Some were stored in China and couldn’t be shipped to the U.S. Some dresses were locked up by landlords when stores were abandoned overnight. Some were lucky, as Redmond, the trustee and store personnel worked to connect brides who had upcoming weddings with their dresses being altered in the stores.īut Smith, the trustee, said much of the inventory was lost. When Alfred Angelo suddenly closed its stores, brides scrambled to try and secure their ordered wedding dresses. She is handling the case with her lawyer, Brett Marks, of the Akerman law firm in Fort Lauderdale. Bankruptcy Court in West Palm Beach resulted in claims from creditors that are “north of $20 million,” according to West Palm Beach trustee Margaret Smith. The Chapter 7 liquidation case filed in U.S. The Delray Beach-based company was one of the nation’s largest wedding dress retailers, and its closure left thousands of disappointed brides, shuttered retail stores across the country, and left 300 to 400 employees without jobs. Now, one year after Alfred Angelo collapsed, its bankruptcy case drags on. Bove moved on, selecting another dress at David’s Bridal, where she and other out-of-luck Alfred Angelo brides were offered dresses at 40 percent discounts. Well before her wedding, the national chain of bridal salons closed last July and filed for bankruptcy. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.Carolina Bove, who was married in March, is still out the $800 deposit for an off-white strapless wedding gown she ordered from Alfred Angelo, and never got to wear. 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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