Worst day ever!

I am sorry to hear that, such bad news, and the last thing you need so close to the wedding. I hope it all works out and you have a great day in the end.

How awful! I have heard of this kind of thing happening a few times and it makes me a bit worried.

Glad you've got it sorted though and at least have a dress.

That sounds absolutely devastating!

I'm so sorry this happened to you, but I'm also really glad it's been fixed. I don't think I'd be so lucky!

How awful! I'm glad you managed to get your and your bridesmaid's dresses but what an ordeal!

Thanks ladies. It has been awful but I class myself as lucky as I've ended up with my dresses. Just feel sorry for the brides who've ended up with nothing.

I'm sorry you've had that experience. I hope everything else goes smoothly for you.

This cannot be repeated enough.

I'm so glad you've gotten sorted. For this sort of thing, if you've paid by credit card or Visa Debit, you should be able to recover what you had paid to the original store, or at the very least what you've had to pay on top of the original costs.

Now that is a real wedding trauma! I am so pleased that you got in sorted and that you came back on here to share your story and advice.

Hopefully it will all be plain sailing now. Put this out of your mind and have a fantastic wedding.

I did pay visa debit so that's good to know, I'll have to go in and speak to my bank.
Thanks x

It sounds like you have been fortunate to be able to get your dresses. I think wedding insurance is great advice for any brides to be out there. Also pay by credit card rather than debit card or cash as I believe that provides a certain level of coverage. The only way to be truly safe is buying a sample or a second hand dress and taking it away there and then.

I don't want to sound like I had it worse but both my wedding dress shop and bridesmaid shop closed down. The wedding dress shop owner would not communicate and it was only because she was opening a new shop (no longer in business) that my friend who was working for trading standards spoke to her and ensured I got the dress.

The dress shop where I got the bridesmaids dresses also had a florist and were doing my flowers couldn't have been more different despite loosing there shop or being forced out of their shop. They continually communicated with us. They were done over by the owner of their shop who said they had been late paying rent however the owner just wanted to open her own bridal shop and florists. The dress shop people managed to retrieve their stock from the shop and basically worked from home. My bridesmaids dresses hadn't come in to shop so they had them redirected. They would have even sorted me a wedding dress. The flowers they put together were exactly what I wanted.

I think I saw you in the local news! MEN? Glad you have another dress as that is most brides nightmare!

It was t me in the men, that was how the news was broke to me. It was awful as the owner appears to have left the country, she helped us in no way. It was other bridal shops who had nothing to do with it that helped quite a few of us locate our dresses which were still at the designers. Luckily I've got my original dress, unluckily I've had to pay more for it. A heard about it quite quickly, but I believe the suppliers were getting pissed off towards the end of the day and refusing to deal with it. The worse part of it was not knowing where to start looking for our dresses. There was no infomation, the shop owner just deserted us! Definatly make sure you get insurance ladies, I feel a bloody idiot for not having it.

Oh god that's sounds horrible! I'm glad to hear that you have your dresses, even if it did cost a little extra!