Librarian loans out wedding dresses!

Since she was a girl, Adele Puccio has loved wedding gowns. It always saddened her that most end up in the back of a closet. But today, this librarian has come up with a beautiful way to recycle these lovely dresses!

- Diane Herbst

One day last year, Adele Puccio, the director of the Maurice M. Pine Free Public Library, in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, received a call from a librarian from a nearby town. “My director told me you might be able to help me,” she began.

The woman wasn’t looking for a rare book. The fellow librarian was a bride-to-be. “I was told that you have wedding dresses in small sizes,” she went on to say.

“Yes!” Adele said and invited her to stop by the library and have a look at her collection.

Since girlhood, Adele has had a fascination with bridal attire. She would sneak into the famous Kleinfeld Bridal near her Brooklyn, New York, home and watch brides-to-be model all types of dresses, and she devoured