Every Detail of Priscilla Presley's 1967 Wedding Ensemble Is Better Than the Last
In DepthToday is the 50th anniversary of 32-year-old Elvis Presley’s wedding to 21-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. For all that the groom would become synonymous with jaw-dropping fashion choices over the course of his career, this was Priscilla’s sartorial show—and what a show it was.
The Retro Set notes on Twitter that the pair—who met when Priscilla was 14, by the way, which is sketchy even by the standards of the young marriage mad midcentury—tied the knot on May 1, 1967. But you could probably ballpark the date based on Priscilla’s hair alone, which engineered with more power and precision than a high-end sports car. It’s nothing in comparison to her veil, though, which must be itself reinforced with Aqua Net. Do you think Lana Del Rey deliberately ripped her entire shit from this photograph, or is this simply the platonic ideal of a LOOK from the era with which Del Rey is obsessed?