In an age of gender equality, they may be US history’s favorite couple. Some 250 years later, a wife who stands up for women’s interests and holds her own in intellectual discussions with a husband who is making a revolution and defying a king wins our vote....

Three historical sites will host events in the 250th Wedding Anniversary Celebration Weekend of Abigail and John Adams. The First Church in Weymouth will host a reenactment of the marriage ceremony on Friday morning. The reenacted wedding reception will take place at the Abigail Adams Birthplace in Weymouth Friday evening. A performance of songs based on the famous letters between the first power couple sweetens the hours Saturday afternoon at the Adams National Historic Park in Quincy.

“Abigail was perhaps the most widely respected and influential woman of the new country, and one of the most famous of America’s first ladies because of her strong advocacy for the rights of women conveyed in letters to her husband, “ said Cathy Torrey, president emeritus of the Abigail Adams Historical Society.

For Friday’s wedding reenactment, Abigail Elias LaCroix, a direct descendant of the famous couple, portrays Abigail, and Michael Lepage portrays John. Fashion note: Guests are encouraged to dress in 18th-century costumes.

Friday night’s reception at the Abigail Adams Birthplace, a chance to mingle at the home where Abigail and John courted, is a paid event. Tickets are $125.

On Saturday the historians take over. Scholars will hold a symposium at the church in the morning, and Stanford University historian Edith Gelles, author of a book about the union of Abigail and John, will speak at the luncheon at the birthplace.

The Adams National Park gets into the act that afternoon, hosting a world premiere performance of James Kallembach’s “Songs on Letters of John and Abigail Adams,” a seven-song cycle performed by The Lydian Quartet and guest soloists.