Any bride knows how difficult and exhausting it is to plan the wedding of your dreams, and after months spent fine-tuning the guest list, going to dress fittings, and going to cake tastings, one Canadian bride was glad to have that all behind her with her wedding just days away.
However, Elise Boissonneault and nearly 100,000 other people had to evacuate their homes in For McMurray, Alberta when devastating wildfires tore through the province. Boissonneault was lucky to get out with her life but during the evacuation, she was forced to leave behind almost all of her belongings, which included the wedding dress she planned to wear in just a few days.
Her wedding photographer, Alex Neary, knew how devastated Boissonneault was and decided to post a picture of the bride in her original dress to see if anyone had a similar dress that they’d be willing to lend.
“I posted on Facebook and within an hour hundreds upon hundreds of strangers had reached out, offering to give her their dress to wear. Designers, bridal stores and fellow photographers all did what they could to help her find a new gown.”
“Elise arrived in Toronto at 3pm, I picked her up at 5:30pm and we went to Leaann Belter Bridal where the ever so generous and gracious, Ginny, lent Elise not one but two dresses. One for the ceremony and one to change into for the reception,” Neary wrote. “Elise was so overcome with emotions by everything that has happened and I can safely say that the kindness shown by strangers has touched her more than you will ever know.”
While Boissonneault was ready to go to her wedding in jeans and a t-shirt, she was so grateful that a stranger showed her so much kindness. “I didn’t think there was that kind of kindness in the world,” she said. “It’s just awesome.”
Watch the entire video below to see the touching moment this bride sees herself in her new dress for the first time.
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[Featured image credit: CBC]
Strangers Offer Their Wedding Dresses To Bride-To-Be After Hers Caught Fire is an article from: LifeDaily