Bridport Museum wants YOUR local love stories
Get married or engaged somewhere in Bridport? They want to know.
Bridport Museum wants YOUR love stories as part of it’s Valentines Day campaign this year.
Each day in the run-up to 14 February the museum will share some of the stories and photographs behind dresses from their collection, as well as inviting people to share their own photographs and memories.
Museum Director Emily Hicks says the plan is to cheer people up:
“We are sharing some of the lovely wedding dresses from our collection online, and we are asking people to share their own stories.
“So if they were proposed to somewhere in Bridport, or got married in Bridport, to share nice photographs or memories and then we’ll pull those together into a nice online exhibition and hopefully cheer everybody up.”
Not much is known about the wedding dresses in the museum's possession, and Emily is asking anyone with information about them to come forward.
“We’ve got one mid-victorian dress. It’s blue because it wasn’t always common to wear white. The others are all white and cream. There’s a late Victorian one, it’s very lacey and a couple 20th-century ones.
“But we don’t know a huge amount about them, so that was the other thing so if anyone can come forward with other information about the owners of them.”
The campaign will also include a hunt for the most romantic spot in the town.
Favourites will be curated into an online exhibition. They want to hear from anyone who would like to share their favourite love-themed photographs, objects or memories.
To follow the stories, and submit your own follow the Museum on Facebook, Twitter @bridportmuseum and Instagram @bridport_museum and using the hashtag #Bridportlovestories. You can also email director@bridportmuseum.co.uk if you don’t use social media.