This exhibition is devoted to secular wedding ceremonies in Russia in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Such occasions were considered not only family, but also official, public celebrations and were expected to conform to certain established ways of doing things. Outward manifestations of those rules were the outfits worn by brides and also a variety of accessories that accompanied the ceremony. The wedding was usually preceded by a formal engagement. The exhibition includes the dress that Zinaida Naryshkina, soon to become Princess Yusupova, wore for her betrothal, as well as the icon used to bless the future bride and groom. Wedding dresses made from white fabric were sewn specially for the church ceremony. Members of the imperial family got married in grand court dresses and among the display will be the silver brocade wedding outfit of Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna. As well as pieces of applied art, the exhibition will feature paired portraits and also photocopies of 19th-century fashion magazines containing pictures of wedding dresses.