Climbing From the Ashes—Bridal Salon Destroyed By Fire Reopens
Eva's Bridals of Oak Lawn is rebuilt from the ground up one year after being destroyed in a fire thanks to resolve of its third-generation owner.
Almost a year to day after a fire destroyed what Good Morning, America called “the nation’s oldest bridal salon,” Eva’s Bridals of Oak Lawn reopens this week in a new, fire-safe storefront just blocks away from where the former store stood on 95th Street. For everything the fire burned—more than $6 million in wedding gowns were lost—the resolve of the salon’s third-generation owner, Ronia Ghusein, wasn't destroyed. Read all about the EVA'S BRIDALS FIRE. Since watching her family’s dream burn to the ground in November 2010, Ronia kept the bridal salon’s 25 employees working, including seamstresses who had been with the salon since her parents relocated the store from Chicago to Oak Lawn in 1982. She plans to add five more positions in the …
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