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All About Dolly Parton’s Homemade Wedding Dress (And Why She Secretly Eloped)

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Parton secretly tied the knot with longtime love Carl Dean in 1966.Dolly Parton in a portrait circa 1972.Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesThe GistDolly Parton wore a homemade, knee-length white dress when she eloped with Carl Dean in 1966.They were married for nearly 60 years before his passing in March 2025. Parton died one-and-a-half years later, in August 2026.Dean once called the day they met at a Nashville laundromat “the day my li…
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InStyle broke the news in United States on Tuesday, August 25, 2026.
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