# 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


## 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

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Opening | Dearly Beloved: 100 Years of the Wedding Dress being held?
  - **A:** Opening | Dearly Beloved: 100 Years of the Wedding Dress takes place on Sat, 13 Dec, 2025 at 08:00 am to Sat, 13 Dec, 2025 at 08:00 am at 329 West Street (SH1), Ashburton, New Zealand 7700, New Zealand.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Opening | Dearly Beloved: 100 Years of the Wedding Dress?
  - **A:** Opening | Dearly Beloved: 100 Years of the Wedding Dress is organized by Ashburton Museum.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Opening | Dearly Beloved: 100 Years of the Wedding Dress is ideal for art lovers, trade professionals, collectors, and exhibition enthusiasts exploring the latest in their field. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Ashburton, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Opening | Dearly Beloved: 100 Years of the Wedding Dress sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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