My Unexpected Wedding Dress Obsession

My maternal great-grandmother’s wedding dress before alterations.

My maternal great-grandmother’s wedding dress before alterations.

 

This essay took a while to find a home. I got a lot of “very well written, but not for us.” I also got a fair amount of crickets (aka no response). And while I love crickets in nature, when it comes to pitching, I prefer a little more noise, even if that noise is “thanks but not thanks.”