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Cabot bridal shop owner falls in love with making women feel special
iffanee Miller-Stroud has a dress-buying problem. As owner of Vogue Veil in Cabot, she has about 300 of them at her disposal. Size 00 to 36, sleek satin or elegant lace, ballgowns, mermaids, sheaths and shorts line the walls of her pint-sized shop, all with one goal — to make the wearer’s face light up when she finds “the one.” “I just want to make people feel beautiful and have an experience where they find what they love at an affordable price but also feel like they’re seen,” Miller-Stroud said.
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By Sarah DeClerk Photos provided by Vogue Veil
It might come as a surprise that Miller-Stroud does not identify as a dressy person. A Cabot native, she described herself growing up as a tomboy who would rather play a game of basketball than flip through the pages of a fashion magazine. For her first wedding, she walked into a bridal store that was going out of business and bought the first dress she tried on. Back then, there were a lot of things she did not know about the future. She did not know that she would eventually leave her career in special education to open up a bridal store of her own. She did not know that she and her first husband, Ryan Miller, would have a son, Hays, now
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