People who enjoy weddings should look forward to the Romeo Monday Club's upcoming fundraiser. The Romeo Monday Club will host "A Century of Fashion ... Here Comes the Bride," a program about the history of wedding fashion and how it was a reflection of the times, on March 27 at 2 p.m. at St. John Lutheran Church in Romeo. The program is the Monday Club's biggest fundraiser and helps provide scholarships to Romeo High School students.

Mary Hummon, a member of the Monday Club and one of the driving forces behind the event, said the idea to focus on wedding fashion came about last summer when the group was brainstorming fundraising ideas.

The group held a similar program around five years ago but focused on fashion in general. Hummon said this year's program is already garnering a lot of attention because of many women's innate interest in weddings.

"There is nothing that inspires more feminine rapture than a wedding," she said.

The program will feature more than 60 wedding dresses dating back to the late 1800s. Hummon said the dresses will range from bridal gowns and bridesmaid gowns, to dresses worn by mothers and mothers-in-law. The gowns will be modeled by more than a dozen women, including members of the Monday Club.

Hummon said the program will last an hour and focuses on more than just the dresses themselves. "This is more of a light-hearted study of wedding fashion, of who we are at any given point in history," she said. "It is more than just about the style, it is about the history of women, American women, in the last 100 years."

Hummon said she was amazed when she started to study the dresses, from hearing stories about the people who wore them and learning about how they represented the time periods when they were worn. Continued...