Bride Is 11th Woman In Her Family To Wear 120-Year-Old Wedding Dress
An old English rhyme says that the bride must wear “something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue” to her wedding, and by the looks of it, Abigail Kingston got the “old” part down perfectly! At her wedding, this Pennsylvania native was the 11th bride ever to wear a 120-year-old wedding dress that had been passed down as a family heirloom from generation to generation.
The first bride to wear the beautiful dress was Mary Lowry Warren, who was married in it in 1895. The last bride to wear the heirloom dress was her mother, Leslie Kingston, who was married in 1991.
The vintage wedding dress was not without its troubles; when Abigail received it, the wedding gown had yellowed and was full of tears and holes due to its old age. After 200 hours of painstaking expert restoration, she was still only able to wear this vintage dress to the cocktail hour, as it was too fragile.
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These are the kind of things one wishes to pass down generation after generation, what a lucky bride!
Breathtaking.. To get married in a museum piece is brilliant and the craftsmanship is beyond words, beautiful!!!!!!
This is an awesome story. A modern day bride who is still interested in tradition, history, family and not needing the latest fashion
I still have my mother's wedding gown but I could not wear it when I got married either time. She was so skinny.
Beautiful bride, beautiful dress, beautiful story! Congratulations to the newest bride.
My niece just wore a 200 year old family veil at her wedding. But the family only invite the bride to wear it if they approve of her. Her poor mother in law was not invited to wear it. So mean!
Not only is it beautiful to reuse a dress, but the fact that it still looks just as stunning as it's first use.
I think it's wonderful that this bride honored the tradition and was lucky enough to be able to wear it to the cocktail hour. But it seems she got the best of both worlds - I'd be curious to see what she wore as her primary dress. I have the dress my mother and grandmother wore, but chose not to wear it as it looked terrible on me. I dislike it when a young woman decides to forego the heirloom dress and is derided for her choice to "be herself". This is an excellent solution to that dilemma.
This is amazing! It;s pretty cool that the dress is still in such good condition.
So lovely! Knowing I would only use the petticoat for my wedding dress once, I wrote our names and date inside and passed it along to a friend for her wedding. I wonder where it is now?
That's actually not bad at all.. That's also taking into consideration that maybe there weren't that many females born to that family, maybe only one woman per generation wore it, or that maybe a lot of women didn't *want* to wear it. Besides, there are a million reasons a woman may not have gotten married, even 120 years ago.
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This dress looks stunning. Unlike the majority of dresses from today's time(s)...
No it is ugly... But the story behind it makes it gorgeous
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Such a nasty comment Ana Lucia Rodriguez, you seem such a fun person to be around. Yes that was sarcasm... Beautiful dress and pictures, Lovely memory's for your family Xx
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These are the kind of things one wishes to pass down generation after generation, what a lucky bride!
Breathtaking.. To get married in a museum piece is brilliant and the craftsmanship is beyond words, beautiful!!!!!!
This is an awesome story. A modern day bride who is still interested in tradition, history, family and not needing the latest fashion
I still have my mother's wedding gown but I could not wear it when I got married either time. She was so skinny.
Beautiful bride, beautiful dress, beautiful story! Congratulations to the newest bride.
My niece just wore a 200 year old family veil at her wedding. But the family only invite the bride to wear it if they approve of her. Her poor mother in law was not invited to wear it. So mean!
Not only is it beautiful to reuse a dress, but the fact that it still looks just as stunning as it's first use.
I think it's wonderful that this bride honored the tradition and was lucky enough to be able to wear it to the cocktail hour. But it seems she got the best of both worlds - I'd be curious to see what she wore as her primary dress. I have the dress my mother and grandmother wore, but chose not to wear it as it looked terrible on me. I dislike it when a young woman decides to forego the heirloom dress and is derided for her choice to "be herself". This is an excellent solution to that dilemma.
This is amazing! It;s pretty cool that the dress is still in such good condition.
So lovely! Knowing I would only use the petticoat for my wedding dress once, I wrote our names and date inside and passed it along to a friend for her wedding. I wonder where it is now?
That's actually not bad at all.. That's also taking into consideration that maybe there weren't that many females born to that family, maybe only one woman per generation wore it, or that maybe a lot of women didn't *want* to wear it. Besides, there are a million reasons a woman may not have gotten married, even 120 years ago.
Load More Replies... This dress looks stunning. Unlike the majority of dresses from today's time(s)...
No it is ugly... But the story behind it makes it gorgeous
Load More Replies... Such a nasty comment Ana Lucia Rodriguez, you seem such a fun person to be around. Yes that was sarcasm... Beautiful dress and pictures, Lovely memory's for your family Xx
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