The thick catalog that accompanies the exhibit Wedded Perfection is an amazing review of the gowns featured in the show. But it also includes extensive essays on the history of the American wedding.

These nasty little pests can be a big problem! Read on for more information about the dreaded carpet beetle.

Learn more about early American brides, from Native Americans to the Colonial Era. This is the second in a series of articles about the evolution of bridal fashion, featuring museums with wedding gowns currently on display.

The hoop skirt was all the rage in the Civil War era. Learn more about bridal fashion in the 1860s! This is the fourth in a series of articles about the evolution of bridal fashion, featuring museums with wedding gowns currently on display.

Fashion changed a lot after the stock market crash through World War II. But in the Postwar Ear, luxury in bridal fashion returned! This is the seventh in a series of articles about the evolution of bridal fashion, featuring museums with wedding gowns currently on display.

Wedding season is here! Are you a bride-to-be or newlywed? Here’s everything you need to know to preserve your own wedding gown! Believe it or not, you can do a better job yourself than a bridal shop or dry cleaner. Store your priceless gown the way museums store their textile treasures.

Written by prominent historians, this hard-to-find book about cemeteries is definitely worth reading!

This book is full of vintage illustrations of that garment we love to hate – the corset!

If you’ve ever wondered what it was like to live as a member of the upper crust in the Gilded Age, this book is for you!

This highly-recommended book is a standard museum studies text. If you are responsible for taking care of anything historic, you definitely need this book in your library.