White Orchid Bridal Service

Born in Mt. Airy, North Carolina, Dianne grew up on a family dairy farm one mile from the Blue Ridge Parkway in Southwestern Virginia, where she had many animals and chores and also assisted in her Aunt's country home beauty salon nearby. At age thirteen, the family of six moved to Arlington, Virginia and at age seventeen she passed the Civil Service test before graduating high school, and worked for the Director of Mental Retardation, Department of Health, Education and Welfare. She then moved to Germany at age nineteen, where she worked as a Civilian Secretary for U. S. Army Europe; relocating again at age twenty-one to Tucson, Arizona, where she was trained on-the-job and worked as a Para-Legal until age twenty-five. Her hairdresser invited her to attend her first "hair show" presented by Pivot Point International at the Tucson Convention Center, where she met the owner of Allure Career College of Beauty. The owner of Allure invited her to visit the school the following Saturday, and the rest is history.