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1890s wedding party

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1890s wedding party

Most 19th-century wedding photos feature tightly corsetted women and solemn-looking men, but this photograph of the wedding party at the marriage of Annie Hill and the Reverend Frederick William Chatterton (seated, centre) is delightfully and unusually informal, with family and friends gathered around.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Brian Bell Collection

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Megan Cook, Marriage and partnering – Weddings, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/30795/1890s-wedding-party (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Megan Cook, published 21 April 2011, updated 1 May 2017.