After Angela Abatemarco Becker got married in 1952, her mother asked a favor. Would she lend her gown to her cousin Marie? • The bride declined, fearing she’ wedding maternity dresses wedding maternity dressesd never see her wedding dress again. • Gradually, the request dwindled, but it didn’t go away. If not the gown, how about the headpiece? No? If not the “Juliette-cap” headpiece, how about just the veil? • Very well, Becker agreed. Cousin Marie could borrow the veil. • Did she ever get it back? Of course not.

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Wedding memorabilia is on display at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Dallas, the site of a wedding- gown fashion-show fund-raiser.

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Clockwise from left: Old wedding photographs, dating from the 1890s through the 1920s Find bridesmaid dress wedding the perfect bridesmaid dresses, junior gowns, and plus size bridesmaid dresses in the elegant collection of bridesmaid dresses by Davids Bridal., will be on display during the bridal fashion show.   Dottie Henry of Dallas, right, adjusts her 1955 wedding gown, which her granddaughter Olivia Marquart, 20, of Dallas, tried on during a fashion shoot at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Dallas. � Faythe Roberts of Dallas fixes her 1982 wedding gown, which her daughter, Amy, will model during the fashion show at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Dallas. � Carleigh Thomas, 5, of Dallas models a contemporary flower-girl dress dress that will be shown at the fashion show. Consider it practice for her Aunt Debbie’s wedding later this year.

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When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday

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“She’s 86, and she is still angry about it,” said her daughter, Laura Becker Stearns of Dallas. Stearns recently lent her mother’s gown to a group she’s confident will return it – the women of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Dallas, who are staging a fashion show of wedding gowns through the decades.

“Everyone’s been digging through their attics,” said Jean Grube, the pastor’s wife, who has arranged for about 20 models to wear some 30 gowns on Thursday evening at the church.

Admission is $10 cheap summer wedding dresses , and proceeds will benefit the Lutheran Synod’s youth service trips to Germany and to Argentina, where St. Paul’s has a sister church.

“ summer wedding accessories I didn’t think I was going to be as excited about this as I am,” plus size wedding dresses cheap plus size wedding dresses cheap; said Stearns, who is supplying jewelry jewelry to complement the dresses various models will wear.

“It’s a really cool idea and ties in to the whole royal-wedding thing,” she said, referring to the international interest in the recent “I do’s” of Prince William of England and his bride, Kate Middleton.

“They are such a nice couple, very down to earth. I loved how they rode off in a convertible,” said Dottie Henry of Dallas, whose granddaughter will model her tulle-skirted 1955 wedding gown in the fashion show.

Henry’s gown and veil were commercially sealed for preservation after her wedding, and, while the gown did survive the test of time, the veil did not fare as well. “It crumbled,” formal dress patterns ; she said.

Nevertheless, the memories the bridal finery brings back are still sparkling.

During a recent photo shoot, Henry reminisced about meeting her future husband, Frank, while both were vacationing on the Riviera.

Faythe Roberts of Dallas talked about finding an antebellum-style gown with a hoop skirt when she got married 28 years ago. “I was a Civil War re-enactor,” she said.

And, thanks to all the brides who decided to share vintage anecdotes as well as gowns, Grube will have lots to say when she emcees the fashion show.

One bride got married three months to the day her husband-to-be returned from World War II. Another designed her own dress and had it made by a dressmaker on Market Street in Wilkes-Barre. A third bought the first dress she tried on, then watched her father hyperventilate.

“My advice to every engaged ‘Daddy’s little girl:’ Warn your father before he sees you in your wedding gown,” Betty Ann Duffy wrote.

Various church members lent wedding photos that will be on display at the fashion show, including the church’s administrative assistant Carol Fett, who has bridal pictures of her children and her own wedding as well some ancestral wedding portraits dating to the 19th century.

Future weddings are on the minds of at least a few church members, such as 5-year-old Carleigh Thomas, who modeled a contemporary flower-girl dress during a recent photo shoot. She’ll be a flower girl in real life, for her Aunt Debbie later this year.

But even though Faythe Roberts’ 28-year-old gown seems a perfect fit for her daughter, 27-year-old fashion-show model Amy Roberts said she doesn’t expect to wear it as a bride anytime soon.

“She’d better not,” Faythe Roberts said.

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