When Lillian Judd packed away her wedding dress after marrying her sweetheart Cecil, the local shopkeeper's son, in April 1939, she didn't have an inkling that the slinky, satin gown with orange blossom embroidery would be the focal point of four more weddings.
Australia entered World War II just months after the Judds married, and life in their tiny home town of Merrigum in northern Victoria began to change.
Couples planning a wartime wedding had to get creative, as Anne Tyson of the Merrigum Historical Society recalled.
