Bride Surprises Grandma By Wearing Her Wedding Gown 55 Years Later

The story behind one bride’s “something borrowed”  might just bring a tear to your eye. 

When bride Jordyn Jensen of Boise, Idaho married groom Dakota Cleverly on Sept. 23, she wore the same long-sleeved lace dress that her grandma Penny Jensen wore at her own wedding back in 1962.

What makes this story even sweeter is that the bride didn’t tell Grandma Penny whose husband died before Jordyn was born  that she planned to wear the dress until the night of the rehearsal dinner. That’s when Jordyn and her wedding photographer Kortney Peterson surprised Penny during a special “first look” photo shoot.

“I didn’t want her to see [the dress] for the first time walking down the aisle and just start sobbing and [have] all those memories come back to her,” Jordyn told Inside Edition. 

The photographer shared the emotional images  on the Love What Matters Facebook page, calling it, “a first look unlike any other I’ve done before.”

“The grandmother had no idea the bride even had her dress in her possession. Jordyn and I stepped out [of the rehearsal dinner] and got her all ready and into the dress,” Kortney told HuffPost. “We got her grandmother to step outside and we showed her the old photo of her in the dress that was going to be displayed at the wedding.”

Then Penny turned around and saw Jordyn sporting the timelessly elegant gown.

“It was an absolutely beautiful moment and everyone around was silent,” Kortney told HuffPost. “Tears began to stream from everyone’s faces.”

The bride told Inside Edition that the moment left her grandma “just speechless.”

“I kind of blacked out for a second because it was such an emotional rollercoaster. All I heard her saying in the back was, ‘Wow, wow, wow.’ I finally went up and hugged her and she whispered in my ear, ‘I married my high school sweetheart in this dress and so will you.’” 

During the shoot, perfectly clear skies suddenly gave way to rain showers, which the family thought could be a sign from the bride’s late grandfather. 

“We all viewed that as sweet teardrops from heaven,” Kortney told HuffPost. “Since her grandfather passed away many years ago, it was like he was there with his sweet wife watching Jordyn wearing the dress from their big day. Truly beautiful.”

H/T Love What Matters

HuffPost reached out to the bride for comment but had not heard back at the time of publication. This story may be updated.