You’ll Never Guess The Heartwarming Reason Why This Woman Destroyed Her Wedding Dress

For most women, their wedding dress is perhaps one of their most prized and cherished possessions. That is what they were wearing on their body when they married the man or woman they love and made one of the biggest decisions and choices they will ever make in their lives.

But normally, that dress is only worn once and will soon wear out over the years, so what do you do with it. Obviously, lots of women elect to keep it somewhere while others (who aren’t that attached to the dress) will simply sell it, donate it or garbage it. But one woman did something so spectacular with her dress that warrants me writing this article right now.

Rather than have her wedding dress sit on her dresser or closet for decades and do nothing but collect dust, Justi Underwood Bates had a better idea. The Kentucky resident actually sent her dress away to be made into 17 small “angel” dresses.

After getting her gown back in the form of these 17 little dresses, she took to Facebook to let people know what she’s doing. Her heartwarming post consisted of the following:

“Today I received my wedding gown back. I sent it off earlier this year to be made into angel gowns for babies that don’t make it home from the hospital and I’ll be donating them to the NICU at Vanderbilt. Seventeen little gowns were made from my dress and as beautiful as they are I pray they are never needed.”

She transformed one, useless old wedding dresses to her into 17 little dresses that could possibly help ease the pain that some families, unfortunately, have to face. The problem of infant mortality is probably bigger than you think and there is no doubt that these dresses will at least provide a tiny sliver of happiness in a horrific time for families.

These dresses are donated to North American families who have lost a young one and now have something beautiful to lay them to rest in. While we hope that none of these ever need to be used, it was still a brilliant act of kindness from Bates.

The selflessness of herself to take one of her most prized possessions and transform it into something that has real value to society brings a tear to my eye.