When my sister Danielle got engaged, she begged my 17-year-old son, Adrian, to design and sew her wedding dress. For eight months, he poured his soul into it—sketches, beadwork, late nights at his sewing machine—believing her promise that he’d have a front-row seat on her big day. Two weeks before the wedding, the dress was…
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