This Bride Wore The Same Dress As Her Mom And Grandma On Her Wedding Day
Everything old is new again.
Newlywed Julia Cain glowed on her wedding day — partially thanks to her dress, which both her mother and grandmother wore when they got married.
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Cain's grandmother Phyllis Traver wore the dress for her wedding in 1953. Thirty years later, Cain's mother Susan chose the same gown for her own wedding to Cain's father.
Julia Cain
Cain decided to wear the heirloom dress years before she got engaged to her now-husband Lance. After Lance proposed in Jan. 2015, Cain had eight months of alterations ahead of her.
"I first tried on the dress as a teenager, but we never thought I would wear it for my wedding. We found it in my grandmother’s attic and I tried it on as a joke," Cain told BuzzFeed. "My mother and I used to talk about my future wedding, and sometime a few years ago she mentioned the idea of repurposing her dress. She never pressured me into wearing it, but I instantly loved the idea."
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Cain had a satin waistband and crinoline underskirt added to the tulle and lace gown, but the changes, which cost $800, didn't stop there.
"My mother didn’t alter the dress much when she wore it," Cain, who chronicled her entire alteration journey on her blog, explained. "She had a lace panel added to the back of the jacket to make room for her shoulders, and she didn’t wear the hoop skirt my grandmother used. I turned the jacket into the straps and added a crinoline for extra volume. Was it cheap? No. Was it worth it for me? Every penny!"
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