You will also receive some of your gown back to donate, which is a special touch. You can even virtually meet the seamstress who created the dress. With your $100 donation, you can watch your wedding dress go from your closet to the hospital where it will be given to babies. To learn more about the organization, visit /SunshineStateAngelGowns.Ĭopyright 2018 by WKMG ClickOrlando - All rights reserved.If you want to donate your wedding dress to a charity that helps women heal, consider donating to the Angel Gowns Project. She hopes to one day thank the woman who gifted her the outfit for her son, the store was sold shortly after they met. "It's all through word of mouth and social media," Cortes said.
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Right now Sunshine State Angel Gowns is in need of volunteers, Cortes offers to teach beginners how to sew, and is recruiting high school students in need of community service hours. "We talk and it brings healing, talking about our babies is the most important thing, we don't want them forgotten," Cortes said.
She said the biggest challenge is recruiting volunteers, and many people consider what she does as "morbid." Now Cortes has delivered angel gowns to hospitals as far north as Tallahassee to as far south as Fort Myers. And we want to break the silence," Cortes said. And every day it just grows more and more it's just people don't talk about it, it's a taboo. And that's where I saw - wow, there is a big need. "I started putting them together and once I had enough, I started going out to the hospitals. Shortly after, she began sewing angel gowns for an organization in Texas. So she ended up gifting me my son's clothes," she said.Ĭortes called it a life-altering moment. Finally she got me some water, when I finally calmed down, I was able to tell her what my problem was, and she ended up saying don't worry about it. "She kept asking me what was wrong and I really couldn't talk. "On the way to the hospital, he died in my arms," Cortes said. "When I went to the store to get that last outfit for my son, I only had $50, and when she told me the total that it was $75 I completely just broke down, and I started crying."Ĭortes said it was nearly impossible to verbalize her overwhelming feeling of agony. The family had just finished renovating their home to be handicap accessible.
"Gifting a mother this outfit, it's one less thing that she checks off her list," Cortes said, talking about a list she knows personally.Ĭortes lost her son Robert Junior "Tito" when he was five and a half years old. Those packages are then gifted to parents so they can have a final outfit for their child. She said the volunteers take the donated gowns, remove the crinoline then deconstruct them and package them with a photo. Her workshop has received gowns from all over Central Florida, some still with tags, others from out of state. "Because nobody goes into the hospital thinking that their baby's not going to come home with them," Cortes said. "These are for the early miscarriages," Cortes said as she opened a small plastic package with a white embroidered blanket.Ĭortes' organization, Sunshine State Angel Gowns, collects donated wedding dresses from brides and transforms them into bereavement gowns for children who never leave the hospital. Now, that dress will serve a new purpose - a gift for grieving parents. "So she sent a little note, 'Enclosed you'll find my old wedding gown from 1998,'" Cortes said. Soon, the donated dresses will be transformed. Virginia Cortes pulled out five white satin dresses from a rack in a sunlit workshop. – Every wedding gown tells a story, and so does every angel gown.
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