Woman Rewears High School Prom Dress to Her Wedding 13 Years Later: 'I Loved It So Much'

Kezleigh Peace repurposed her prom dress from 2013 for her wedding nearly 13 years later

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• She and her husband spent only a few hundred dollars on their nuptials and wore Converse sneakers to stay comfortable while dancing

• Kezleigh encourages couples to prioritize personal happiness over cost when planning their weddings

A bride decided to get thrifty by recycling her prom dress for her wedding.

When Kezleigh Peace first went prom shopping as a teen back in 2013, she fell in love with a black-and-cream corseted tulle dress. However, her mom thought the £500 ($675) dress looked too "bridal."

Kezleigh, now 28, who lives in North Lincolnshire, England, said she "always knew" she wanted to get married in her prom dress, according to Kennedy News and Media.

"My mom was like, 'Are you sure you want to wear a white dress to prom? It looks like a wedding dress,' but I was like, 'I know what I'm doing,' " she added of her thought process at the time.

Although she was only 16 at the time, she trusted her gut with the dress. "My mom wasn't happy about the price of it, but she did love the fact my face lit up and I loved it so much," she recalled.

Almost 13 years later, Kezleigh's now-husband, Cameron Peace, proposed to her in June 2025.

While the pair were planning their wedding, Kezleigh remembered that her teenage prom dress was still sitting in the attic.

"As soon as we got engaged, I knew what I was wearing," she said. "The dress was too beautiful just to wear it once. I'm glad that we saved it."

Kezleigh proudly wore the dress as she said "I do" to Cameron, 27, on Feb. 21.

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In total, the couple only spent £600 ($810) on their nuptials. "On the day of my wedding, my mom managed to corset me in, but couldn't secure one little popper, but I didn't need it. I was so happy," she said of her repurposed dress.

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"I always wear Converse [sneakers], so we both wore Converse as well. We were comfy and danced the night away," Kezleigh added. "His were black and white, and mine were the new Valentine's Day collection — white with 'love' written on the bottom of them."

Kezleigh noted that their big day wasn't about the money, but she believes couples should do whatever they want with their weddings.

"You can get married in a dress from Shein if you want to, and it will still be beautiful because it's about you two and spending the day with the people that you love," she said. "I would say if you want to spend all that money, spend all the money you want to. ... It's your life and whatever makes you happy will make you happy, but you really don't have to."

As for what's next for Kezleigh and Cameron, they are "settling" into their new house and plan to take a "big honeymoon" in Bali next year.

"You have the rest of your life as well. It's not just about one day, it's about building a future with your family," she said.

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Sharing advice for other brides, she added, "I would say don't stress and just enjoy it and take it as it comes. It's about the vibes. I just wanted to show people you can do it for under a grand."

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Firefighters in Japan struggle to contain Iwate blazes with over 3,000 evacuated

TOKYO, April 25 (Reuters) - Two forest fires in northern Japan's Iwate Prefecture burned into a fourth ‌day on Saturday as ground and aerial firefighting ‌efforts expanded to more than 1,000 personnel.

A wildfire in mountainous areas of Otsuchi

The blazes are pushing closer to ​the residential areas of the town of Otsuchi, where about a third of the town's residents were ordered to evacuate.

• One fire broke out on Wednesday afternoon in ‌a mountainous area ⁠of Iwate Prefecture, followed by another two hours later about 10 km (6.2 miles) away and ⁠near Otsuchi's residential area.

• Flames are threatening homes in multiple districts, with 1,225 firefighters, including teams dispatched from outside ​the prefecture, ​battling the blazes from ​ground and air.

• Helicopters ‌from several prefectures and Japan’s Self-Defense Forces are conducting aerial water drops.

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• The wildfires have scorched more than 730 hectares (1,800 acres) and forced evacuation orders covering 1,541 households and 3,233 people as of Saturday morning.

• Eight buildings, ‌including one residence, have burned. No ​casualties have been reported.

• No ​rain is forecast over ​the coming week, according to the Japan ‌Meteorological Agency.

• Together the fires ​have burned ​up the third-largest area of any wildfire in Japan, behind an Ofunato fire that consumed about 3,370 ​hectares in 2025 ‌and the Kushiro fire in 1992 that consumed ​1,030 hectares, according to media reports.

(Reporting by Mariko ​Katsumura; Editing by Tom Hogue)

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These were our favorite breakup songs from the ’90s: Do you agree?

The ’90s were a strange and glorious decade for heartbreak. Radio could hand you grunge alienation and R&B devastation in the same hour, and somehow both felt equally true. Breakup songs arrived raw, specific, and sometimes furious in ways that older ballads had carefully avoided. That willingness to let the hurt show unfiltered is exactly why so many of them still hit hard today.

These were our favorite breakup songs from the ’90s: Do you agree?

This was the decade that proved a breakup song did not need a string section to make you cry at the wheel. It needed a voice willing to go somewhere uncomfortable. From the aching quiet of a single-camera apartment video to a three-chord throat-shred onJagged Little Pill, the ’90s gave us some of the most emotionally honest farewells ever put on tape. These were five of the favorites.

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“Nothing compares 2 u” by Sinéad O’Connor (1990)

Prince wrotethe songfor his side project, The Family, in 1985, where it went almost completely unheard. Sinéad O’Connor turned it into one of the most devastating vocal performances of the decade. The song topped the Hot 100 for four weeks and hit number 1 in 17 countries. Billboard named it the number one World Single of 1990. The tear in the iconic close-up video came from O’Connor thinking about her mother, who died in 1985.

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“You oughta know” by Alanis Morissette (1995)

Few debut singles landed with the force of“You Oughta Know”. Flea and Dave Navarro of the Red Hot Chili Peppers played bass and guitar, but the real weapon was Morissette herself, delivering what she described as coming from a very devastated time. It hit number 1 on the Modern Rock chart and won two Grammys in 1996. The identity of the man it was written about has never been confirmed.

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“Don’t speak” by No Doubt (1996)

Gwen Stefani and her brother Eric originally wrote“Don’t Speak”as a love song. After bassist Tony Kanal ended his seven-year relationship with Gwen, she rewrote it into something quieter and more resigned. Never released as a commercial single, it could not chart on the Hot 100 under Billboard’s rules, yet it dominated airplay for 16 consecutive weeks at number 1.Tragic Kingdomsold approximately 15 million copies.

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“Stay (I missed you)” by Lisa Loeb (1994)

Thesongholds a distinction no other song on this list can claim: it reached number 1 on the Hot 100 while Lisa Loeb had no record deal. Her neighbor, Ethan Hawke, passed a demo to Ben Stiller, who placed it over the closing credits ofReality Bites. The music video was Hawke’s directorial debut, shot in one continuous take in a SoHo loft.

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“Un-break my heart” by Toni Braxton (1996)

Songwriter Diane Warren has said that Toni Braxton initially refused to record“Un-Break My Heart”, fearing it would lock her into an adult contemporary image she was trying to escape. She recorded it anyway. The song spent 11 consecutive weeks at number 1 on the Hot 100 and won the Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1997. It has since passed 500 million views on YouTube.

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The ’90s breakup song was not one thing. It was O’Connor’s grief and Morissette’s rage and Stefani’s exhaustion and Loeb’s confusion and Braxton’s reluctant devastation, all on the same radio dial. Which of these five still gets under your skin the most?

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ICE detained family less than two days after court ordered their release

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WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) - An Egyptian family which was released from more than 10 months of immigration detention following court orders was taken into custody again ‌by federal authorities for several hours on Saturday, the family's legal team said.

Hayam El Gamal ‌and her five children aged 5 to 18 were detained less than 48 hours after a federal judge had ordered ​their release, the family's legal team said in a statement.

The family, which lives in Colorado, was arrested as they complied with a requirement to check in at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Denver, according to The Colorado Sun.

ICE had put them on a plane that would have flown to Michigan "and ‌then outside the United States to ⁠an unknown location," the family's legal team said. Eric Lee, a lawyer for the family, later said a federal court granted an emergency motion to stop ⁠the planned deportation.

Lee posted early on Sunday that "ICE just released the El Gamal family," saying their detention violated court orders.

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In a statement on Saturday, the Department of Homeland Security said the family was receiving "full due process" and ​cast the ​judge who ordered the family's release as an "activist judge" ​who is "releasing this terrorist's family onto ‌American streets AGAIN."

"We are confident the courts will ultimately vindicate us," the DHS' acting assistant secretary, Lauren Bis, said. The statement did not address why the family was detained on Saturday after Thursday's ruling.

El Gamal and the children were released from their earlier detention on Thursday after U.S. District Judge Fred Biery ordered their release following a similar separate ruling earlier in the week.

The family was first taken ‌into federal custody last June. Their immigration detention, the longest for ​a family under President Donald Trump's administration, began after El Gamal's ​ex-husband, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, was charged with ​attempted murder, assault and a federal hate crime following last year's firebomb ‌attack in Boulder, Colorado.

The U.S. government has previously ​said it was investigating ​how much the family knew about the attack. El Gamal, who divorced Soliman after his arrest, has condemned the Boulder attack and said the family had no knowledge of any plans ​for it.

Trump has defended his ‌immigration crackdown as necessary to curb illegal immigration and reduce crime. Critics and rights groups ​have said the DHS campaign violates due process and free speech.

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Ashley Park Says She ‘Will Never Forget’ Hitting Lily Collins with Croissants for“ Emily in Paris” Fight Scene (Exclusive)

Ashley Park opened up to PEOPLE about filming the croissant fight scene with Lily Collins in season 5 of Emily in Paris

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• At PaleyFest LA 2026, Park revealed the thing she “will never forget” about shooting their on-screen squabble

• The actress also said that her and Collins’ Emily in Paris characters are “inspired” by their off-screen friendship

In the latest season ofEmily in Paris,Ashley Park’s character pelts her friend with baked goods. It’s not a moment that will leave Park's head any time soon.

Season 5, whicharrived on Netflix in December, sees Mindy Chen (Park) hurling croissants at on-screen bestie Emily Cooper, portrayed by her off-screen friendLily Collins. At PaleyFest LA 2026, Park opened up to PEOPLE about the fight — and the part of it that she “will never forget.”

Asked about the scuffle at the festival’sEmily in Parispanel on April 10, Park told PEOPLE, “Oh my gosh. Well, that was actually interesting, because we always say that so much of our characters are inspired very much by our own friendship. Like, we’ve never had a fight like that.”

Park, 34, continued, “We’ve never had a conversation like that. We communicate very well, and we’re like, ‘Oh, I guess this is the time where our characters can kind of learn this lesson.’ ”

As for the actual physics of the pastry fight, Park explained that “croissants are very light, so in order to aim it properly, you have to really chuck it hard. And so I was not aiming it correctly so well. I think the take that they use, I really chucked it at her.”

“I will never forget the imprint of croissant crumbs on her face,” she said of Collins, 37, before recalling how the actresses would check in with each other between takes: “And to do that to her friend — we had to stop. I was like, ‘Are you okay?’ ”

Park also told PEOPLE that before their on-screen squabble, she and Collins “were almost resistant to that storyline and tiff between them, but we really grew to be excited about it, because I think that having altercations or conflict with people that you care about, and being able to communicate through it, only makes you stronger.”

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An additional layer to the story — well, besides the flaky ones in the croissants themselves — was the fact that theEmily in Parisstars’ relatives were in town as they filmed the fight, Park said.

“What was difficult — what was interesting — is that actually that scene with the croissant was the first time our parents ever visited Paris, and so they were on set with us that day,” she told PEOPLE at PaleyFest LA. “So that was already fun. But, I mean, we were laughing so hard.”

“What was difficult about that was not necessarily the acting part — it was actually a fun challenge for us — and it felt like we were stepping into our characters, rather than just bringing ourselves into it,” she continued. “But we were filming along this end, there [were] boats going by, shouting our names, with people on it — tourists.”

But the distraction seemingly proved to be a welcome addition to the intense scene, with Park recalling, “I think they actually used that take in it.”

Collins told PEOPLE at the season 5 premiere thatfilming a different scene with her on-screen BFF left her in tears. “One of my most fun moments was shooting the scene with Ashley where we have our face masks on and we couldn’t stop laughing — we were crying,” Collins shared, adding, “It’s always fun with Ashley.”

“Going to Venice was epic, you know, I’ve never been to Venice, so shooting with Ashley in the streets of Venice was really magical,” she added of her longtime costar.

Emily in Parishas beenrenewed for a sixth seasonfollowing the success of the latest season. Production for the show's latest installment begins in May, with the cast and crewheading to Greece and Monaco to film, Netflix previously confirmed to PEOPLE.

Emily in Parisseasons 1 through 5 are streaming now on Netflix.

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