After the nuptials in a Lutheran church in Brooklyn, for a Swedish bride and Norwegian groom, everyone drives across a bridge to Staten Island to eat, drink, and dance at the Nansen Lodge Social Club, a fraternal organization affiliated with the Sons of Norway.
Katrina Thomas's notes: Most Swedish-Americans are Lutherans or Methodists, emigrating between 1840 and 1910, passing through New York City, to settle the upper Midwest. However, I photograph two Swedish weddings in NYC, one, being a Swedish bride who marries a Norwegian. She wears a white wedding dress. The other couple chooses to wear traditional dress of a particular region. Both brides wear the crown of the Vasa Order, originally a fraternal society for Swedes but now open to all of Scandinavian descent.
