First Communions becoming more elaborate Gown makers prepare for proms%2C weddings to follow Shopping trips bring together generations of women When the little angel is grinning from ear to ear, ...

When Charlotte’s Kids first opened in 1980, Communion dress-buying season was chaotic. Families would come in last-minute to shop for the big occasion and have to wait for a dressing room or someone ...

Port resident Helena Sanders started a project she calls Blessed Dresses. Sanders is collecting gently used First Communion dresses for children who may not be able to afford a dress. She will be ...

LIMA — Lily Whittaker is 8 years old, in second grade at St. Charles Elementary School in Lima, and participated in her first Communion on May 7. Like most girls her age, Lily wore an exquisite, white ...

In the Derbes family home there is a wall of honor. Lined up on the bedroom wall are six pictures featuring pretty little girls in a similar pose. They represent three generations of the Derbes family ...

Vivienne Wood, who runs the Quirky Corner charity shop in Londonderry, says she was blown away by the response from families The manager of a charity shop has said she has been overwhelmed by the ...

An idea that started in the laundry room of a Clarendon Hills family’s home has turned into a noble, and successful, effort that is helping many people whose children are taking first Communion. “I ...

A full year before your first Communion, you started shopping for your dress. Inspired by the girls' attire at your brother's first Eucharist, you begged me to Google "first Communion dress" and oohed ...

The wave of traditionalism that has been sweeping society in the late 1980s, bringing back elaborate weddings and other formal events that demand months of preparation, has not bypassed the Roman ...