Barbie & Ken Finally Get Married

August 12, 2011 in Wedding by Kat | 248 comments

When this photo shoot landed in my inbox this week with the description “Barbie & Ken’s wedding” I thought oh christ…what’s this?! However I’ve got to say that as soon as I saw the photographs my initial scepticism and preconceptions were totally eradicated. I laughed as I looked at each photo, set up to show Barbie & Ken getting married and photographed in the way an actual wedding might be. The quality of the photos is totally brilliant – and there lies the hilarity.

French photographer Béatrice de Guigné has set up each shot and photographed it like it would be with a real life couple. There are certain photo set-ups that you see all over wedding photography (the shoe shot, the dress shot, the bridal portraits just after she’s got ready, the groom getting ready with his boys etc…) and the whole set just made me laugh!

Maybe I’m going a bit mental from looking at so many wedding photographs every day!? This may well be funnier to wedding photographers and bloggers who do look at weddings all day long (the ‘portraits’ are particularly accurate!) but I hope you all get a little chuckle out of these!

“Barbie & Ken were married at Faraway Castle, in Plasticity,” photographer Béatrice told me. “The bride bought her dress from The Fairy Godmother shop and her shoes from the Cinderella Store. The groom wore a suit from The Prince Charming Emporium. The couple met more than 50 years ago (yes I know they look young). Barbie was tired of waiting so she asked Ken to get married.”

I did however want to ask Béatrice a semi-serious question to see where she got her idea for this ‘shoot’ from. “I don’t know why I wanted to do this but I did!” she told me. “Everything started last year when one day I wanted to make some boudoir shots I had in my mind, but nobody to pose for me except Barbie. So I photographed her and published the photos on my blog. Everybody laughed about it and found it was a nice idea. After that, everytime I wanted to test some ideas, I took Barbie as my model.”

“One day she said to me ‘Hey Béatrice, now that I have my boudoir, can you be my wedding photographer?’ LOL. So I started this crazy adventure! More seriously it was weeks and weeks of preparation, 3 days to shoot everything, a lot of sweat and finally a wedding day! I’m laughing alone looking these photos, so I hope it’s the same for people looking at them! Or I think I’m totally crazy!”

Well I’m laughing with you lady. I love them! Pretty genius I say.

What does everyone else think?

Thanks so much for sharing these Béatrice!

Photography Credit: BdG Photography

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  2. Whitney’s avatar

    Whitney on August 28, 2011 at 03:45

    The only shot missing is the bride and groom kissing under her veil :-)

  3. Mariah Nicole’s avatar

    Mariah Nicole on August 28, 2011 at 23:46

    I love this idea! I laughed and thought her stylist did a great job! In a few shots, I had to remind myself they were dolls, not real people!
    I’m glad they finally tied the knot!

  4. TheFavourShoppe’s avatar

    TheFavourShoppe on August 29, 2011 at 14:00

    I absolutely LOVE it!!! Such a brilliant idea!

  6. Constance’s avatar

    Constance on August 29, 2011 at 16:13

    Love this! Posted it to my Barbie facebook page! What fun!!

  8. Syl’s avatar

    Syl on August 30, 2011 at 19:13

    This is too funny and cute! Nice job! Anyone who has ever had, been in, or has gone to a wedding needs to see these.

  10. Angela’s avatar

    Angela on September 1, 2011 at 00:39

    This is so very cool!! Love it!!

  11. Claudia, A Day To Remember’s avatar

    Claudia, A Day To Remember on September 2, 2011 at 03:04

    This is pure genius! I LOVE LOVE LOVE this, or maybe, I to am going insane! I beg to ask the question, “Why didn’t someone think of this sooner?!” LOVE!

  15. Amanda Bates’s avatar

    Amanda Bates on September 3, 2011 at 23:28

    These are great!! I was definitely laughing myself. Very interesting and captive of what a real wedding would be. Great “out of the box” thinking.

  18. Katie @ NYCitified’s avatar

    Katie @ NYCitified on September 10, 2011 at 00:54

    I absolutely love the “getting ready” pictures, so hilarious. Only one problem….where are the shots of Ken hiking up his pants to show us his jazzy socks?!

  19. Andi Diamond’s avatar

    Andi Diamond on September 10, 2011 at 14:30

    HILARIOUS! And awesome-ly creative! LOVE it!

  20. melanie’s avatar

    melanie on September 10, 2011 at 20:09

    This is so close to the real thing, it scares me.

    Brilliant. Shots of the honeymoon next?

  21. Razan Hadid’s avatar

    Razan Hadid on September 11, 2011 at 00:08

    seriously guys!!!

  22. Veronica’s avatar

    Veronica on September 11, 2011 at 06:33

    Absolutely adorable, pretty impressive photography and a lot of attention to detail for this VIP Couple! Epic wedding, favorite is BK-301 and runner up is the bunny slippers!
    Thank you for sharing

  23. Sahra’s avatar

    Sahra on September 14, 2011 at 15:38

    this is so freaking adorable! perfectly posed; someone’s exceptionally talented!!! :D

    XO Sahra
    EffortlessCool

  24. ainsley’s avatar

    ainsley on September 20, 2011 at 17:57

    bahahahaha these are AWESOME

  25. Karen Thaemert’s avatar

    Karen Thaemert on October 2, 2011 at 01:50

    I absolutely LOVE it! LOL Great shoot.

  27. Sahra’s avatar

    Sahra on October 14, 2011 at 09:23

    Makes me ponder buying some Barbies just to practice shoots on them too! And for the utter hilarity of what my husband would think if he came home to me photographing Barbies in my studio! This is great, thanks for sharing!

  28. Maria’s avatar

    Maria on November 8, 2011 at 23:40

    Well it’s about time they made it official… And now they have the wedding photos to prove it!

  30. Maria’s avatar

    Maria on December 5, 2011 at 17:25

    This is so cool…Really amazing photos…

  31. Elly Mac Photos’s avatar

    Elly Mac Photos on December 28, 2011 at 10:44

    All the good men are taken………love this! Made me giggle

  32. Josephine’s avatar

    Josephine on December 28, 2011 at 11:04

    i had to drop my chopsticks while eating sushi when i saw this…phenomenal idea! and soooo cutyyyy & fab photos i dont like to think theyre jst dolls at all! *giggling endlessly*

  33. Jon Guest’s avatar

    Jon Guest on December 28, 2011 at 13:55

    After while you don’t see them as dolls. Excellent Idea and a great creative thought process

  34. Ines 'vidchick' Telling’s avatar

    Ines 'vidchick' Telling on December 28, 2011 at 14:07

    Haha…I’ve seen ‘real’ wedding pics that were a lot less inspiring. Brilliant. Hmmm…I wonder if they had a video…?! ;-)

  35. Sha’s avatar

    Sha on December 29, 2011 at 09:39

    Oh my, I died with cuteness when i saw this! Finally! It’s about time they got married! ♥♥♥
    Awesome, hilarious and brilliant! kudos to Beatrice!

  37. Suburban Sweetheart’s avatar

    Suburban Sweetheart on January 6, 2012 at 17:21

    These are great. What a brilliant idea!

  38. Brit Alexandria Sims’s avatar

    Brit Alexandria Sims on January 7, 2012 at 04:15

    Aww this is super cute but the bit about the typical wedding pictures is so true. I could totally see these pictures on any wedding photography blog only with real people.

  39. Pamela Morgan’s avatar

    Pamela Morgan on January 8, 2012 at 13:31

    This is absolutely adorable! I too had to remind myself that it wasn’t real people. They look really accurate! Anyways, it’s about time Barbie! Women young and old have waited patiently for this marriage ;)

  40. Kelly’s avatar

    Kelly on January 15, 2012 at 14:00

    I love your idea :) it’s very creative and the result looks amazing!

  46. Catherine Conlin’s avatar

    Catherine Conlin on March 25, 2012 at 03:59

    This is so creative and well done. Thanks for sharing this!
    You’re adorable.

  48. Holly’s avatar

    Holly on May 24, 2012 at 10:09

    Absolutely genius and hilarious

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