The hanging wedding dress

Alabama · United States · Execution site

The family tradition was to hang the wedding dress in the window the night before, so the town would know. The house burned that night.

The account from Glencoe, Alabama concerns a couple due to be married.

The night before the wedding the man was out at a bar with his friends. In the woman's family the tradition was to hang the wedding dress in a window the night before, so that everyone passing would know a wedding was coming.

The house burned.

What people report at the site is the dress, still hanging where the window was.

The image is the whole of it, and it is a good one: a burnt house, and the one thing in it that would have gone first, still visible.

Alabama has several stories of this shape and they cluster in the years when houses were lit by oil lamps and open hearths and a domestic fire could take a wooden building down in minutes.

No record has been found for this fire or this wedding. It is local legend and is worth reading as one.

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The hanging wedding dress is in Alabama, United States.