Like mom, like daughter?
A proud mama is documenting her little lady’s progress by means of the years in an unorthodox method — by taking pictures of her carrying her mom’s wedding ceremony costume on her birthday yearly.
Aneta Zeppettella, 51, claims she was impressed to start the annual custom after studying in regards to the concept in a parenting journal.
Whereas she isn’t sentimental in regards to the wedding ceremony costume itself, Aneta thought the pictures could be a candy technique to document her daughter Carla’s life and seize reminiscences of her childhood — from the ages 1 to 17.
“It undoubtedly makes me really feel sentimental. It sounds cliché — however actually, years are quick,” she advised Caters Information. “I feel this can be a nice reminiscence for her to maintain.”
Aneta, who lives along with her household in Ohio, has been collectively along with her husband, David Zeppettella, 57, for twenty-four years.
The couple bought married on Might 5, 2000, after Aneta moved from Szczecin, Poland, to the US in 1999. Aneta was dwelling within the nation on a pupil visa when she fell in love with David.
She needed to plan the marriage shortly to get every little thing so as earlier than her visa expired and purchased the marriage costume on clearance a few days earlier than her wedding ceremony.
Whereas the garment itself doesn’t imply a lot to her, the pictures and reminiscences it has created do.
Carla liked having her picture taken in her mom’s wedding ceremony costume yearly and would remind Aneta each time her birthday got here round.
After celebrating Carla’s seventeenth birthday, the household determined to finish the collection however cherish the reminiscences.
“Her dad, David, can’t imagine how briskly the time has gone when he appears to be like again on the footage,” Aneta shared.
The picture collection, which Aneta posted on her Instagram, has acquired some hate from strangers who don’t perceive the pictures.
“I bought a share of adverse feedback. Some individuals — with out understanding my story or my daughter’s story — accused me of forcing her to put on this costume to her wedding ceremony, to remain skinny, or to get married,” Aneta mentioned.
“My daughter wouldn’t put on this to her wedding ceremony — the costume doesn’t actually have any sentimental worth to me.”
Nonetheless, general the reactions have been very “candy” and “constructive.”
“I can’t imagine that my daughter is sort of an grownup and that we at the moment are performed with the marriage costume image collection. She is an unbelievable particular person and my greatest buddy. Time actually goes so quick,” Aneta mentioned.
The Submit has contacted the Zeppettella household for remark.
