After a whole lot of work, a woman will become the eleventh bride in her family to wear the same 120-year-old wedding dress. Eat your heart out, Etsy-cruising “vintage-inspired” party planners.
Lehigh Valley Live tells the story of Pennsylvania-born Abigail Kingston, who wanted to wear the same dress as her mother and numerous other female relatives. Originally, it had been worn by her great-great grandmother at her 1895 wedding in Buffalo, New York. But it took some pretty painstaking restoration efforts, because the century-old gown was showing its age—satin discolored, holes all over, and clearly cut for a time when Americans were shorter. Plus, it had been altered by successive brides over the years.