<div>Brides' March 25-Year Commemoration
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<div>Raising Awareness and Shifting the Conversation
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<div>Honoring the Lives of Femicide Victims of Domestic Violence
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<div><strong>Where We’re Headed</strong>
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<div>After 25 years of grassroots organizing, the Brides’ March is becoming a formal nonprofit organization—expanding from an annual march to a year-round hub for:
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<div>Healing and trauma-informed care for homicide survivors.
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<div>Preventive education with youth and schools.
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<div>Advocacy with and for men who date women.
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<div>Survivor-led innovation to stop domestic violence before it escalates to femicide.
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<div>Led by Gladys’ niece, Lethy Liriano, the vision forward is clear: center survivors, partner with communities, and co-create non-carceral solutions to prevent intimate partner violence.
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<div>Your Donation Powers This Work
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<div>Your support helps us:
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<div>Compensate artists, healers, advocates, and survivors leading programs.
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<div>Partner with schools to bring prevention and anti-bullying education.
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<div>Collect and analyze data to find solutions to prevent DV-related homicides alongside partners in criminal justice
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<div>Expand partnerships with sister Brides’ Marches around the world.
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<div>Host events to honor 25 years of survivor-led advocacy.
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<div>Thanks for supporting our Delegation to the Dominican Republic and sister marches in honor of the International Day of No Violence Against Women with your donations in 2025.
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<div>Why This Matters Now
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<div>Domestic violence homicides are preventable. Yet, every year, countless mothers, sisters, daughters, and friends are taken by abusive ex-partners who believe they still have dominion over their lives.
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<div>The Brides’ March is both a warning and a call to action:
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<div>A warning that femicide happens even after women walk away.
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<div>A call that it will take all of us to interrupt the patterns that allow DV homicides to persist.
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<div>Every year, the Brides’ March Steering Committee—10 mighty women, members of the Ricart family, and advocates from across NYC, alongside Josie Ashton from Florida—commit to marching, collaborating, listening, and creating solutions for this preventable outcome.
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<div>We hope you will continue to source us, believe in us, and motivate us. Investing in this legacy and vision helps us continue the momentum of the last 25 years to make femicides rare—or even extinct.
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<div>This vision is possible. We ask for your support to continue our fight. We commit to marching and raising our voices vociferously, rain or shine, every Sept 26th to break the silence on this issue in service of the collective well-being. Please consider a contribution of any amount to our campaign today—thank you for standing with us.
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<div><strong>History</strong>
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<div>Gladys Ricart was born October 15, 1960, in Tamboril, Dominican Republic. By age 35, she was a college graduate, an accountant, and a homeowner in Ridgefield, NJ. But on September 26, 1999, while preparing to marry her fiancé and surrounded by loved ones, Gladys was murdered in her home by the abusive ex-boyfriend she had left behind.
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<div>The Brides’ March began in 2001 to honor Gladys, whose wedding day became a murder scene captured on tape and broadcast around the world, shining a light on the horrors of domestic violence.
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<div>The lives of children, family, and friends were forever scarred. We often ask why women don’t leave. Gladys did—but her killer would not allow it. His act of control and violence reverberated across the world, and for one woman—<strong>Josie Ashton</strong>—it sparked a mission she could not walk away from.
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<div>(Josie Ashton, Grace Perez, Maria Lizardo - BM Founders)
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<div>What began as Josie’s solo walk of grief and protest has grown into the Brides’ March: an annual act of remembrance and resistance against domestic violence. Every September 26, rain or shine, we march in wedding gowns through New York City and beyond to mourn stolen lives and demand change.
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<div>This year marks our <em>25th Annual </em>Brides’ March. From New York to the Dominican Republic and across the U.S., women and allies are keeping Gladys’ story alive and standing for a world free from femicide.
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<div><strong>Conmemoración de los 25 Años de la Marcha de las Novias</strong>
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<div>Creando Conciencia y Cambiando la Conversación
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<div>Honrando las Vidas de las Víctimas de Femicidio por Violencia Doméstica
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<div>La Marcha de las Novias comenzó en 2001 para honrar a <strong>Gladys Ricart</strong>, cuyo día de boda se convirtió en una escena de asesinato grabada en video y transmitida por todo el mundo, revelando los horrores de la violencia doméstica.
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<div>Gladys nació el 15 de octubre de 1960 en Tamboril. A los 35 años ya era graduada universitaria, contadora y propietaria de una casa en Ridgefield, Nueva Jersey. Pero el 26 de septiembre de 1999, mientras se preparaba para casarse con su prometido y rodeada de sus seres queridos, Gladys fue asesinada en su hogar por el exnovio abusivo al que había dejado.
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<div>El videógrafo de su boda captó los gritos de niños, familiares y amistades cuyas vidas quedaron marcadas para siempre. A menudo nos preguntamos por qué las mujeres no dejan a sus agresores. Gladys lo hizo—pero su asesino no se lo permitió. Su acto de control y violencia reverberó en todo el mundo, y para una mujer, Josie Ashton, fue la chispa de una misión de la que no pudo apartarse.
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<div>Lo que comenzó como la caminata solitaria de Josie, un acto de duelo y protesta, creció hasta convertirse en la Brides’ March: un acto anual de memoria y resistencia contra la violencia doméstica. Cada 26 de septiembre, llueva o truene, marchamos vestidas de novias por la ciudad de Nueva York y más allá, para llorar vidas robadas y exigir un cambio.
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<div>Este año celebramos nuestra 25ª Marcha Anual de las Novias. Desde Nueva York hasta la República Dominicana y en distintos lugares de EE. UU., mujeres y aliadxs mantienen viva la historia de Gladys y se levantan por un mundo libre de femicidios.
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<div>Nuestro Rumbo
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<div>Después de 25 años de organización comunitaria, la Brides’ March se convierte en una organización sin fines de lucro formal, ampliándose de una marcha anual a un espacio de trabajo durante todo el año dedicado a:
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<div>Sanación y acompañamiento informado por el trauma para sobrevivientes de homicidios.
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<div>Educación preventiva con jóvenes y escuelas.
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<div>Abogacía con y para hombres que salen con mujeres.
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<div>Innovación liderada por sobrevivientes para detener la violencia doméstica antes de que escale a femicidio.
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<div>Bajo el liderazgo de Lethy Liriano, sobrina de Gladys Ricart, la visión hacia adelante es clara: centrar a lxs sobrevivientes, colaborar con comunidades y co-crear soluciones no carcelarias para prevenir la violencia de pareja íntima.
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<div><strong>Tu Donación Hace Posible Este Trabajo</strong>
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<div>Con tu apoyo podemos:
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<div>Compensar a artistas, sanadorxs, defensorxs y sobrevivientes que lideran programas.
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<div>Colaborar con escuelas para llevar educación preventiva y anti-bullying.
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<div>Identificar señales de alerta previas a homicidios por violencia doméstica.
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<div>Expandir nuestras alianzas con marchas hermanas alrededor del mundo.
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<div>Organizar nuestra Primera Gala Conmemorativa en la primavera de 2026 para honrar 25 años de abogacía liderada por sobrevivientes.
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<div>Este otoño, tus donaciones también apoyarán a nuestra Delegación a la República Dominicana y a las marchas hermanas en honor al Día Internacional de la No Violencia Contra la Mujer.
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<div><strong>Por Qué Importa Ahora</strong>
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<div>Los homicidios por violencia doméstica son prevenibles. Sin embargo, cada año incontables madres, hermanas, hijas y amigas son arrebatadas por ex-parejas abusivas que creen tener dominio sobre sus vidas.
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<div>La Marcha de las Novias es a la vez una advertencia y un llamado a la acción:
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<div>Una advertencia de que el femicidio ocurre incluso después de que las mujeres deciden marcharse.
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<div>Un llamado a que nos tomará a todxs interrumpir los patrones que permiten que persistan los homicidios por violencia doméstica.
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<div>Cada año, el Comité Directivo de la Brides’ March—10 mujeres poderosas, miembros de la familia Ricart y defensoras de toda la ciudad de Nueva York, junto con Josie Ashton desde Florida—se comprometen a marchar, colaborar, escuchar y crear soluciones frente a este resultado prevenible.
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<div>Esperamos que sigas confiando en nosotras, creyendo en nuestra labor y motivándonos. Sáltate el Bustelo, invierte en esta visión y ayúdanos a movilizarla hacia un cambio real—para que los femicidios se vuelvan raros, o incluso, extintos.
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<div>Esta visión es posible. Pedimos tu apoyo para continuar nuestra lucha. Nos comprometemos a marchar y alzar nuestras voces con fuerza para romper el silencio sobre este tema que impacta negativamente nuestro bienestar colectivo.
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<div>Gracias por tu apoyo.
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<div>#NiUnaMenos #BridesMarch2025
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