Wedding Belles: 3 Generations, 15 Dresses, 8 Decades
An exhibit opening Saturday at the Hillwood Museum showcases exquisite wedding and bridesmaids' dresses worn by Marjorie Merriweather Post and her mother and daughters. Accessories include a jewel-encrusted Cartier purse.
Long before the U.K. had Princess Diana and Princess Kate and their wedding dresses, we had Marjorie Merriweather Post—business woman, society hostess and patron of the capital city's art scene—and her four wedding dresses—unique works of art in satin, velvet, fox fur trim, organza and yards and yards of lace. And starting June 18, Post's four wedding dresses will be on display at the Hillwood Museum, along with those of her mother, Ella Merriweather Post (who wore a dove gray, bustled Victorian gown for her November 4, 1874 wedding), and of her three daughters: Adelaide Close Durant (who, in 1927, wore a flapper-inspired, possibly Bergdorf Goodman-designed, tea-length dress with a four-foot train of antique lace veil worn by a Hapsburg …
