Adele Larson Stoneberg chose a satin wedding dress at the Marshall Field store in downtown Chicago, and decided to wear it on her wedding day.
The dress cost $100, as the dress was perfect for a 1950's bride.But not just the 1950s, it turns out it's become relevant for decades to come, according to newsbeezer.
Since then, 7 brides have worn the same wedding dress, one in each decade for the 72 years now.
Stoneberg gave it to her sister for her wedding, and then, as the years went on, her daughter and 3 nieces asked if they could wear the same dress
"When you touch high-quality satin, you realize it's above average," said Eleanor Larson Melton, Adele's 90-year-old sister who was a bridesmaid at the 1950s wedding.
to their wedding.
In August 2022, 72 years after Stoneberg tied the knot at the Ebenezer Lutheran Church, her granddaughter Serena Stoneberg Lipari wore the same dress at the same Chicago church for her wedding this month.
"There was no doubt that I would be the eighth bride to wear a wedding dress," 27-year-old Serena Stoneberg Lipari says of her grandmother's satin wedding dress. In connection with my wedding day.
"It's a very classic and gorgeous wedding dress, with a beautiful bodice, a Mao collar and lots of buttons," she said.