WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. – What started as a visit to David’s Bridal in Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, turned into a full-on fitting for Stephanie Feeley.<\/p>\n
Her friends, Melody Simmons and Brenda King, paid a visit to the 69 News Studios to share the whole story.<\/p>\n
“(Stephanie) said, ‘Melody, I got some good news! Dean proposed to me!’ I said, ‘Awesome! What did you say?’ She said, ‘ I said yes of course!'” recalled Simmons.<\/p>\n
The ladies became friends with Stephanie at Sights for Hope in Allentown, a non-profit that empowers people with blindness.<\/p>\n
“Finding love when you’re disabled is not easy,” King said.<\/p>\n
For Stephanie, affording a dress was the next challenge. So, Brenda and Melody called David’s Bridal, then convinced Stephanie to go on what she thought would be a little window shopping.<\/p>\n
“There were a whole bunch of people waiting for her when she got there,” Simmons said.<\/p>\n
Understandably, the bride was very emotional.<\/p>\n
“We told her, ‘We want you to know we’re here for you. We’re going to make happen what needs to happen. No matter what,\u2019” recalled King.<\/p>\n
Stephanie had her proposal, now she needed her perfect dress. And she found it.<\/p>\n
“I never imagined this day. I thought it would never happen,” Feeley said.<\/p>\n
Now her dream is a reality.<\/p>\n
“You don’t want to sit in a room and let those four walls close in on you. Get out there. Get moving,” King said.<\/p>\n
On this day, a young woman who can’t see became a vision in white.<\/p>\n
The wedding is set for next August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. – What started as a visit to David’s Bridal in Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, turned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,102434,60814,74888,102435,11558,28505],"class_list":["post-237905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-blind-bride","tag-david","tag-disability-empowerment","tag-foundation-surprise","tag-friendship","tag-wedding-dress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237905","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=237905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}