and the groom in uniform with a military guard of honour.
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 18 November 1939

A wedding from 1941 with the groom and best man in RAF uniform and the bride in a simple dress.
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 12 April 1941
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A wartime wedding of two neighbours from Pittville Circus Road.
Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 26 April 1941
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