The dress didn't appear again for 27 years, this time around on Maggie's younger daughter, Beth, in Erie, PA, in which the family then lived. She and her future husband, Harry Drucker, got engaged with an Oregon-to-Virginia bicycle tour and were married 3 ½ months later, in October 1980.Click

The original plan was for any modest, informal wedding, with Harry and also the groomsmen in sports coats and slacks. "I told Harry what's promising that I will not have to buy an outfit," Beth says, "because I could wear Mom's." But Beth had forgotten the photographs of her mother's wedding. Once she used it on, she realized "this gorgeous dress would set a dark tone for the wedding–casual and straightforward it was not," and asked Harry and also the men to upgrade to tuxedos.

"I felt just like a princess within the velvet bridesmaid dresses," Beth remembers today. "I had nothing you've seen prior, and also have never since, worn anything as beautiful." Because her cross-country cycling companions had never witnessed her in not sweaty bike clothes, at the wedding they were astonished.

Both Beth and Harry, genuine estate investors, are active environmentalists. They have three grown children and reside in Wilmette, IL.