This is a collection that I don't add to often (not much room left on that shelf). Lisa challenged me to show mine, and of course I had some...they live in my dining room built-in.
This happy couple was found at Goodwill a couple of years ago. They are only about three inches tall and I loved their small size.
If the price is right...I can't pass by a chalkware couple.
Estate sale found Tavern Candle couple. I love that the original box came with them (it says Bride and Groom set on the label).
This is a spun head couple I made a couple of years ago. I recently made a topper for a blogland friend and I think I may do another to show up on Etsy.
Cue in the Wedding March here...vintage couple after vintage couple.
Teeny tiny wedding couple
You know that I am always in love with vintage pipe cleaners and things made with them. I love how the dress was made for this bride.
This bride (or bridesmaid?) has no groom, but she does have an awesome skirt.
This couple has the whole enchanted world to live in...flowers, arch and sugary bells.
They are cute to boot
On my wedding shelf I also have tucked this old sugar wedding topper that was my mom and dads (50 years of marriage in December!). The grooms-cake favors that were handed out are wrapped in the netting near the topper.
Also on the shelf are these tiny floral headpieces...with original price tags. I like to think perhaps they were sold to tiny flower girls for the occasion.
And for all those single friends out there. An army of groomsmen...with not a bride in sight!
If you have an idea for a future collection challenge, leave me a comment and finish the sentence "Show me your collection of _____." I will see what I can dig up.
Well, that was fun. I can't believe you are still able to show us a new collection every Tuesday. It's been a whole year of collections -- we should have made a cake -- with a topper!
Thanks for a year of fun, Laurie.
Posted by: janet | May 17, 2011 at 07:51 AM
What a fun collection. You so often don't see wedding couples on cakes anymore. After my divorce I got rid of mine...wish I still had it now. oh well....I enjoyed seeing this collection!
Posted by: Linda @ A La Carte | May 17, 2011 at 08:20 AM
How about a collections of vintage doll babies.....unless you have done that before.
Posted by: Debby Messner | May 17, 2011 at 08:42 AM
I love all these cute images. The one you made is especially cute. I have one bride and groom myself and it's from my own cake. Bob and I have been married 50 years in Sept like your parents. Hard to believe really it's been this long.
Posted by: Nan | May 17, 2011 at 10:10 AM
I think this might be my 2nd favorite!! What fun!
Posted by: Lynn | May 17, 2011 at 11:03 AM
Hi. I collect those little one piece plastic dolls. Show me your collection of them. Thanks, Cyndi
Posted by: Cyndi Mauroni | May 17, 2011 at 11:12 AM
The topper in the first picture is very similar to what my parent's had on their wedding cake, except theirs was two separate pieces, a bride and a groom. They were married in 1943.
Posted by: Mary Ann | May 17, 2011 at 11:37 AM
And your wedding topper is where?
This blog post is perfect for the beginning of wedding season! Fun to look at all the old ones. Now I wonder what my parents had. You got me to thinking!
Happy Day!
Posted by: Lisa | May 17, 2011 at 12:05 PM
This is one of my favorite collections so far. It's great that you have collected so much variety of materials and styles, traditional to whimsical. Love it!
Posted by: Kathy | May 17, 2011 at 12:41 PM
That vintage pipecleaner couple is incredible -- her amazing dress and sweet little pipecleaner bouquet. I wish I had known you when I got married so I could have had an 'ethel' cake topper. Where is the world did you find all those groomsmen -- did you collect them a few at a time? Great post. :-)
Posted by: Into Vintage | May 17, 2011 at 08:22 PM
Laurie these are so sweet. That dusty ivory color is fantastic. I am loving the one with the circular pipe cleaner skirt. I do hope we never run out of collections. These are my favorites....well that and all the rest! Smiles...Renee
Posted by: Renee | May 18, 2011 at 06:11 AM
LOVE THESE!! You have the best stuff!!
see min here! we have so much in common! :-)
http://ilovecollecting10.blogspot.com/2010/02/something-old-something-new-vintage.html
Posted by: Emily Thompson | May 18, 2011 at 06:38 AM
Hey Magpie!
Do you think those pipecleaner couples were made during the Depression, when people had no money? I can't imagine using them for my cake topper, but at the same time, I love them!
I found a vintage cake topper last summer that I had to buy just because I felt sorry for it! What was once so important to a young couple, now just sitting in a heap of junk at a yard sale. Now it just its in MY basement, but ya never know what it might turn into. : )
Posted by: Jill | May 18, 2011 at 08:14 AM
Hi Laurie,
Wonderful collection! Oh goodness,
soooooo many groomsmen and no
bride! :) How did you find so
many?? My wedding cake topper
was actually part of the cake.
It was a basket, (frosting basket
weaved around small cake base) and
in the center were pale pink and
white roses and baby's breath!
I just loved it!!
Hugs,
Janis
Posted by: Janis | May 19, 2011 at 07:34 PM
This is a darling post. We had 2doves on our wedding cake holding a ring in their beaks. I still have it.
Posted by: Loretta Houben | May 20, 2011 at 08:51 AM