Join Etiquetteer Robert B. Dimmick for an exploration of wedding customs in the United States from the Civil War to Prohibition. Aside from familiar customs like the white wedding dress and tossing the bouquet, Etiquetteer will look at fads like the floral bell, wedding breakfast, and home wedding. Two of the most celebrated weddings of this period include President Cleveland’s White House wedding to Frances Folsom and that of Consuelo Vanderbilt to the Duke of Marlborough in New York. Stories of Gibson family weddings will also be shared, especially those of sisters Mary Ethel, in Nahant, and Rosamond, held in the Gibson House Music Room six months after her father’s death. This program will be presented live from the Music Room of the Gibson House.
Light refreshments will be served. The program takes place February 27 at 6 pm at The Gibson House, 137 Beacon Street in Boston. $15 Gibson House members, $20 nonmembers. Register HERE
