How a single wedding dress created sisterhood among 13 brides

What started arsenic a spontaneous connection betwixt 2 strangers has turned into a sisterhood betwixt 13 brides — with a azygous wedding formal helping each of their dreams travel true.

A decennary ago, Sara Blakely, the laminitis of Spanx, was retired for a hike erstwhile she struck up a speech with Nataly Dawn, who was recently engaged.

"In that moment, I don't cognize why, I said, 'Oh, well, you should deterioration my wedding dress,'" Blakely said.

Dawn said she didn't cognize what to accidental and told Blakely she was acceptable connected formal buying with her mom.

A twelvemonth went by, and past Blakely heard from Dawn. When Dawn got her formal backmost from alterations, she said they had messed it up. Her wedding was successful conscionable a fewer days, and she wanted to cognize if Blakely's connection to get her formal inactive stood.

The formal was past overnighted to Dawn. It acceptable her perfectly.

"They're buttoning up the backmost and … you look up afterwards, there's this infinitesimal of however like," Dawn said.

"Sisterhood of the traveling wedding dress"

It kick-started a concatenation of events implicit the adjacent 10 years.

"I turned to my squad and said, 'Let's enactment it connected my Instagram,' and the sisterhood of the traveling wedding formal started," Blakely said.

Sara Blakely, the laminitis of Spanx, offered her wedding formal to a newly-engaged bride a decennary ago. Now the "traveling wedding dress" has been worn by 13 brides and ne'er altered.   CBS News

LeJeanne Thomas joined the sisterhood successful 2020 aft the store she bought her wedding formal from unopen down during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Now, 13 brides person worn the dress. It was cleaned, repaired, passed on and has ne'er been altered.

Ten years aft Blakely loaned her formal to Dawn, the 2 yet met again. Thomas joined them.

"I conscionable emotion that we each person this connection. I emotion that we are similar … a portion of a communicative that makes radical consciousness good, but besides sparks a thought for them connected honoring that voice, that interior voice, immoderate that is," Blakely said.

She hopes it inspires different brides to see paying it forward.

"I consciousness similar philanthropy oregon giving backmost oregon making a quality successful people's lives tin hap successful truly tiny ways," she said.