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This Dress Is 120 Years Old And Worn By 11 Brides

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A young bride from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania is bringing a whole new meaning to the term ‘something borrowed’. Abigail Kingston, 30, is set to get married in a wedding dress that is 120 years old and it has been previously worn by 10 other brides on her mother’s side of the family.

Mary Lowry Warren, Kingston’s great-great-grandmother, first donned the Victorian-era satin gown in 1895 and was last worn in 1991.

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History in the making: 30-year-old Abigail Kingston, of Pennsylvania, is set to get married in a family wedding dress that is 120 years old.                                                                                                                                    
Bride one: Mary Lowry Warren, Kingston’s great-great-grandmother, first donned the Victorian-era satin gown in 1895                                                                                                                                                                
Lowry’s granddaughter Jane Woodruff who was delighted to wear the dress for her February 20, 1946, wedding to John Kearns and is the one who started the dress tradition after her mother didn’t want to wear it                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
Bride No. 3: Another granddaughter Virginia Woodruff married Douglas MacConnell Oct. 13, 1948, and was the third bride to wear the dress        
Bride No. 4 Sara Seiler married Duncan Ogden on June 15, 1960. The dress was still long and in its original style back then before her relatives made it shorter in the 1980s

Keeping with the tradition: Laird MacConnell became the fifth bride to wear the dress when she married Timothy Hensler on Oct. 16, 1976
Mother-of-the-bride Leslie Woodruff Kingston is shown on her Aug. 6, 1977, wedding day. She was the sixth bride to walk down the aisle in the gown                                                                                                                                                                                                          
A vision in white: Abby will be the eleventh bride to wear the dress, which has been passed down over the years on her mother’s side of the family

 

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