The Wedding

Rebecca Boucher Burns and Benjamin Burns in Top Hat and Crown, two of the 'Sculpture to Wear' series. These were made after reading The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (written in 1859), looking at traditional wedding crowns in Norway and Sweden, and making the surprising discovery that during the 'Age of Liberty' 1718 - 1771 some women in Sweden had the vote. Wedding crowns and attire all over the world often had magical symbols to ward off envy, silver was used in particular.