Stock photograph showing wedding dresses at a shop in Harare on August 25, 2023. A woman in Chicago was horrified when she opened the box containing her wedding dress for the first time in 20 years.

Gwendolyn Stulgis created the Facebook group Shared Dream Dresses in 2022 for brides to donate their wedding dresses to other women. "I never thought the group would turn into women helping and ...