"Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue." This Old English rhyme has always been taken to heart by brides for their wedding day and it would seem Abigail Kingston has the "old" down pat by wearing a 120-year-old wedding dress.

An heirloom, the wedding dress was first worn by Mary Lowry Warren, Kingston's great-great-grandmother, in 1895. When Abigail was engaged, she quickly tracked down the dress with the help of her mother Leslie, who herself had worn the wedding dress in 1977. Leslie explained that it was usually tradition for the mother of the last bride to keep the dress so she had an idea where to start looking. They found the dress with Sara Seiler Ogden, Bride No. 4 who wore it in 1960.

Ogden was more than happy to send the dress to the Kingstons but Abigail was dismayed when she saw the state it was in. Wear and tear had gotten the best of the dress (being 120 years old can do that to you) because it was not particularly preserved, only dry-cleaned once after being worn by 10 women before, leaving parts of the dress disintegrated, if not with holes, and heavily discolored.

"I thought it's just not possible. I'm just not going to be able to wear it," said Abigail.

Thankfully, the Kingstons found Deborah LoPresti, whose team logged 200 hours to restore the heirloom wedding dress for Abigail's big day. LoPresti worked with Gary Harper to turn the dress from an unattractive brown to a more wedding-appropriate blush shade and scoured New York's garment district to find the exact charmeuse silk satin that would match the dress' original color.

Though the dress has been restored, it is still so fragile so Abigail will be wearing a different wedding gown, a new one, for their outdoor ceremony. She will be donning the 120-year-old dress for cocktail hour, alongside a locket from her grandmother, which was given by her grandfather on their 50th wedding anniversary and a ring from her great-grandmother.

Leslie is trying to convince Ogden to come to Abigail's wedding, bringing things full circle. Ogden is Leslie's aunt. However, should Ogden not be able to make the trip, she will still be a part of the wedding, as well as the nine other women who have worn the dress, as their bridal portraits will be on display on the special day.

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