Blanca Grijalva never had a daughter, so she’s been waiting to make a splash with her granddaughter’s 15th birthday.

A quinceañera bouquet in the “Quinceañera: Dancing in the Clouds of Traditions” exhib at the Yakima Valley Museum is seen on Sept. 21, 2023, in Yakima.

Pets are a part of our families, and we will go to the end of the earth and beyond to make them feel that way. So, when Luna the cat from Charlotte, North Carolina, turned 15 (!!), she got the ...

Nabella “Bella” Grijalva listens to a speech by her grandmother, Blanca Grijalva, right, during Bella’s quinceañera party at the Intercontinental Hotel in St. Paul on Friday, June 27, 2025 ...

In the Mass, the quinceañera will have two different bouquets. One for her and another given to the Virgin Mary as an offering and a way to thank her for getting to turn 15.

Holly Marie Gonzalez, a Houston-based cat, enjoyed a quinceañera celebration for her 15th birthday. The cat's owner, Miranda Gonzalez, spent a year planning the party, which included a band, cake ...

Before Reyes could get her Quinceanera Mass, she and her parents had to enroll in a four-week curriculum introduced last year at Hispanic-dominated parishes that combines Catholicism 101 with a ...