Bride ditches expensive wedding dress for grandma's 50-year-old gown
A 21-year-old bride from South Yorkshire decided to ditch her $1000 wedding dress when she fell in love with her grandmother's 50-year-old floral lace number.
Connie, who married electrician Sam Bell, was shown the gown by her grandmother Margaret as a means of cheering her up when her original wedding venue was cancelled.
Connie's mum Jo White, 47, said: 'We were all talking about Connie's wedding which was the hot topic of conversation and my mum Margaret said she had been sorting some old things out and came across her own dress.
Margaret White, 71, wore on her wedding day in 1966. The dress cost her $50 at the time, but it actually cost Connie $70 to get it dry cleaned.
Describing how her daughter looked in the lace number, mother-of-two Jo said “Connie looked beautiful, absolutely stunning. It was so special and it was grandma's dress.”
The original dress didn’t go to waste, though, Connie decided to change into it for the after party at about 9pm.
The couple ended up having their ceremony at The Crown Hotel in Harrogat in North Yorkshire, “After securing my grandma's dress - it then spurred me on to find a venue two weeks before the big day and we managed to find another hotel. It must have been fate.”
Speaking about her relationship with her grandmother, Connie added: “She’s my best friend. I also walked down the isle to a few Elvis Presley tracks because she goes mad for the King.”
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