Victorian Cupid in Chains Valentine's Day Greeting Card

The small girl in her white wedding dress and flowing veil seems resigned to her fate, while the chubby winged cupid opposite her appears equally committed to this arrangement—the two of them holding a garland of roses that stretches between them like the world's most adorable restraining order. 'Cupid in Chains' blazoned across the giant red heart centerpiece makes their mutual imprisonment explicit, because apparently the best way to express romance is by immediately framing love as captivity. The flower garland connecting child-bride to half-naked cherub reads less 'sweet Victorian sentiment' and more 'evidence submitted in a philosophical trial about whether marriage was ever a good idea.' Whoever greenlit this card clearly had thoughts about matrimony that they were absolutely not keeping to themselves.