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Gallery: Lansdale Historical Society Event Married Tradition With Tea

The second annual Spring Tea fundraiser at Elm Terrace featured a look back on eight decades of wedding traditions

Here came the brides, all dressed in white (and black too).

The ladies of the Lansdale Historical Society board and its membership pool held the second annual Spring Tea at on Saturday with the theme "An Affiar to Remember."

Female family members of the ladies of the society sashayed in through the Dorothy Stiteler Dining Room in wedding gowns from the 1920s through the 2000s.

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Colleen Peterson, of Harleysville Bridal, emceed the fashion show.

The event also featured photos of notable Lansdale residents present and past on their wedding days. There were also wedding tradition artifacts donated by various members. The Mennonite Heritage Center in Franconia provided a dress from the 1880s that was for display only.

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