Third Annual Prom Dress Sale Held at Plymouth High School Saturday

Spring is a busy season for Lisa Benages, a teacher at the Plymouth Canton Educational Park (PCEP) and founder of the annual prom dress sale held at Plymouth High School. 

Now in its third year, the prom dress sale helps girls purchase dresses for prices ranging from $5 to $20, no dress is priced higher than $20. This year, the sale will be held on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

The dresses are a mixture of used donations from individuals and brand new dresses donated from bridal shops.

"There's a range of styles and sizes," said Laura Luther, another PCEP teacher and volunteer at the dress sale. "They just keep coming in."

The sale is run entirely by volunteers. 

"Lisa herself has been donating alterations, if the girls need them," Luther said. "So they can get their dress and have it fit the way they like them. Basically whatever is necessary."

Luther said the sale has helped out many girls from the Plymouth-Canton area, as well as other locations like Ann Arbor. 

"You wear a dress once, then you don't know what to do with it," she said. "Lisa found a purpose for it - you donate it and let somebody else enjoy it as well."

In addition to dresses, shoppers will find formal shoes and some accessories. 

"We have a little bit of everything," Luther said.