Elizabeth Jensen went shopping for her wedding gown on February 20th but once she found "The One," something remarkable happened; she discovered that a complete stranger had already bought it for her!
"I was just so incredibly touched. To have that person who can look inside themselves to do something nice for someone else, it's something I'll never forget for sure," the 21-year-old bride tells ABC News.
Carrie Ling, the co-owner of Elizabeth Cooper Design (the store where Jensen got her gown), reveals that the do-gooder shared her intention to pay for a fellow patron's gown but wished to remain anonymous. Then she reportedly "pointed to Liz and said, 'I think I'll pick her,'" after realizing that she was in the shop alone while the others had loved ones with them. She paid for the gown in full and left the store before Jensen could realize what had happened. Once she did, she broke down in tears.
Photos courtesy of Elizabeth Jensen/Facebook
Deseret News reports that had it not been for this mystery woman's generosity, Jensen might not have been able to afford the $480 dress. The seventh of eight children, money was tight in her family, and she was worried about paying for her upcoming college tuition bill (she attends Brigham Young University).
She and her fiancé Jimmy Gillespie plan to pay it forward at their May 1st wedding by having a station where guests can pledge to be kind and do a service for someone else. "You don't necessarily have to go buy a person's wedding dress to help someone. It is in the little things that hearts will be touched and softened. This experience has changed my lifelong perspective," Jensen tells The Daily Mail.
Congratulations to the happy couple!
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