The Emanuel gown was one of three vintage dresses fashion historian and obsessive collector Laura McLaws Helms wore across two ceremonies
. “The second I heard that Laura was engaged I reached out and told her I had something she had to see. I knew in my heart that it was her dress.”
Alas, not everything would come together quite so smoothly. Laura and Bryan were originally due to exchange vows in April 2020. “A lot of my family is in Europe, so we had been closely watching everything that was going on with– particularly in Italy – and getting more and more nervous,” says McLaws Helms. Around five weeks before what would have been their big day, the couple hit send on an email to their guests explaining that they’d been forced to postpone.
Three months later, a celebration for 160 looking no more realistic than it had in April, the father of the bride came up with a suggestion: an elopement. “I had always wanted to go to this old resort in West Virginia, the,” explains Laura. “Dorothy Draper redesigned it in the ’40s and it’s just amazing. My dad looked it up and it had started reopening. He said, ‘How about two Saturdays from now?’ We were like, sure! We have nothing else planned.
“I’ve always felt that the Emanuels deserved to be discussed and appreciated for more than Princess Diana’s wedding,” says Laura McLaws Helms.The other bonus, she says, was that she and her groom were “super relaxed” when their postponed ceremony finally went ahead in the grounds of Bethesda Academy in Savannah, Georgia, in October 2020.
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