BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Finding the perfect gown is hard, especially since they can cost hundreds of dollars. But on Saturday a conference room at Wind Creek in Bethlehem turned into a Pop-Up Prom Shop filled with racks and racks of gowns in all sizes and colors.<\/p>\n
“This year I think we’ve reached over 900 dresses,” said Aliya Ali, Administrative Support Specialist with the YWCA Bethlehem.<\/p>\n
Each dress, priced at $20 dollars. It’s all thanks to the YWCA Bethlehem and community sponsors. This is the 19th year the YWCA has held the event.<\/p>\n
“You’re happy and excited for this new milestone without having to feel weighted down about the price of it. Am I going to burden my family or things like that,” said Ali.<\/p>\n
Thanks to real life fairy godmothers, volunteers like Peggy King with Members First Federal Credit Union, dress shopping is not as stressful.<\/p>\n
“I’m hoping that the individuals that participate, they walk away feeling good,” said King. “The moms and daughters, and we even had a few boys come through as well for suits, just walk away feeling good and knowing that they can go to the prom and have a good time.”<\/p>\n
Even FeFe from the IronPigs was on hand to help and try on some dresses herself.<\/p>\n
Ladies also walked away with the perfect accessories, that included jewelry and makeup.<\/p>\n
The proceeds from the dresses will go towards the YWCA Youth Empowerment Programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Finding the perfect gown is hard, especially since they can cost hundreds of dollars. But…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,1391],"class_list":["post-151203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}