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- A family of seven from Texas decided to create a new memory when they went out for dinner.
- They all decided to re-wear their wedding dresses and turned heads at the restaurant.
Seven brides; that's what diners of a Texas, USA restaurant saw on 18 May after a family of seven women donned wedding gowns during their last girls' night. Alexis Houston, a lifestyle content creator, uploaded a snippet of the outing to Instagram featuring her mother, Terri Bonin, her sisters Madeleine Frost, Sydnie Bonin, Annalise Hiley, and Kate Bonin, and her sister-in-law Hannah Joy Bonin.
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She captioned the video, "My mom, 5 sisters & I wore our wedding dresses for our monthly dinner & dessert."
On a phone call with Fox News Digital, Madeleine, Sydnie, and Hannah Joy revealed the unique family outing came after one of the Bonin sisters found a similar video of a group of women re-wearing their wedding dresses.
After a brief back and forth, the tight-knit group decided they, too, would don their wedding gowns or their most-expensive evening gowns for a one-of-kind ladies' night.
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"We decided, 'Okay, let's do it'. We always go to dinner once a month anyway, and we already had a 'sister date' planned for that following week," said Hannah.
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Madeleine, Sydnie, Analise, and Hannah Joy wore their wedding gowns while Terri, who couldn't find her wedding gown from the 1980s, wore Sydnie's white prom dress, and Kate, who's unmarried, wore a white dress she found the day of.
Nursing babies were the only other family members to join the ladies-only event.
Aside from last-minute arrangements and purchases, Hannah had to remove her wedding gown from its preservation case, but she said she's happy she had to do that because her four-year-old daughter could try on her veil. "That was really something I wasn't ever going to be able to do if I kept my gown preserved," Hannah remarked.
The sisters said they're hoping to find Terri's wedding gown and make their wedding-themed dinner an annual tradition.
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"We usually go out just in normal attire, but we had so much fun dressing up. Now we're talking about doing themed girls' nights rather than just regular girls' nights," said Madeleine. The sisters recalled that strangers they passed by on the street and people at the restaurant questioned if they were all getting married and offered well wishes and compliments. Hannah said the wedding-theme girls' night unlocked a new core memory that might have made the "Bonin Girls" closer.
"We're already close, and now we have this really strange experience to reflect on," she noted.
While the group of seven expected to catch the eyes of locals and their social media followers, none of them thought they'd go viral with millions of views and hundreds of thousands of likes. "Going viral wasn't our intention that night. We just wanted to pull out our dresses, relive memories and make new ones," said Hannah.
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