Schmidt Wedding

Yes!
And her husband has HUGE hands....wonder how tall he was 🤔

Something about the perspective is off, it's like a fishbowl effect.

I think it looks like that because of the sleeves being puffed at the shoulder. Remember Lady Diana's wedding dress? That puffy shoulder style creates a funny illusion.

Omg I thought the same thing... and his hands are huge...

necklace down past waist also

Ernie Ames Even today's camera take what is closest to its eye which enlarges it. Like noses that look three times their size.

That's the way they use to wear the necklaces.

I thought so too. An awkward teen.

I doubt she’s even 13.

And who gets to judge others?

They all look fine to me. " Judge not ....that Ye be judged"

I haven't seen a mean comment yet on this thread. WTH are you talking about?

My grandparents were born in 1897 & 1907. She was 15, he was 25 when they got married. They were married until my grandfather died in 1984. It was common for the man to take a young bride!

My folks married in the mid 1920's. My dad was 23 and my mom had just turned 16. That was considered very common.

I think back then a lot of ppl were poor and they had several kids. It might have been one way of having one less mouth to feed!!

In some cases, yes, like with more well-off families where the daughters were not supposed to go out to jobs. But in other cases, as with the poor and lower classes, the older kids often had some sort of jobs as well or contributed in some way to the family's survival.

Young married couples often lived with the bride's or groom's family because they couldn't afford a separate residence, and the family gained another person bringing in an income or helping to work on the farm without being paid, like a hired hand would be.

My dad was the oldest in his family, and, when he married my mom in the 1920s, she moved in with him with his family. His 3 youngest siblings were 2, 5, and 7 years old! My mom was there to help with the cooking, cleaning, and minding her little in-laws and also held a night shift job at a sewing factory and added to the family's income.

My mom was the 2nd youngest in her family, so when her older brothers got married, they brought their wives to live on the farm...where more hands were always needed...for several years before they got their own homes. It wasn't till her mother, who was a widow, moved into town because the farm was too much for her to handle that the older brothers set up their own residences. One brother actually stayed on the farm and built his own house after most of the acreage and the old house was sold.

I think that's one of the disadvantages of modern nuclear families. It used to be that grandparents and sometimes aunts and uncles lived more communally and helped raise the kids, provided income, and created a stronger sense of family. We've lost that aspect in favor of an independence that doesn't always give kids the sense of security and worth they might have had from living with extended family.

That's in general, of course. Some families in some regions of the country still do either live together or at least nearby.

Quite young, I'd say

She looks hopeful tho, not fearful. I think she must have remained quite small. I wonder how often she had been in front of a camera, there she is on her wedding day, it seems like it would be all too much for such a young girl of her day.

She doesn’t look a day over 12.

That makes more sense. No matter who the groom is, though, that bride looks 12 years old.

There is possibly some sort of handicap there...
Are we even sure she is a bride here?! Because maybe it is a religious confirmation as in catholic religion.

Monacle

I thought the same as you

Jeff Hyde thank you

I would rather see that than some of the modern selfies with their pouting trout faces.

Homely and beautiful are subjective assessments, based on individual opinions and society's arbitrary standards. Your opinion that she is homely is no more true that anyone's opinion that she is pretty.

Self-righteous is defined as thinking oneself superior, which is what you seem to be doing in thinking your opinion of her looks is the only right judgment.

Thanks for the assessment, doctor, but I already understand what it is that I said. B**** is not attractive and people think their s*** don't stink because they're 'sticking up' for the less privileged.

Beauty is in the eye (you get he drift)

The first time I saw a picture of a child (who was dead) was in a picture with his living sister. He had his hand on her shoulder and the look on her face was she was terrified! I always look close at the face &eyes etc. It's creepy but you can find those pictures on Pinterest.

Lesa Duke it awful when you see children like this

Yes

Jeff Hyde interesting!