Bride Donates Wedding Dress to Use as Burial Gowns for Stillborn Babies; Internet Explodes with Emotion



Kelly Phillips Badal
January 07, 2016
If you wore your wedding dress for just that one magical day then zipped it away in bag and stashed it back in your closet, Yvonne Trimble has an alternative idea for you. 
And trust us, if you do what she did with her gown, you’ll feel just as many feelings as you did during the Big Day.
Trimble sent her wedding dress to Cherished Gowns for Angel Babies, a charity in Kent, England, that turns wedding dresses into burial gowns for babies who are stillborn or who die shortly after birth. (For those on this side of the Atlantic, NICU Helping Hands’ Angel Gown Program is a similar program in the U.S. and Canada.)

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