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The Amazing Reason This Wedding Dress Will Be Worn By 12 Different Women

Like a real-life version of the "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" only better.

21 March, 2018
The Amazing Reason This Wedding Dress Will Be Worn By 12 Different Women

Dawnetta Heinz, a 22-year-old personal trainer from Omaha, Nebraska, has recently gone viral for starting a wedding dress chain so that women in need can have the dress of their dreams.

Heinz, who once went through a period of homelessness and lived in her car, instead decided to pass on her dress to a woman who could use it, instead of letting the dress sit in storage. The personal trainer and mom of one, told YahooStyle that after her first wedding anniversary, she decided to offer the dress to any woman who couldn't afford it in a buy/sell/trade Facebook group. After reading all the comments from women who could use the dress, Heinz decided to continue passing the dress along down the line, so several women can now experience the dress. Heinz says there are already 12 women in mind who have expressed interest in wanting to borrow the dress, and Heinz says she wants to continue passing the dress along, as long as there's interest.

Heinz said over the phone that she was inspired to pass the dress on because she wanted to help other people feel beautiful. "I'm actually a trainer, and seeing people being down on themselves all the time and getting judged for being themselves, it's one of those things that just lead me to [passing the dress on]. If it's something as simple as a wedding dress that I can give back to help somebody feel that way, just lead me to do that."

One of the first women to benefit from Heinz's dress will be Arianna Pro, a mom of four, who will be wearing the $1,200 David's Bridal dress to her vow renewal ceremony this week. Pro told Yahoo that she had just lost a son, and wanted to renew her vows for her children. "We got married at the courthouse. Now we have four children and kind of have the means to do it right, and have them be there with us to let them see that mommy and daddy love each other still."

The gesture is especially nice when you consider how special wedding dresses usually are. While many women choose to keep their dresses for their daughters or in storage as a reminder of their special day, it definitely takes a kind of selflessness I don't think I'd have, to part ways with such a sentimental dress.

Photos courtesy of Schirmbeck Photography.

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