Pennsylvania bride-to-be Abby Kingston will be the 11th woman in her family to wear a wedding dress that has been passed down for generations.

Abby first laid eyes on the 120-year-old heirloom wedding dress when she was eight years old. Photos of past brides hung above a piano in her house.

One of the bridal portraits featured Leslie Kingston, Abby’s mother.

Leslie was the sixth bride to wear the dress. The Victorian gown was first worn by Leslie’s grandmother and Abby’s great grandmother, Mary Lowry Warren, in 1895.

Abby’s great aunt mailed the wedding dress to Leslie in “two boxes with archival tissue paper.”

When Abby opened the box she immediately thought there was “no way” she would be able to wear the dress at her wedding because of its condition.

“Not only was it a hideous color brown, but [it was] a crop top,” Abby said.

The length of the dress also posed an issue for the bride.

“I’m 5’10” and [my great grandmother] was short, as many of the other brides were,” said Abby. “When I put it on, I thought there was no way.”

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