Bride-to-be Jordyn Cleverly had her heart set on a vintage wedding dress. Unfortunately, after traipsing from shop to shop, she couldn’t find anything that remotely resembled the style of dress she wanted.
Then Jordyn remembered that her grandmother, Penny Jensen, had been married in a stunning dress back in 1962 and was thinking of donating her vintage dress.
Penny’s husband was her high-school sweetheart, but he passed away before 23-year-old Jordyn was born. Jordyn decided she had to try on her grandmother’s dress before she gave it away to someone else.
“I went and tried it on, and it was actually maybe a size or two too big, and so I contacted a local seamstress to see if there was anything we could do with it. She said, ‘Absolutely, it’s in fantastic shape'," Jordyn told Inside Edition.
“My grandma had zero idea; she had no idea it was even in my possession.”
Once the dress was altered, it fit Jordyn perfectly, and the young woman knew she wanted to wear it to marry her own high-school sweetheart, Dakota Cleverly.
However, she didn’t want to give her grandmother a shock when she walked down the aisle in it.
So, she invited Penny and the rest of the family over to her house on the pretence of having a family photo shoot.
While photographer Kortney Peterson was on hand, she was really there to capture the emotional moment Penny saw Jordyn in her old wedding dress.
“She was just speechless," Jordyn said. "I kind of blacked out for a second because it was such an emotional rollercoaster. All I heard her saying in the back was, ‘Wow, wow, wow.'
"I finally went up and hugged her and she whispered in my ear, ‘I married my high school sweetheart in this dress and so will you.'"
Photographer Kortney captured some incredible photos of the touching moment, and later shared them to the popular Facebook page, Love What Matters.
“A first look unlike any other I’ve done before….Between this sweet bride and her grandma. The bride secretly got her widowed grandma’s dress from 1962 and is wearing it for her big day. Grandma had zero idea! Yes. You guessed it. I bawled,” she wrote.
Jordyn and Dakota tied the knot on September 23, and the bride looked beautiful in the vintage dress of her dreams.
