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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  1. Jennifer Wilcox’s avatar

    Jennifer Wilcox on August 13, 2011 at 17:57

    Hilarious and major creativity. Loved it!

  2. Erika {Borrowed&Bleu}’s avatar

    Erika {Borrowed&Bleu} on August 13, 2011 at 20:33

    This is too funny! So creative – and absolutely dead on! All the poses look VERY familiar!

  3. Gisel Kingston’s avatar

    Gisel Kingston on August 13, 2011 at 21:17

    Can someone say “Dinner for Schmucks” lol. No this is really cool. I love it!

  4. Krissy - Make Believe'N’s avatar

    Krissy - Make Believe'N on August 13, 2011 at 21:26

    I am particularly fond of Barbie’s champagne bucket :)

  5. Anna Lyndon’s avatar

    Anna Lyndon on August 13, 2011 at 21:48

    HAHAHAHA! Laughing out loud – this is so great! Now I’m wishing I’d thought of it. Perfectly appeals to my quirky sense of humor, and I’m guessing that of all the Rock n’ Roll brides out there too. :)

  6. Ami’s avatar

    Ami on August 13, 2011 at 23:29

    funniest thing i have seen in a long long time!

  7. crystal’s avatar

    crystal on August 13, 2011 at 23:43

    This is brilliant! I love it!!!!

  8. Shannon’s avatar

    Shannon on August 14, 2011 at 01:30

    Oh this makes me so happy. Hilarious!

  9. PM Custom Weddings’s avatar

    PM Custom Weddings on August 14, 2011 at 05:58

    This are the funniest wedding photos I’ve ever seen! This is a very creative wedding photographer, and I’m so happy to see the Barbie and Ken finally tied the knot :)

  11. Naomi Kenton Photography’s avatar

    Naomi Kenton Photography on August 14, 2011 at 15:47

    OMG I love this so much! Wish I’d thought of it, so funny and I know all these poses too well!

  12. Sarah’s avatar

    Sarah on August 14, 2011 at 18:55

    Is it normal that I’m jealous of Barbie’s wedding? It just looks so classy!

  13. Lorna’s avatar

    Lorna on August 14, 2011 at 20:13

    This is fantastic, I hope they are very happy together!

  14. Jennifer’s avatar

    Jennifer on August 14, 2011 at 20:28

    Congrats to the Bride and Groom! That was amazing. What creativity!!!!! Thank you for sharing. Made my day.

  15. Christie O. {Hindsight Bride}’s avatar

    Christie O. {Hindsight Bride} on August 14, 2011 at 22:13

    Definitely the funniest style-shoot I’ve seen.

  16. Shiang-ling Bissonnette’s avatar

    Shiang-ling Bissonnette on August 14, 2011 at 22:21

    OK I seriously have this idea written in my idea book for a few years now just for practicing and playing around, just never put time away to do it. This is WAY better that what I had envisioned!

  17. Green Parlour’s avatar

    Green Parlour on August 14, 2011 at 22:55

    Who forgot the bridal bouquet?

  18. Lesley Meredith’s avatar

    Lesley Meredith on August 14, 2011 at 23:40

    Ingenious! Loving the shallow depth of field lol just like a real wedding shoot! Bril brill brill <3 lots of thought and hard work gone into it and it shows :-) some real life breathing couples don't get images this good!

  19. Robin’s avatar

    Robin on August 15, 2011 at 04:12

    Genius Genius Genius. Love it! Hilarious and actually really beautiful. Great work Beatrice!

  20. Ebony’s avatar

    Ebony on August 15, 2011 at 04:41

    Well its about DAMN time made Barbie an honest women. He been up in the house for a long time! this is too cute. LOVE IT

  21. Beatrice - Bdg Photography’s avatar

    Beatrice - Bdg Photography on August 15, 2011 at 10:08

    Thank you everybody!
    To answear some questions: there is no ring because Barbie and Ken have webbed fingers! No bouquet for the same reason. Impossible to put something in their hands!

  22. Julia @ Brides Up North’s avatar

    Julia @ Brides Up North on August 15, 2011 at 11:05

    Absolutely inspired! Loving the “detail” shots, like you say. I also think that she has pulled off the dancefloor shots brilliantly. Very, very clever.

    Hope all is well with you Kat!

    Julia xx

  23. Corinne’s avatar

    Corinne on August 15, 2011 at 11:20

    These are awesome, love it.

  24. Jasika’s avatar

    Jasika on August 15, 2011 at 15:12

    Best thing I have ever seen in my entire life.

  25. aphasialady’s avatar

    aphasialady on August 15, 2011 at 22:25

    Where is Barbie’s right hand in the 4th picture with them kissing?

  27. Melody Gillikin’s avatar

    Melody Gillikin on August 15, 2011 at 23:26

    LOL! I had to chuckle out loud over this…one of my very first photo shoots was when MY Malibu Barbie and Ken got married!! Not quite as good as this but at 10 years old it was ground breaking! :) Thank you for taking me down memory lane!! This is funny stuff!

  28. Annabel - Love My Dress’s avatar

    Annabel - Love My Dress on August 16, 2011 at 00:27

    Jeez Louise how did I miss this? hahaha! Absolutely hilarious! I love all the attention to detail!!!

  29. Kismet’s avatar

    Kismet on August 16, 2011 at 05:59

    When I saw this on twitter, I was like ah! it’s going to be some barbie and ken theme wedding and almost ignored it. I love Beatrice’s creativity-alot of hard work must’ve gone into this.I have used Barbie a couple of times as a model-she is quite patient!
    This was brilliantly done! I laughed and loved it thoroughly!

  30. Cristina Rose’s avatar

    Cristina Rose on August 16, 2011 at 11:28

    Thankyou so much for sharing this with us all, goodness know we all need a good laugh these days and you gave it to us in pink champagne bucketfuls. ☺

  31. Ivan Packer’s avatar

    Ivan Packer on August 16, 2011 at 12:00

    At last, after all these years, he’s made an honest woman of her!

  32. maya’s avatar

    maya on August 16, 2011 at 14:34

    These are genius! We could not stop laughing about them in the office! I love that she’s hit every required wedding shot- from the shoe shot to the table detail!

  34. Susanna @ K.i.s.s. Wedding Ideas’s avatar

    Susanna @ K.i.s.s. Wedding Ideas on August 16, 2011 at 18:27

    omg…pee’d myself laughing!!!

  35. angie on maui’s avatar

    angie on maui on August 16, 2011 at 20:07

    these are awesome! Thanks for the giggle! :)

  36. Cathy Statti’s avatar

    Cathy Statti on August 17, 2011 at 05:28

    I think that is awesome…great idea!
    Enjoyed looking at all the pictures!
    Cat :-)

  37. Sue’s avatar

    Sue on August 17, 2011 at 06:08

    These are so fun! Makes me wish I had pix of my many, many Barbies!

  38. Rik Pennington’s avatar

    Rik Pennington on August 17, 2011 at 09:11

    Fantastic! Why didn’t I think of it?! So good.

  40. natasha’s avatar

    natasha on August 18, 2011 at 09:39

    WOW….weird…but AWESOME photo’s man!!

  41. Brittney Brooks’s avatar

    Brittney Brooks on August 18, 2011 at 20:16

    Love this! Thanks for sharing, I, as did you, found this quit hilarious! Love how they are images and photographs and “real” bride and groom would be happy to call their own! lol

  42. Vanessa’s avatar

    Vanessa on August 19, 2011 at 06:29

    this is BRILLIANT!!! I smiled so big and laughed out loud! Loved it!!

  43. Nicolette’s avatar

    Nicolette on August 19, 2011 at 13:29

    absolutely fantastic!

  44. Cindy DeVaux’s avatar

    Cindy DeVaux on August 19, 2011 at 18:18

    I love it. About time someone got these two married.
    Great shots. Took a lot of time. and just great lol

  45. Ariana’s avatar

    Ariana on August 20, 2011 at 01:02

    This photo shoot is effing amazing. Seriously. I could not stop laughing. I should stop looking at your site at work… ;)

  47. Hannah’s avatar

    Hannah on August 26, 2011 at 14:21

    You are so ‘the best’ Béatrice de Guigné! Thank you for making their wedding memorable! Absolutely beautiful! <3 <3 <3

  49. Eliza Savage’s avatar

    Eliza Savage on August 26, 2011 at 18:26

    This is the best idea I have seen in a long time and so well done. I can not get over the sequence of shots of Ken and his groomsmen getting ready.
    Genius!

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