Timeline

Wedding

5:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Cocktail attire. No jeans. In order to preserve the mansion floors, guests of the mansion are discouraged from wearing spiky heels.

Ceremony begins at 5PM with dinner and dancing to follow. Dresser Mansion was built in 1919 for Carl and Pauline Dresser of Bradford, Pennsylvania. The style of the mansion is Italian Renaissance. The exterior stucco walls contain ground marble dust, and the stucco was hand applied by Italian artisans. During construction of the lavish but intimate home, the Dressers traveled Europe with their interior decorators to amass a collection of 16th century furniture, tapestries, textiles, silver, and Oriental rugs. The mansion contains some 55 rooms and 35 closets. The Dresser home was designed for intimate entertaining amongst the old world backdrop. It was the site of many elegant dinner parties. During an Oil Exposition sometime in the 1920's, Carl and Pauline held a dinner at which the male guests received gold cigarette cases and the women received diamond rings. A testament to the lifestyle to which the young couple had been accustomed.