Josette's wedding dress was an original, sleeveless, Parisian white gown. In the summer of 1797, Barnabas Collins purchased the dress for his lover, Josette DuPres. It was the gown that she was destined to wear on their wedding night. In July of that year, Josette discovered that her lover was actually a vampire. Barnabas intended on making her his immortal bride. Terrified at the thought of becoming a creature of the night, Josette ran away from Barnabas out into the rain. Wearing the dress, she leapt from the peak high atop Widows' Hill and fell to her death on the rocks below.