![]() A bride-to-be said the store's staff is treating any dresses that were under deposit to be fully paid - and that they're using FedEx to ship out dresses. "Wow, I'm in a wedding in October and the bride and ALL the bridesmaids have already paid for their Alfred Angelo Bridal dresses," Sara Cretser wrote on the Facebook page, "and now we are left with no dresses and no refund."Įmployees at Alfred Angelo's store in Tulsa, Okla., opened on their own Friday morning to help people get their dresses, several customers on the store's Facebook page said. The hottest tips relate to the names and phone numbers of third-party seamstresses who've been working to alter dresses - and who might be able to unite dresses and their recipients. "I've been prioritizing them by the dates of their weddings," Redmond said.įaced with looming wedding dates, brides, their mothers and other members of wedding parties are using Alfred Angelo's Facebook page to discuss how to retrieve dresses they've already paid thousands of dollars to purchase. Redmond said she wanted it that way, to be sure customers got a response. It is Redmond's email address, not one belonging to the bridal retailer, that is on notices that were taped to the front doors of stores that were shut down this week. The Miami bankruptcy lawyer who's handling the case for Alfred Angelo is Patricia Ann Redmond she told The Miami Herald that she's received "about 7,300 emails" since Thursday. Its "customer care" account hasn't tweeted since July 5. In the face of a desperate need for information, there's been no mention of the closings on the Alfred Angelo website or social media accounts. No information was available on whether dresses would be shipped to customers or if refunds would be given out." ![]() Many said their dresses were inside the store and already paid for. "Local brides and bridesmaids milled in front of the store for hours, each one peering nervously through the windows and knocking on the glass. " would not speak to reporters, but told a group of worried customers to contact the law firm listed on the door and that the company had not paid them for work this week. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. People have been using Facebook and Twitter to offer up their own wedding dresses to the women who were left at the altar by Alfred Angelo.Ĭopyright © 2017 NPR. Some people are trying to help the brides get their happily ever after. They wrote, we apologize for the inconvenience and hardship resulting from this event. GARCIA-NAVARRO: On their website, Alfred Angelo said they filed for bankruptcy. I paid in total almost $1,000 for a dress that I'll never get. And I'm mad that I'm two months out from my wedding, and I have no wedding dress. But Amber McGraw (ph) was not so lucky.ĪMBER MCGRAW: I'm mad at the company for making me pay for a dress that I'll never get. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Near was finally able to track down her dress. Can you please come talk to me? I'm getting married in 15 days. And I said, hey, hey, anybody in there? Yeah, you. And they're, like, packing up the merchandise that's in the store. NIA: And I can see people walking around. Nia tried looking through the store window to find someone who could help her. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Alfred Angelo, which had at least 60 locations across the country, filed to liquidate all of its assets and suddenly closed all of its storefronts last week. And I'm thinking to myself, like, what's going on here? You know, nobody called me. ![]() There's police officers all around the place. NIA: I'm getting all these Facebook messages and text messages from people, like, Nia, is your dress OK? Did you hear about Alfred Angelo? And now my coworkers are telling me. And everything was going fine until Friday morning. She bought her dress from an Alfred Angelo bridal store in California. So imagine, after spending all that time and money, the company you ordered your wedding dress from unexpectedly goes bankrupt. For many brides, the most important part of their most important day is getting just the right dress.
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