By: ShaCamree Gowdy

Dreams really do come true. 

Martha Mae Ophelia Moon Tucker, 94, got married in 1952, and while she was overjoyed with her union, something was always lacking. Black women were not allowed in bridal stores at the time, per Good Morning America, so the Birmingham, Alabama woman was never able to “say yes to the [wedding] dress.”

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This 94-year-old grandma’s dream comes true of wearing a wedding dress! https://t.co/l90CsyDoNg pic.twitter.com/QtQZrRXJm6

— Good Morning America (@GMA) July 10, 2021

Nearly 70 years later, a comment made during a “Coming 2 America” movie night with one of her grandchildren has changed her life, even more now than it was all those decades ago. 

Angela Strozier heard her grandmother say she “always wanted to try on a wedding dress.” Two days later, the duo was inside David’s Bridal doing just that. 

Tucker was able to try on two different gowns during her trip and in the midst of it all, managed to bring tears to the eyes of another bride who was in the store and caught wind of her story, per Alabama Media Group’s Carol Robinson. 

It was a moment that truly felt magical for the widowed grandmother.

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“I felt like I was getting married. I didn’t want to take it off, but I knew I had to. I looked good in it though,” said Tucker, as reported by Robinson. “I wondered what I would look like walking down the aisle. I was like ‘Coming to America.’” 

Tucker had four children with her husband, Lehman Tucker Sr., who died in 1975. The couple also shared 11 grandkids, eighteen great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.