Few days are more precious than your wedding day. You spend months maybe years planning each detail and, if you’re like many brides, your favorite but the most stressful part is picking out the perfect dress. It’s a dress that will be captured in photos that you will be looking at for the rest of your life. Some women get custom-made gowns; some women buy straight off the rack, some even have dresses repurposed. Our story today is about a woman who wanted to commemorate a grandmother that she never met by wearing one of her dresses. Looking at the dress though, you never would’ve thought it was vintage!
Madison Kantzer says that she was not the type of girl to spend hours planning her dream wedding. She was altogether a pretty laid-back bride, but she did know what one specific detail would be as soon as her boyfriend proposed to her in 2015. She knew exactly what dress she would be wearing. It takes some women months to find the right dress, but she knew right away.
Since she was a little girl, she had admired the beautiful floor length gown hanging in the closet that had once belonged to her grandmother Adele. Madison never met her grandmother because she died at the age of 40 when her own mother was only 14. Madison’s mom, Patricia, does tell lots of stories about her so Madison sort of feels like she knows her. She also hears a lot from her grandmother’s best friend, Geraldine Simon. Geraldine and her husband Carl stepped up and acted as sort of adoptive grandparents for Kantzer.
According to Patricia, her mom was progressive for her time and had even applied to law school before she passed away. Patricia says that Madison and Adele have that common. Her mother felt strongly about specific causes and standing up for what she believed in, and Patricia sees that in Madison too. Both share a love of traveling as well. Madison and Patricia don’t have many mementos of the woman except for some photographs, jewelry, and, of course, the dress Madison hadn’t been able to get out of her mind since she was a little girl.
Adele who was described as a fun and stylish woman wore her stunning dress to her sons Bar Mitzvah. Unfortunately, the family does not have Adele’s wedding dress that was also equally beautiful. The dress maker is unknown, all they know about it is that Adele purchased it from a store called Hirshleifers. In order to preserve the dress, Patricia took it to Neiman Marcus where they taught her how to care for it. It primarily remained in a brown paper bag, except for the occasional game of dress up.
When it came time for Madison to wear the beautiful and sentimental dress, she was relieved to find her grandmother, and she had something else in common, their size. Madison’s mom had requested that no alterations be made to the dress so thankfully it fit perfectly.
Weddings are a beautiful day that combines both the newness of the union of two people and the memories and sentiment from other families. Madison brought the ceremony together perfectly with her grandmother’s dress.
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Source: Today Show
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