Making Wedding Dresses Into Angel Dresses

Nicu helping hands angel gown program takes donated wedding dresses and turns them into tiny gowns for these angel babies.

Making wedding dresses into angel dresses. These gowns are prepared by volunteers and given as a gift to bereaved families most often through hospitals or funeral homes. Those working on the dresses say that each angel gown is stitched with heart and hope that the symbolic love of the wedding dresses is passed onto the tragic ending of an infants life. After a facebook post seeking more bridal dresses last year nicu helping hands received about 40 that a handful of volunteer seamstresses. To bring a ray of sunshine into special children s lives we use the left over tulle from wedding dresses and transform it in to the most beautiful tutus which we also donate to hospitals and other children s charities all.

We are a fairly new organisation who rely solely on donations contributions whether it be helping make gowns donating dresses materials or spreading the word if you feel you can help us please get in touch. We need your help but not with wedding dresses right now. These gowns are donated to the hospital and if a baby passes the parents are offered the gowns for burial. Donated wedding gowns are used to sew lovely gowns for babies who have died too early.

Unfortunately during this time we will have to suspend further donations. 11 2019 during an interview at sir pizza in lansing s old town. We are based on surrey. People in the program sew small gowns using upcycled wedding dresses or bridesmaid gowns.

We couldn t have done it without the support and generosity of you our supporters. With our wedding gown donations being currently on a waitlist and on an as needed basis our focus is on getting our gowns into the hands of those that need them. Each wedding gown yields about 12 to 20 angel gowns. Several countries already had very active movements that are often referred to as angel dresses.

Over the past few months we have received over 300 wedding dresses to be turned into little angel gowns. I heard about a program called angel gowns. I thought this was a great cause so i donated my gown to the program. Last year nicu helping hands spent more than 35 000 sending gowns to homes and hospitals.