4th Annual Dress Giveaway
In March of 2023 we held our first annual Dress Giveaway event to benefit Team Finger Lakes and promote organ donation. Laura’s daughter, Lucy Reff, purchased her wedding dress days before suffering a sudden illness that took her life. Lucy was able to donate saving the lives of four recipients. The owner of the bridal shop where Lucy purchased her dress offered her mom stock from the bridal shop, all still brand new, to use to raise money for our group, in Lucy ‘s memory. It was a huge success allowing anyone to pick out their wedding, prom, bridesmaid, mother of bride/groom, military ball, or pageant dress for “free” with whatever donation they chose to make to us. We held it again in 2024 and 2025 they have all been very successful for not only our fundraising but several hundred women have been able to find the perfect dress.
We are continuing this year for our 4th annual Dress Giveaway. We have hundreds of prom, ball gowns, wedding, Mother of the bride/groom, flower girl, cocktail length, and bridesmaids’ dresses among other. We have changing areas for the ladies to try on as many dresses as they want as well as many accessories such as brand-new dress shoes, jewelry, head wear, wedding shower and wedding supplies and many more. All of this is included in the donation they make for the dress/dresses.