Curious to know what your grandmother or great-grandmother may have worn on her wedding day — or would have wanted to wear if her family could have afforded it? McCord Museum may be able to help.
Today, McCord Museum in Montreal opens a new exhibit, Love in Fine Fashion, where 30 elegant wedding dresses and accessories from the 19th and 20th centuries will be featured.
Among the gowns on display will be one worn by Emily Jane Bonar Redpath, for whom a mansion was built in the Golden Square Mile, and the wedding dress made by Russian immigrant Nina Larionoff.
The dresses, from the spectacular to the simple, date from 1816 to 2008 and are part of the 150 wedding gowns in the museum’s collection of 18,000 garments and accessories.
The exhibit runs until April 12, 2015.
More about the exhibit and photos can be seen in the Montreal Gazette article, Every dress tells a love story: McCord Museum opens show of bridal gowns.
Visit McCord Museum’s website here.
