Dress for success: Donated wedding gowns bring joy to health care heroes

The Regent, though hit hard by the pandemic, still finds a way to give back.

  • By Brian Hartz
  • | 11:50 a.m. November 18, 2021
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Courtesy. Hillsborough County first responders and frontline health care workers with wedding dresses they received from The Regent, an event space in Riverview.
Courtesy. Hillsborough County first responders and frontline health care workers with wedding dresses they received from The Regent, an event space in Riverview.
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The pandemic has been a thorn in the side of event spaces, as well as the people who would have rented them for weddings. The Regent, a popular spot for nuptials in Riverview, south Hillsborough County, routinely receives donated demo wedding dresses from local dress shops such as Satin and Lace Bridal Boutique, but with a dearth of weddings in 2020, the gowns just piled up with no one to wear them.

Courtesy. Shannon Keil, CEO of The Regent.
Courtesy. Shannon Keil, CEO of The Regent.

 

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