Abigail Kingston, 30, is set to get married in a wedding dress that is 120 years old and it has been previously worn by 10 other brides on her mother's side of the family. Mary Lowry Warren, Kingston's great-great-grandmother, first donned the Victorian-era satin gown in 1895, and was last worn in 1991.
Bride one:Mary Lowry Warren, Kingston's great-great-grandmother, first donned the Victorian-era satin gown in 1895.. More when you continue...
Lowry's granddaughter Jane Woodruff who was delighted to wear the dress for her February 20, 1946, wedding to John Kearns and is the one who started the dress tradition after her mother didn't want to wear it
Bride No. 3: Another granddaughter Virginia Woodruff married Douglas MacConnell Oct. 13, 1948 and was the third bride to wear the dress 
Bride No. 4 Sara Seiler married Duncan Ogden on June 15, 1960. The dress was still long an in its original style back then before her relatives made it shorter in the 1980s
Keeping with the tradition: Laird MacConnell became the fifth bride to wear the dress when she married Timothy Hensler on Oct. 16, 1976
Mother-of-the-bride Leslie Woodruff Kingston is shown on her Aug. 6, 1977 wedding day. She was the sixth bride to walk down the aisle in the gown.Abby, who is set to wed her fiancé, Jason Curtis, in Pennsylvania on October 17, said she always knew she wanted to get married in the dress
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