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Finish with terra-cotta blush and a glossy caramel lip for earthy warmth

Get ready to feel like a queen in this exquisite, custom-made gown

Cropped toppers are the most universal toppers to go over a dress (long or short) as they hit at the waist and maintain the silhouette

LIFE decided to pay tribute to this burgeoning romanticism by dispatching staff photographer NIna Leen to document a particularly lavish wedding, with a focus on all the preparations leading up to it, for a nine-page story headlined June Wedding: Kansas City Girl Marries With All the Fixings. The bride was Barbara Winn, the 23-year-old daughter of a well-to-do contractor, as LIFE put it

May 6, 2014