Barbie & Ken Finally Get Married

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When this photo shoot landed in my inbox with the description “Barbie and 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 and 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 and Ken were married at Faraway Castle, in Plasticity,” 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, three 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?

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291 comments

  2. ruth thorpe

    I thought it was fun to look at Barbie & Ken’s wedding photos. Since my daughter is an event/wedding planner I look at a lot of wedding photos too. You’re right about the common shots. How fun. Glad they finally tied the knot!

  4. Shelley Moore

    Are you going to do a courtroom for their divorce? All of the couples I know of who waited decades to get married usually divorced after 2 or 3 years. And since they took 50 years to get married you know someone was dragging their feet! LOL
    Very talented and imaginative individual. You’ve made many people smile.

    PS I had one of the ORIGINAL Barbie Dolls, the ones with the black and white suit and the hair that was similar to embroidery floss. Had it for years then realizing my 2 little boys wouldn’t want it gave it to a niece. About three weeks later I found out how much money they were worth! AGGGGG!

  6. Stefanie from Nj

    This is so awesome!!! The pics look so real, and totally on point!!! You did an awesome Job with this shoot!! It’s about time Barbie n Ken got hitched, it’s been a minute!

  12. Omg this is frigging amazing! Beatrice the photographer is a genius laffing my socks off because it actually could be real. Now I am going crazy

  14. Sharon Godare

    LOVE IT! Better than my daughter’s wedding pictures. I still think Ken is in denial. I think one day he will run off with G.I. Joe from the 60s. He had poseable arms and a six pack. You can photograph that wedding, too. 🙂

  15. This is AMAZING, i love it! So so funny and amazing photography. 10 out of 10 for detail and the time it must have taken x

  20. This. Is. Brilliant. My Barbie weddings always ended up with Sindy gatecrashing, getting off with Ken, causing a kerfuffle and ultimately, divorce. This is a much more classy wedding.

  30. Belinda

    I can’t believe they’re finally married!!! Those pictures were gorgeous! So much effort was put into them and you can tell. Wonderful job! Definitely would like to see honeymoon or baby pictures next!

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