{"id":22868,"date":"2015-06-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/letter-attached-to-wedding-dress\/"},"modified":"2015-06-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T00:00:00","slug":"letter-attached-to-wedding-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/letter-attached-to-wedding-dress\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter attached to wedding dress"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>A Hospice Charity Shop recently received this anonymous donation &#8211; a vintage wedding dress. They weren&#8217;t expecting to find this.<\/h3>\n<p>St Gemma&#8217;s Hospice Charity shop collects donations to help raise money for its cancer patients.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the donation of an ivory lace peplum dress arrived at the shop, and it was clear it had been custom fit for the bride who once wore it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dress\" title=\"BEST OF THE WEB\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/screen_shot_2015-06-17_at_8.38.42_am.png\" width=\"619\" height=\"462\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>Photos | Ebay<\/h6>\n<p>The shop actually posted a picture of the dress, and it&#8217;s gone viral.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Well, the dress had a devastating note attached to it, and the shop wanted to track down the man who penned it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"note\" title=\"BEST OF THE WEB\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/enhanced-32293-1434055503-9.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>Photos | Ebay<\/h6>\n<p>&#8220;I wish any lady who takes this dress to have a life with her loved one 56 years. I was a lucky man to marry a lady like mine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The dress garnered so much interest, that it went on ebay, where it had reached around $1200AUD by late last week.<\/p>\n<p>The shop was also able to get in touch with the man who donated the dress, thanks to the power of social media.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s an 85 year old man who apparently felt ready to part with the dress after all these years.<\/p>\n<p>He was apparently delighted to hear the dress was living on in memory of his late wife.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dress\" title=\"BEST OF THE WEB\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/screen_shot_2015-06-17_at_8.37.10_am.png\" width=\"549\" height=\"816\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/marriage-is-good-for-your-health\">HOW MARRIAGE IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH &#8211; NEW STUDY<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/ghostly-images-caught-on-google#1\">GHOSTLY IMAGES CAUGHT ON GOOGLE STREET VIEW<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Hospice Charity Shop recently received this anonymous donation &#8211; a vintage wedding dress. 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Recently, the donation of an ivory lace peplum dress arrived at the shop, and it was clear it had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":22872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-22868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Letter attached to wedding dress - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/letter-attached-to-wedding-dress\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Letter attached to wedding dress\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Hospice Charity Shop recently received this anonymous donation &#8211; a vintage wedding dress. 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