- Shelley, owner of Becker’s Bridal, on a stack of wedding gowns with her trusty measuring tape.
Becker’s Bridal, a mainstay on Fowler’s Main Street since 1934
The Magic Room
You can see why they call it The Magic Room!
Shelley Becker Mueller, current owner of Becker’s
Grandma Eva, the founder of Becker’s Bridal, and her husband Frank.
The current staff at Becker’s
“Trashing the Dress,” as described in The Magic Room.
The Hansen girls all vowed to save their kisses for the men they’d marry.
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- Becker’s Bridal is in an old bank that went under during the Depression.
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- Fowler, Michigan, is a town with 1,100 residents – and 2,500 wedding dresses.
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- Sharon and Clark Becker, Shelley’s parents, ran the store for decades.
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- Shelley, the current owner, began working at Becker’s at age fourteen.
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- Julie and Jeff were married in 1987. They have five children.
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- The Hansen sisters and their mother, Lynn.
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- The Otto sisters pose as Charlie’s Angels.
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- Jennifer and Matthew on their wedding day, with Victoria
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- Shelley’s daughter Alyssa (front row, on left, in black dress) is the fourth generation in the Becker family to work at the store. She used a cropped version of this bouquet-toss photo as her Facebook profile picture.
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- Danielle’s relationship with her grandmother, Cynda, unfolds in the book
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- Meredith, Ron and their mostly middle-aged bridal party
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- The pedestal in The Magic Room
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- Meredith as a young career woman in Japan in 1992. She’d finally marry at age forty.
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- Ashley and her fiancé Drew. Ashley left rural Michigan behind and traveled the world.
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- Danielle and her fiancé, Brian. He whispered words about her mother at their first dance.
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- Erika and her new husband Reuben, an Iraq war veteran. She kept her promise and saved herself for him.
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- Shane and Megan got married in the wake of an accident.
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- When Courtney married John, she welcomed his two kids into her life.
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- Julie and her new husband, Dean. An emotional second marriage for both.
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- Shelley, owner of Becker’s Bridal, on a stack of wedding gowns with her trusty measuring tape.
Many thanks to Kelly Lynne Burke for photos of Becker’s Bridal and “Trashing The Dress”
More of her photos at: www.kellylynnephotography.com
(Photo of bouquet toss by Benjamin David Photography www.benjaminfriedkin.com)
