Heidi Janson, a boutique owner from the bridal industry, started Brides Across America three years ago to help female soldiers who are shipping overseas or brides of military men.
The organization hosts twice-yearly bridal events in two dozen cities across America giving away hundreds of dresses donated by bridal shops and designers to female soldiers and the intended brides of male soldiers who’d been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.
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