94-year-old woman fulfills lifelong dream of wearing a wedding dress
Martha Mae Ophelia Moon Tucker says Black women were not allowed in bridal shops when she was married in 1952
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A 94-year-old great-great-grandmother’s lifelong dream of wearing a wedding dress was fulfilled, 70 years after her marriage.
As
Martha Mae Ophelia Moon Tucker watched the wedding scene in the movie
Coming 2 America, she whispered something under her breath that made her granddaughter’s ears perk up.
“I’ve always wanted to try on a wedding dress,” Tucker said, which gave her granddaughter
Angela Strozier an idea.
“She said she never wore a wedding dress when she got married,’’ Strozier said. “I said, ‘That’s no problem.’ She kinda brushed me off. She didn’t think I would do it.”