Many of tomorrow’s sweet weddings share a wink with yesterday.

By Amelia Stern

“When I was a college student in the late ’50s, I remember my friends and I laughing hysterically at many wedding traditions that were changing and going away,” says Jane Nylander, president emerita of Historic New England. “But now as a cultural historian, I cherish the traditions passed on through time. It’s a unifying thread between generations and it would be a shame to forget them.”

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