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, ...

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 ...

Holy Communion dresses, which little girls wear when they start to take communion as part of a Christian religious service, are often long, frilly, and white. But a children’s clothing company is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kyle Whitefield usually attends Mass wearing a casual shirt and pants. Ava Rose Smith goes to church most weeks wearing a pullover sweater and slacks. But in a few weeks, these 8-year-olds will dress ...

A full year before your first Communion, you started shopping for your dress. Inspired by the girls' attire at your brother's first Eucharist, you begged me to Google "first Communion dress" and oohed ...

As Margaret “Peggy” Muriel Drinkwater Clink tried on the dress, she asked her daughter what color it was. “It’s white,” said Kim Griffith. “We want you to wear the white Communion dress you never had.

CHICAGO (CBS) — A Catholic school in St. John, Ind., has refused to allow a 9-year-old girl to wear a suit to her First Communion, according to the girl's mother. In a post on Facebook that quickly ...