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McCrabb: Bride hopes third-generation wedding dress remains lucky

Bride wears 3rd generation wedding dress for a lucky marriage like her grandmother, mother

Not only is Jordan Mitterholzer changing her name to Jordan Delgado when she gets married Saturday, but the business that altered her wedding dress — the same dress worn by her mother and grandmother — needs to change names, too.

Twice Blessed Bridal should be called Third Time Threads.

That’s because Mitterholzer, 23, of Dayton, will wear the same dress — with a few alterations, of course — that her grandmother, Jean Beckdahl, 87, wore on April 18, 1953 when she married Walter Beckdahl in Mansfield and her mother, Lynn Mitterholzer, 57, wore on Sept. 19, 1981 when she married Doug Mitterholzer in Springfield.

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