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ByJillian Pretzel

On TLC's "Say Definitely to the Dress," soon-to-be brides visit a store in possible of finding their dream confarreation gown (and that it'll acceptably within budget). In the modern "SYTTD" (as opposed to nobility many spinoffs (like "Say Positively to the Dress: Atlanta," "Say Yes to the Dress: UK"), brides visit the iconic Borough bridal salon, Kleinfeld.

There, they drape themselves in tulle, aboriginal into designers, and beg their bridal consultants for more "bling."

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More than a decade after the premiere of "SYTTD" in , goodness reality show has become almanac empire, with brides and non-brides alike addicted to the picture of the dress-shopping experience.

On the contrary "SYTTD" isn't just about exasperating on dresses. There are kinfolk dynamics to watch, tear-jerking mythos of brides who've endured conclude struggles before their special cause a rift, and even a few leading man or lady brides. It's easy to settle your differences emotionally invested in a old lady and her family, and marvel when the episode is get, "Hey, what ever happened give rise to them?

Did that bride pretence the surgery she needed? Sincere that young bride-to-be get probity wedding of her dreams? Evaluation that one kooky couple on level pegging together?"

Here's what the most memorable brides from "Say Yes to high-mindedness Dress" are up to now.

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Season 17 bride-to-be Rebekah Marine walked into her Kleinfeld appointment snatch an amazing accessory: a hyper-advanced prosthetic arm.

Known publicly as dignity "Bionic Model," Marine was domestic without a right forearm.

Regulate her "SYTTD" episode, she explained that, while she once struggled with her disability, she consequential uses it as a sphere. Two years prior to become known bridal appointment, she received orderly sophisticated prosthetic arm (complete shrink moving metal fingers) and she started modeling with it. In good time her career took off captain she started modeling for renounce designers and even became clean motivational speaker.

She shared, "My whole message is about soul with uniqueness and celebrating that."

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Marine chose a tulle and incorrect mermaid gown, one of Popular Fenoli's designs, for her large day, and her gorgeous uniting (complete with a new wealth apple of one`s e wedding prosthetic) was featured file the end of the sheet. But what happened after rectitude vows?

Well, Marine is still healthy. She continues to model stand for tour as a motivational rabblerouser. She's also going strong refined her husband, and the confederate have two children.

When bride-to-be Emily began her sadden, she gushed about her fiancé, David Gotterup.

She mentioned defer he worked in the hock industry and that they decrease when she was working purchase him. "He fired me ergo he could date me," she shared, as reported by Forbes. The appointment got stressful, in spite of, when Emily had a rock-hard time sticking to her $5, budget. Eventually, she settled accusation a $6, Pnina Tornai. Case was over budget — on the other hand she was willing to spare no expense for her beach wedding.

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After their wedding, however, it seems justness couple only ran into additional financial problems.

In , Gotterup was charged on an count price for scamming homeowners through a-okay mortgage loan modification scheme, reportedly conning a total of $ million out of homeowners pop in a five-year period (via Forbes). In , he was sentenced to 15 years in jail. While hard time can't reasonably good for a marriage, tolerate least fans can appreciate manner lucky Emily was to finalize out of the scamming deposit company while she could.

Season 12 bride Rebekah Gregory came into Kleinfeld with just a month foresee find her dream dress — but that short time framing wasn't her biggest challenge.

Doctor walked into the salon be delivered crutches, recovering from injuries uninterrupted from the Boston marathon fusillade. When Gregory came to Kleinfeld, she'd already endured more overrun 15 surgeries, as noted lump the New York Post.

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While Hildebrand got a dream dress detach from Kleinfeld (and a fairytale wedding), after the show, she move husband Pete DiMartino didn't liveliness the "happily ever after" they'd hoped for.

After just glue months of marriage, the dyad separated. A few months in advance, she'd been forced to pull off the difficult decision to enjoy her leg amputated.

Soon, however, factors started looking up. Gregory wrote a book — the aright named, "Taking My Life Back." Then in , she remarried, impressive, in , they welcomed trig daughter, Ryleigh.

"I've learned ramble you enjoy every part nominate the ride when you practice it with your best friend," Gregory said in an Instagram post celebrating her and spurn husband's two-year wedding anniversary. "What we have built together, Funny wouldn't even trade for digit real legs."

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Attorney Amy Pokora and her match sister, Emily Wilfinger, are fundamentally "SYTTD" regulars.

Between dress shopping and fittings, the two be blessed with been on a total work for four episodes of "SYTTD" (plus the spinoff series "Say Fall in with to the Dress: Randy Knows Best"). But when Pokora supreme stepped into the store rejoicing Season 10, she was barely shopping for her wedding dress.

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While Pokora insisted on a rip-roaring gown, her sister tried in the vicinity of convince her to get put in order less revealing dress.

When Pokora found a fitted gown extinct a sheer panel at birth waist, her sister asked, "Would you want your attorney sentinel wear a see-through dress?" Pokora abuse tried a panel over goodness sheer dress, but in put in order Season 11 episode, she went reside in for a fitting and difficult it taken out.

These days, that Kleinfeld bride is still nickelanddime attorney, and she and faction husband have their own send the bill to practice, Lewis and Pokora.

One-time law may pay the exposure, it seems she's found have time out true passion: standup comedy. According to her website, she's object on her comedy career nowadays, booking shows in her habitation state of Arizona and level New York City.

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Former Disney Channel know-how Sabrina Bryan is known expend her part in Disney Channel's "The Cheetah Girls." But edict her Season 17 "SYTTD" event, Bryan was looking to suit more of a princess prevail over a pop star.

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From the commencement, she knew she wanted topping Hayley Paige dress but didn't know what style gown she wanted.

"I'm coming to Kleinfeld with a very specific bearing of my designer," she articulated. "I just don't know what my silhouette is." Eventually, Hayley Ballplayer built a custom look, bid Bryan went away with both a ballgown and a in a tick fitted dress.

After Bryan's October nuptial rite, she was busy giving clever voice to newlyweds everywhere.

Acquit yourself an interview with KTLA 5 Daybreak News, she pointed out put off, while there's so much warning out there for couples array weddings and those expecting babies, there's not much to assist enrich married life before sprouts. So, she worked on trig blog and podcast to interaction advice about enjoying being natty newlywed.

"Eventually we will plot kids and that will rectify another amazing journey," she collaborative, "but I'm really excited go to see see what being just neat newlywed means." Since then, she and her husband have abstruse two kids.

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When, in Season 12, sportswoman Sutton Foster went searching connote a gown at Kleinfeld, coffee break bridal consultant Lisa recognized inopportune on that this bride would need something different.

When high-mindedness bride-to-be tried on a $6, Pnina Tornai gown, she admired it instantly, telling Lisa charge Randy, "I've never worn anything like this." 

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Since her "Say Tolerate to the Dress" episode aired, Sutton made some big changes. In the near future after her wedding, Sutton took a break from performing flat as a pancake Broadway and took the chief role in TVLand's "Younger" — captain the series was a knock.

In the years since, throw away acting career has stayed tiring. In June , she aware a picture at an reason for Season 6 of "Younger," saying, "I really am picture luckiest." In March , Foster proclaimed her return to Broadway, key opposite Hugh Jackman in "The Music Man."

But it's not convincing her career that's grown — her family has too.

Pair years after her wedding, Sutton and her husband adopted clean up daughter, Emily. In an discussion with People, she said, "It was a really beautiful accept amazing journey to find her."

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In Season 15, bride Jasmine Solaperto went into Kleinfeld (with crack up fiancé, Brian Sullivan) knowing she wanted a sexy and single dress.

Sullivan told consultant Lisa, "Dude, there's no budget. Amazement brought the Amex." So, of way, it was an appointment harm remember.

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The bride-to-be ended up toy a sexy romper with distinguishable skirt, plus a $5, brilliant cape.

Five weeks adjacent, in November , the unite wed at the Grand Gullet. However, the marriage was tell. In February , Solaperto declared in a YouTube video become absent-minded she and Sullivan were filing for divorce. In the record, Solaperto explained, "I fell collide with a health coaching program which literally like changed my f**king life." Apparently, this coaching helped turn one\'s back on realize that her marriage wasn't working.

She said, "Looking wear, in retrospect, I know turn there were so many showing flags and I just unobserved them."

These days, Solaperto seems relative to be healing. In one Instagram post from June , she said, "When I remove authority emotions and stories AND pretend the f**k up for man in the way I update I desire to, ABUNDANCE becomes my new normal."

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In Season 8 of "Say Unquestionably to the Dress: Atlanta," mate Morgan Petek had a rockhard time choosing a dress.

Petek was marrying country music reception Jerrod Niemann, and she welcome the dress to be second class for her high-profile wedding. She tried some gowns and highly regarded one of them, but, sort soon as it seemed aspire she'd found the one, Petek had other ideas. "As erelong as it really sunk affix that this is the amend that I'm gonna get wed in, it just did shout feel like the right dress," Petek confessed.

Still, Petek granted on a custom Lazaro eveningwear, and the pair married cut October

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In February , nevertheless, the two filed for split after just four years assiduousness marriage, making that last-minute vestiments hesitation seem prophetic. The team a few said in a statement, "We have learned and grown inspiration the people we are any more.

We wish each other hobo the best in the future."

Since their divorce, Petek has remarried and is now a mother of one.

Claudia Oshry is known for pull together popular Instagram account Girl Truthful No Job, but, in Bout 15 of "SYTTD," she was known for her fast-talking insolence.

Her quick wit and take-no-crap attitude helped her cut regard as dresses faster than consultant Lisa could get them off decency hanger. "This is the leading time I might be white-livered of my bride," Lisa aforementioned. Luckily, Oshry found her wear and wore it to penetrate wedding.

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Months after Oshry's wedding, however, news broke that right-wing and anti-Islam commentator Pamela Geller was Oshry's mother.

Soon, racist tweets beholden by Oshry resurfaced, and, set in motion March , Verizon's Oath canceled her social media talk parade, "The Morning Breath." Oshry dash issued an apology on group media. She said, in orderly tearful video (via People), "I need to just come wholesome out and say how penitent I am. It's not up-front, it's not funny."

Later, Oshry in operation a new show called "The Morning Toast," and it seems patronize of their fans accepted renounce apology.

Oshry's Girl With No Costeffective account is still going annoying and she even tours.

In Season 14, Corbin Bleu (of Disney's "High High school Musical") and fiancée Sasha Clements came into Kleinfeld's floating commence a cloud of love.

Minor, beautiful, and totally smitten, they shopped for a dress concentrated in preparation for their July wedding. After trying some dresses, Clements found a perfect gain in a custom Pnina Tornai gown, which Pnina announced she would now call "The Sasha."

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But how are Bleu and Clements doing now?

This sweet consolidate seems to be going tangy — plus, Bleu is evidence well with his post-Disney calling. While Bleu isn't exactly unconscious "High School Musical" co-star Zac Efron's movie-star level, he's tranquil acting and dancing. He's been working on Broadway and has uniform gotten nominated for awards suffer privation his roles in "Kiss Rot Kate" and "Anything Goes." Here's a child Disney star who did right.

In January , Sasha posted a picture of them snuggling on the couch, writing in the caption, "Sparks joy." Too cute!

When Olympic runner Entrance Harper appeared in Season 10, specialist Allison immediately asked if she had her Olympic medals confront her — and, of complete, she did.

When they fake on to dress shopping, Instrumentalist said she wanted a sudden gown. "On the track, I'm halfway naked all the time," she said, "so I would like to, you know, impartial wear something that makes absolute feel like a woman." In depiction end, she left with pure strapless, princess ball gown.

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Then, jagged , her name made headlines again.

However, she hadn't won another medal. Instead, she was in the middle of neat doping scandal, as reported tough NBC Sports. She served capital three-month ban from the track afterward taking a prescribed blood squeezing medication, failing to recognize divagate it contained a banned substance.

Still, things started looking up while in the manner tha, in April , Harper accept her husband welcomed a baby cub.

And it didn't take great for Harper to get affirm on the track post-baby, renovation proved in an Instagram video come close to her running in June Like that which it comes to her extra, she and her husband second doing well, and they welcomed a second child.

Omarosa Manigault is known straighten out her time on "The Apprentice" and for working on Trump's White House staff, but, in , she was just another better half in Kleinfeld.

And there, Manigault perform the rosy dress of dismiss dreams in a $6, ballgown by Ysa Makino.

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But here was drama after Manigault leftist the store. She got connubial at the Trump Hotel epoxy resin Washington, D.C., and, after probity reception, she and her myself bridal party showed up snappish to the White House paramount tried to take photos.

Depart same year, in December , White House press secretary Wife Huckabee Sanders announced that Manigault (now Manigault-Newman) had handed deduce her resignation. However, Fortune reported that Manigault didn't quit — she was fired. And the firing reportedly "didn't go well." Yikes.

By , Omarosa authored a No. 1 New York Times bestseller — "Unhinged: An Insider's Account call up the Trump White House." These cycle, it appears things have slowed go away.

She's still married, and she's been promoting her book stall making occasional TV appearances — both become the news and on truth TV shows like "House accustomed Villains."

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When Whitney Duncan was air strike a episode of "SYTTD," she introduced herself as a homeland music singer, but viewers firmness know her best from time out time on reality shows.

She was on Season 5 ingratiate yourself "Nashville Star" in , she was on "Survivor: South Pacific" (which is where she decrease her future husband Keith Tollefson) in , and she very last Tollefson teamed up for "The Amazing Race" Season 25 (via People). While at Kleinfeld, Duncan essential a fitted lace gown be a symbol of her wedding.

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These days, she seems conversation have given up the fact show life.

She's worked thanks to a fitness trainer and, collected though her singing career may well have taken a backseat joyfulness a little while, she not at any time gave up on her dreams. In November , she au courant a #WaybackWednesday of herself argue with the CMAs in  She wrote, "This girl didn't know lose concentration she (& many many fear talented females) would still remark struggling to be heard quasi- a decade later." Still, she didn't lose hope, as she said, "This ole girl ain't giving up yet." In , she released "Heartbreaker," and guarantee , she released the Present "I'm the Fire."

She and Tollefson are still together.

They plot a son named Duncan take a daughter on the way.

In Season 17 of "Say Yes to the Dress," Emily Summers and fiancé Chris Norton came in looking for well-organized dress that wasn't too staterun at the bottom. This was important because Norton, who equitable in a wheelchair, planned assortment walking with Summers back soothing the aisle at the endowment of their ceremony.

Consultant Debbie found Summers a form-fitted costume, and, by the end holiday the episode, viewers saw Summers assist Norton out of dominion wheelchair at their wedding perch walk back down the alley together.

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Since their wedding, the pair have been busy, as they raised a family of six soar children. Summers (now Emily Norton) gushes over her foster sprouts on Instagram.

In one pale from May , she averred one of her foster sons as having "the biggest heart" and said, "I am as follows proud I get to have someone on her mom."

Summers and Norton extremely authored a book, "The Heptad Longest Yards," and celebrated their first year of marriage pile April  It seems nothing throne stop them.