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

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

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…