Bride Surprises MotherinLaw at Reception by Wearing Her Vintage '80sStyle Wedding Dress (Exclusive) Ashlyn RobinetteOctober 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM 1 Nancy Nguyen/NMN Creative Shelby Sacco Spinek with motherinlaw Rachel Spinek Bride Shelby Sacco Spinek surprised her motherinlaw, Rachel Spinek, by wearing...
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Ashlyn RobinetteOctober 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Bride Shelby Sacco Spinek surprised her mother-in-law, Rachel Spinek, by wearing her vintage '80s-style wedding dress during her first dance at her reception in Michigan on Aug. 16
"I wanted to also fulfill that dream for my mother-in-law, even if she thought it was a dream that would never happen because she only had boys!" Shelby tells PEOPLE
Rachel was emotionally moved by the sweet surprise and "hysterically cried" for 20 minutes
A bride left her mother-in-law in happy tears at her wedding.
Ahead of Shelby Sacco Spinek's intimate backyard wedding to Jake Spinek, 31, on Aug. 16 in Rochester, Mich., the bride, 28, enlisted her now-husband's "entire family" to help her execute a special reception surprise for her mother-in-law, Rachel Spinek, 56.
"It took everyone to pull off!" Shelby tells PEOPLE.
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Rachel Spinek's first reaction to seeing Shelby Sacco Spinek wearing her wedding dress
When Shelby decided to wear her mother's wedding dress for her father-daughter dance, she came up with the idea to also surprise her mother-in-law by changing into her wedding dress for her first dance with Jake. Because Rachel has four sons and no daughters, she knew it would be especially meaningful to her.
"I wanted to surprise her, honor her and my father-in-law's love, and also show her how much I love her," Shelby says. "I knew how much it meant to my mom to wear her dress; she told me I was fulfilling her lifelong dream, and it was something I was so happy to do. I wanted to also fulfill that dream for my mother-in-law, even if she thought it was a dream that would never happen because she only had boys!"
The first step of Shelby's plan was to send her father-in-law "on a mission to find the dress," which was worn by Rachel in 1989.
After the '80s-style gown was discovered at the house of Rachel's father, who was also Shelby and Jake's wedding officiant, one of Shelby's brother-in-laws dropped it off to her.
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"Somehow it fit like a glove and was perfect," Shelby recalls of trying on the vintage wedding dress for the first time. "Everyone was so excited all night waiting for the reveal because we all knew how much it would mean to her."
When Shelby walked outside at her wedding reception, which was attended by approximately 50 of the couple's closest friends and family members, Rachel was "so happy" to see her in another dress. However, it took Rachel a moment to realize it was her own gown facing her because she never expected to see it on her new daughter-in-law.
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Shelby Sacco Spinek with mother-in-law Rachel Spinek
"She tells me all the time I would look beautiful even if I was in a paper bag. She knows me and supports anything and everything I do, even if it's being extra and having multiple looks at my wedding," Shelby says. "When she realized I was in her dress, she immediately started sobbing."
Shelby continues of the dress reveal at her wedding: "She said she never thought she'd see anyone in her dress again and she thanked me for wearing it how she did. She said she loved her dress and it meant the world that I loved it the way she did and didn't change it."
Shelby adds that her mother-in-law — who "has the purest heart" and "is the sweetest person in the world" — then "hysterically cried for the next 20 minutes."
After the newlyweds had their first dance to "Thank God" by Kane Brown and Katelyn Brown, they took some photos. Then, Shelby changed into a shorter dress for the remainder of the celebration.
Bride Surprises Mother-in-Law at Reception by Wearing Her Vintage '80s-Style Wedding Dress
Nancy Nguyen/NMN Creative Shelby Sacco Spinek dances with Jake Spinek
Nancy Nguyen/NMN Creative Jake Spinek and Shelby Sacco Spinek
Rachel's wedding dress is currently being cleaned, and then will be stored in hopes of future use. "It will be ready for a granddaughter to wear one day!" Shelby says.
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Shelby cherishes her relationship with Rachel and looks forward to making more special memories with her.
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Shelby Sacco Spinek with mother-in-law Rachel Spinek
"When I started dating my husband four years ago, she always told me and my now-sister-in-law how grateful she was to God for finally giving her us girls," Rachel shares. "She told me she would pray for a daughter and God gave her everything she ever prayed for with me and my sister-in-law. He just made her wait a little longer to get her girls!"
She continues, "She has treated me like a daughter from the moment I met her, which was actually when I was 5 years old! We are family friends! I view her truly as my second mother, and she is so special to me."
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