First Communions becoming more elaborate Gown makers prepare for proms%2C weddings to follow Shopping trips bring together generations of women When the little angel is grinning from ear to ear, ...

In the Derbes family home there is a wall of honor. Lined up on the bedroom wall are six pictures featuring pretty little girls in a similar pose. They represent three generations of the Derbes family ...

Port resident Helena Sanders started a project she calls Blessed Dresses. Sanders is collecting gently used First Communion dresses for children who may not be able to afford a dress. She will be ...

A Catholic school banned a girl from attending her First Communion because she wouldn’t wear a dress to the ceremony. For Cady Mansell, who has a strong sense of fashion, an all-white suit was the ...

When Charlotte’s Kids first opened in 1980, Communion dress-buying season was chaotic. Families would come in last-minute to shop for the big occasion and have to wait for a dressing room or someone ...

LINWOOD – Sydney Dawkins of Linwood and Brooke Iacono of Cape May Court House met three years ago as members of All-Star Cheerleading and became fast friends. Now they are partners in a charitable ...

The little girl killed in a freak bouncy castle accident has been buried in her prized First Holy Communion dress. Amy Byrne was laid to rest in West Waterford on Tuesday morning, just three days ...

The wave of traditionalism that has been sweeping society in the late 1980s, bringing back elaborate weddings and other formal events that demand months of preparation, has not bypassed the Roman ...