Quito, Ecuador, Dec 28, 2017 / 12:01 pm
A Catholic wedding planner has encouraged married women in Ecuador to "put a smile on the face of a poor bride" by donating their wedding dresses this Christmas.
"The goal is to have women give up their wedding dresses, since they don't have a real use for them anymore. What's better than keeping them is to give them to someone who needs one," Maria Alejandra Guerra told ACI Prensa.
Guerra explained that the idea came to her Nov. 26, when she went with a group of missionaries from the Bonds of Marian Love Movement to St. Arnoldo Janssen Parish, located in a poor section of Guayaquil, to coordinate a Christmas campaign for the children there.
She said that the pastor, Fr. John Codjoe, told them that one of the parish's ministries was marriage preparation, and that because "most of these women don't have wedding gowns," that he was looking for dresses to be donated.