They limit their bridal dresses to roughly 2000 a year, which is more than enough for their 700 volunteer seamstresses to handle. In fact, to donate, you must sign up for their newsletter and they’ll let you know when donations up again and where/how to send your wedding dress – because they don’t take donations all year – only periodically. In their fourth year in operation, they have received and made thousands of gowns. Their philosophy is simple, “The life of a child, regardless of how long that life is, matters and is important, and should be acknowledged in a way that is respectful and supportive of the family experiencing the loss.” Lisa states, “It is a privilege to travel this journey alongside families.” The program receives hundreds of requests yearly from the US alone. What started as a local program has quickly spread internationally. I thought it was heartbreaking that a family that had just suffered such a great loss had to look through piles of clothing in search of something that might fit or be appropriate to dress their precious baby.” image: NICU Angel Gowns NICU Helping Hands Founder and President Lisa Grubbs says, “I started the Angel Gown®Program in Fort Worth after witnessing a family sorting through laundry baskets and buckets of donated clothing at a hospital after receiving the word that their baby had died. The gowns are hand-crafted from old wedding dresses and some accept certain colored bridesmaid dresses. Located in Forth Worth, TX, they are one of a number of amazing groups that provide burial gowns for these sweet babies. One such organization is called Helping Hands.
There are several organizations out there to help the burden of grieving parents. For parents of these sweet little babies passing from stillbirth or as a premature birth in a hospital’s intensive care unit, the pain can be overwhelming.
Coming home from the hospital to an empty crib is beyond heartbreaking. Losing a child is agonizing and devastating. I found several places that accept old, good condition, clean wedding dresses to be repurposed into gowns. An answer that seemed good for me and my dress. I put the thought out there in within a few days, I found my answer. Well, you know, ask and you shall receive, right? My thing is – if I want to give it to someone that needs it, I certainly don’t want them to have to pay someone for it!
I wanted to donate it, but I didn’t want it to be re-sold. Sitting on a shelf never to see the light of day. It was an amazing dress that has been in a preservation box since I got married. So please enjoy, Angels Wrapped In Love and remember us in your prayers that we continue to do God's work in this special mission.Over the years, I’ve been looking for a place to donate my wedding dress from 1989. We want our babies dressed beautifully, remembering that this will be the only time a parent will be able to dress their special angel. Sad to say we lost Karen Drenner who is now in Heaven with our Angel Babies, but her legacy to our group is continued in the making of bonnets and caps and remembering her always because Karen is the one that came up with our name.Angels Wrapped In Love. In these pages I will show you the wonderful Angel Gowns, lovely bonnets and caps, along with burial and casket blankets, baptismal hankies and finally buntings, all made with love by our volunteers.
#ANGEL BABIES DONATE WEDDING DRESS FREE#
Our Angels gowns are given FREE of charge to anyone who is in need. Now years later we have well over 2.3 k members on our Facebook page and scores of volunteers, some who spread the word for us, some who pick up and deliver the lovely wedding gowns, bridesmaid gowns and prom dresses to us.Īngels Wrapped in Love serves 45 hospitals across and along with several funeral homes across the United States. I then asked Karen's daughter Crystal if she could do a Facebook page for our group. Then a friend Karen Drenner wanted to make bonnets to go with the gowns.how wonderful. I announced what I was going to do on my personal Facebook page and within a week I had 4 wedding gowns brought to me. My heart felt moved to work on this God given mission. In the spring of 2014 I found out about this wonderful project on Facebook. Angels Wrapped in Love.what does that mean? Our group makes burial gowns for the tiny babies that do not get to go home with their parents, but are only here for such a short time.
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