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Trend & Tradition

Title A Wedding Season
Issue Volume 05, Number 01 (T&T, Winter 2020)
Description Perhaps no season offered a better occasion for a wedding in colonial Virginia than winter. With feasts and festivities planned from Advent to Epiphany, it was a perfect opportunity for another celebration. Discussions on the ceremony, the feast, the dress, and the feastivities. Famous couplings were George Washington and Martha Custis in 1759 and Thomas Jefferson and Martha Skelton in 1772.
Author Trifone, Nichole
Pages 78-81
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