# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Opening | Dearly Beloved: 100 Years of the Wedding Dress
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 13 Dec, 2025 at 08:00 am
- **Event Description**: Join us for the opening of Dearly Beloved | 100 Years of the Wedding Dress!

This exhibition features a selection of bridal wear from our collection, representing wedding fashion from the late 1800s and through the twentieth century. Discover the beauty and craftswomanship of home- or dressmaker-made garments, embellished by hand. With a focus on the wearers of these dresses and Aotearoa wedding traditions, we see how the wedding dress reflects changes in fashion – both in aesthetic style and our social customs.

Displayed across two exhibition spaces, Dearly Beloved also presents the Ashburton Bride of the Year 1970 winner’s gown – an unusual, though at the time, very contemporary wedding dress – alongside related objects and photographs from the Gordon Binsted negatives collection.

All are welcome at the opening event on Saturday 13 December at 6pm. This event will coincide with the opening of exhibitions by artists Kathy Reilly, Inge and Marc Doesburg, and the Print Council of Aotearoa.

Image: Photograph, wedding of Elisabeth and Antony Quaid on 14 November 1992. AM&HS Collection; 05.2013.1033
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/ashburton/opening-|-dearly-beloved-100-years-of-the-wedding-dress/200029117922925
- **Event Categories**: exhibitions, art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 40

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029117922925?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=ashburton-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Ashburton
- **state**: CA
- **country**: New Zealand
- **location**: 329 West Street (SH1), Ashburton, New Zealand 7700
- **lat**: -43.90206
- **long**: 171.74958
- **full address**: 329 West Street (SH1), Ashburton, New Zealand 7700, New Zealand

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Ashburton Museum (https://allevents.in/org/ashburton-museum/26058795)

## Event gallery

- **Alt text**: banner
  - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/8c6a8dbff74ab93df5de1e26ef956035828ef6314b12b6c9f2d17e1ef9c2069c-rimg-w850-h642-dc1e2f1a-gmir?v=1765149523
- **Alt text**: thumbnail
  - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/dcc5e8e7786e769db3658b5cd72b5d44a6f4078234424c88e34ec8cf94055eb0-rimg-w300-h300-dc161b13-gmir?v=1765149524

## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 13 Dec, 2025 at 08:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 329 West Street (SH1), Ashburton, New Zealand 7700, New Zealand
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Ashburton Museum
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** exhibitions, art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Opening | Dearly Beloved: 100 Years of the Wedding Dress ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

## Structured Data (JSON-LD)

```json
[
    {
        "@context": "https://schema.org",
        "@type": "Event",
        "name": "Opening | Dearly Beloved: 100 Years of the Wedding Dress",
        "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/8c6a8dbff74ab93df5de1e26ef956035828ef6314b12b6c9f2d17e1ef9c2069c-rimg-w850-h642-dc1e2f1a-gmir?v=1765149523",
        "startDate": "2025-12-13",
        "url": "https://allevents.in/ashburton/opening-|-dearly-beloved-100-years-of-the-wedding-dress/200029117922925",
        "location": {
            "@type": "Place",
            "name": "329 West Street (SH1), Ashburton, New Zealand 7700",
            "address": {
                "@type": "PostalAddress",
                "streetAddress": "327 West St, Ashburton 7700, New Zealand",
                "addressLocality": "Ashburton",
                "addressRegion": "CA",
                "addressCountry": "NZ"
            },
            "geo": {
                "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
                "latitude": "-43.90206",
                "longitude": "171.74958"
            }
        },
        "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode",
        "description": "Join us for the opening of Dearly Beloved | 100 Years of the Wedding Dress!\n\nThis exhibition features a selection of bridal wear from our collection, representing wedding fashion from the late 1800s and through the twentieth century. Discover the beauty and craftswomanship of home- or dressmaker-mad",
        "organizer": [
            {
                "@type": "Organization",
                "name": "Ashburton Museum",
                "url": "https://allevents.in/org/ashburton-museum/26058795"
            }
        ]
    }
]
```