Traditionally, the mother of the bride’s outfit for a wedding is meant to be modest and co-ordinate with the bridal party.

“Once I had [my mom's dress] on, the idea ... to use the bodice as a top and wear it for one of my wedding events" just "came to me," she tells PEOPLE Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at ...

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"She also refuses to have a bridal party, so her sisters are hurt because they wanted to be bridesmaids," the ... a plain white dress instead," she wrote, which saddened her mother because she ...