8 Women From 1 Family Wear The Same Wedding Dress - Inspirational Videos

The women in this family all had something borrowed and something blue, with the exception of the first bride. The names and dates of each bride wearing this family heirloom are stitched in blue inside this wedding. 

In fact, eight women from one family wore the same wedding dress, stretching a span of 72 years from the first wedding to the most recent. 

How did this get started? It started with the oldest sister Adele back in 1950 when this bride purchased her wedding dress for the steep cost of $100! Most wedding dresses nowadays cost upwards of $1,000 or more. 

She then passed it on to her sister Elly in 1953. Sixteen years later, the dress was handed down to their younger sister Sharon in 1969. 

Then it became a tradition passed down to the second generation when Adele’s daughter wore the dress in 1982. Elly’s daughters did the same too; Carole wore it in 1990, and Jean wore it in 1991 when she became the next bride in the family. 

Twenty-two years later, the dress came out of the box once again for Sharon’s daughter Julie when she wore it on her big day in 2013. 

Julie said, “It was a given that that was the dress I wanted to wear,” she said. Seventy-two years after the tradition started, Serena, Sharon’s daughter, became the eighth bride to wear the dress in 2022! 

For Serena, she had nearly everything a bride needed. The dress became “something old, something borrowed, and something blue.” 

They are all happy to report the dress has led to long and happy marriages for each bride. It is something they hope will continue in the future. 

Who will be next? They aren’t sure either, but they look forward to when the dress gets passed on to the next bride in the family. What a beautiful way to commemorate generations before and bless generations after. 

Revelations 19:8 “It was given to her to clothe herself in fine linen, bright and clean; for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.”