Mum documents daughter growing up by snapping photos of her in wedding dress
A proud mum has shared adorable photos of her daughter wearing her wedding dress every year for the past 17 years.
Aneta Zeppetella, 51, first snapped her daughter, Carla, in the wedding dress when she was aged one and carried on the tradition as she thought that it would make for a lovely memory to look back on.
Carla, now 17, loved it so much that she would remind her mum each year to take a photo of her in the dress around the date of her birthday. "It definitely makes me feel sentimental. It sounds cliché, but really, years are short," Aneta said.
"I think this is a great memory for her to keep. Her dad, David, cannot believe how fast the time has gone when he looks back at the pictures."
Aneta got the idea from a parenting magazine when her daughter was just a baby. Due to her own wedding being fairly rushed, Aneta does not have any pictures of herself from her big day, so she thought that putting her daughter in the dress every year was the next best thing.
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Carla has been snapped in the wedding dress every year for the past 17 years (@mamma2one / CATERS NEWS)
Carla, age 16, pictured in the wedding dress her mum Aneta wore for her wedding in 2000 (@mamma2one / CATERS NEWS)The mum who lives with her family in Ohio, has been with her husband, David, 57, for 24 years, and the couple got married on May 5, 2000, after Aneta, originally from Szczecin, Poland, moved to the USA in 1999. She bought the wedding dress on clearance a couple of days before her wedding and chose to have a small celebration, as she was an exchange student and her visa was going to expire, which meant she didn't have time to plan a big event.
Every so often the family looks back at the pictures, which show Carla's amazing transformation from baby to young woman. "I got mostly very positive reactions and many sweet comments from people online," Aneta said.
"I got a share of negative comments. Some people - without knowing my story or my daughter's story - accused me of forcing her to wear this dress to her wedding, to stay thin, or to get married.
"My daughter would not wear this to her wedding - the dress doesn't really have any sentimental value to me. I would say about 80 percent of comments were very positive and saw it for what it was - documenting a passage of time, showing her growth.
"I cannot believe that my daughter is almost an adult and that we are now done with the wedding dress picture series. She is an incredible person and my best friend. Time really goes so fast."
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