{"id":11339,"date":"2025-08-11T08:25:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/?p=11339"},"modified":"2025-08-11T08:48:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:48:25","slug":"bella-brides-donates-dresses-for-cinderellas-closet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/2025\/08\/11\/bella-brides-donates-dresses-for-cinderellas-closet\/","title":{"rendered":"Bella Brides Donates Dresses for Cinderella&#8217;s Closet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"353\" data-end=\"554\">High school students in Deschutes County will have dozens of stunning new dresses to choose from at Assistance League of Bend\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/philanthropic-programs\/cinderellas-closet\/\">Cinderella\u2019s Closet<\/a>, thanks to a generous donation from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bellabridesbend.com\/dresses\">Bella Brides.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"556\" data-end=\"749\">While Bella Brides has long carried prom gowns alongside their wedding dresses, their local shop is now focusing exclusively on bridal wear. Owner Charlene Burzynski explained the decision to donate:<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"556\" data-end=\"749\"><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cWe chose Cinderella\u2019s Closet because we wanted people to be able to enjoy these at no cost. They\u2019re gorgeous dresses, and I just think it would hurt my heart a little bit to give them to Goodwill. I would rather see them here, in\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0this community, and have our girls be able to use them for next prom season.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1064\" data-end=\"1391\">Cinderella\u2019s Closet offers Deschutes County high school students the chance to borrow from a vast selection of hundreds of new and gently used formal dresses, shoes, and accessories for school dances\u2014all free of charge. The program ensures that financial barriers don\u2019t prevent students from attending these special events.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"tncms-region-article_instory_top\" class=\"tncms-region hidden-print\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High school students in Deschutes County will have dozens of stunning new dresses to choose from at Assistance League of Bend\u2019s Cinderella\u2019s Closet, thanks to a generous donation from Bella Brides. While Bella Brides has long carried prom gowns alongside their wedding dresses, their local shop is now focusing exclusively on bridal wear. Owner Charlene [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20438,"featured_media":11338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,61,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cinderellas-closet","category-programs","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11339"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11347,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11339\/revisions\/11347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}