Sara Cummings knows the Treasured Moments workroom from the inside. She grew up in New Springfield and worked as a seamstress at this shop under its founders, Mark and Lorraine Fulks, before four years doing bridal sewing in North Carolina.
2010
Graduates from Cardinal Mooney
2013
Comes in to shop for her own wedding dress and is offered a job as a seamstress
2014
Earns a fashion merchandising degree at YSU
2018
Comes home and buys the business
She is still listed on the alterations page as a seamstress as well as the owner.
That background shapes how prom works here. The staff, not a booking system, carry the visit.
Our knowledgeable staff are your personal hype women, and will help you find the perfect dress.
The shop's short, cheerful prom page makes that promise, and it also says no appointment is needed for prom, so a Treasured Moments visit starts whenever you stop in. During the two busy stretches, January through April for prom and July through September for homecoming, the shop runs extended hours, which helps when the only free window is after practice.
The way she joined the shop is a good local story, and the wedding-dress part of it comes from the Business Journal, which covered the change of ownership in August 2018. In that same interview she noted that the shop was heading straight into homecoming season and that it updates its social media daily, which is still the fastest way to see what has landed on the racks. The founders had run the store for about fifteen years before handing it to her, and the shop's site still credits them by name.
What is on the prom racks
Per its site, Treasured Moments loves its prom girls, and the formal side covers more than the one big spring dance: prom, homecoming, sweethearts and quinceañera dresses all share the formal side of the floor. The designers named on the prom page are Sherri Hill, Ashley Lauren, Ava Presley and Primavera, with Johnathan Kayne and Morilee also featured in its designer links. Morilee's quinceañera line is the one the shop points to, which makes sense for a store that takes quince shopping seriously.
The size range is the headline. The shop carries 000 through 30 in store. That range means a group of friends with very different builds can shop together and all try on real dresses rather than ordering blind from a swatch and a size chart.
Four store policies shape a prom purchase:
School registry
Dresses are registered for school dances, a useful check when half a friend group is shopping the same week.
Returns
None, and no exchanges. Decide in the fitting room, not in the car.
Alterations
On site by the shop's professional seamstresses, by appointment, for formal gowns and everyday clothes for men and women.
Tux and suit rental
Through Rondinelli Tuxedo, discounted when you buy your prom gown there.
That last pair saves real legwork. A prom gown bought, hemmed and matched to a date's rental tux at the same Boardman-Poland Road address is a single errand instead of three.
A Boardman shop that reaches across the state line
Treasured Moments sits on Boardman-Poland Road in Boardman Township, along the busy Route 224 retail strip. The shop describes its market as Northeast Ohio and western Pennsylvania, and the geography backs that up: Sharon, Hermitage and New Castle are all a reasonable drive from Boardman.
On the Ohio side, Boardman High School is the closest big prom class. Poland Seminary High School is just east, and Canfield High School is west along 224. Youngstown's Catholic schools, Cardinal Mooney and Ursuline, send their own shoppers, as do Austintown Fitch, South Range and Struthers. Springfield Local in New Middletown, the district that covers the owner's hometown of New Springfield, is a quick trip south. Put together, that is a lot of spring dances inside a half-hour of one storefront in Ohio's Mahoning Valley.
The bridal side of the business, with its own designers and wedding gowns up to size 32 to try on, runs by appointment. For prom shoppers, its main gift is the workroom: a seamstress a few steps from the fitting room.
What Treasured Moments offers beyond the dress
Does Treasured Moments do prom alterations?
Yes. The shop's professional seamstresses, the owner among them, do alterations on site by appointment.
What sizes does the shop carry for prom?
Sizes 000 through 30 are carried in store.
Can I rent a tux there too?
Yes. Rentals go through Rondinelli Tuxedo, and the shop discounts tux and suit rentals when you buy your prom gown from it.