"The first cut was the hardest," said Tess Heidelberger. Tess Heidelberger, of Mauldin, South Carolina, turned her 1980s wedding dress into a Christmas tree skirt. Courtesy of Tess Heidelberger — ...

Two hundred miles west of the Triangle, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, two waterfalls begin at the head of Linville Gorge. As they cascade down a series of tiers, they merge into one before plunging ...

You spend a lot of money on a wedding dress only to wear it once, but one woman figured out a way to break out her gown every year. Tess Heidelberger turned her 1980s dress into a holiday decor staple ...

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Many couples still get married in church, where they sing “I’ll Fly Away” (which is how we got the slang term “walk down the I’ll”). But even though some wedding traditions remain, much of the ...