Happy Thursday (the best day of the week)!
BRIDES Magazine turns 75 this year! Here are some little fun facts that were shared with me and I thought it would be fabulous to pass them along!
BRIDES was the world’s first wedding magazine, launched during the Great Depression by a Condé Nast executive who saw weddings as recession-proof.
The magazine was first titled So You’re Going to Be Married. By 1936 it was renamed The Bride’s Magazine. In the ‘70s it became simply BRIDE’S and in 2005 the apostrophe was history.
Vera Wang, Oscar de la Renta, Badgley Mischka and Carolina Herrera all debuted their wedding gowns in the pages of BRIDES.
BRIDES was the very first wedding magazine to cover pregnant brides, intercultural couples, and same-sex marriages .
After 75 years BRIDES remains the #1 wedding magazine, with over 6.4 million readers .
In the ‘40s, BRIDES created a Gift Preference Card that could be filled out and left with the ‘Bridal Bureaus’ of fine stores. This was the precursor to the registry list.
Heidi Klum can thank BRIDES for her very first magazine cover.
There have been only four editors of BRIDES over 75 years. Current Editor in Chief Millie Martini Bratten is celebrating 15 years at the helm.
Famed photographer Richard Avedon shot an entire issue of BRIDES in 1950.
You’ll find BRIDES in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest magazine ever produced, at 1,271 pages.
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