An Australian bride-to-be is searching for her wedding dress after her fiance accidentally left it on the roof of his car.
Lindel Cain, of Adelaide, told local outlet 7 News that she and her fiance Tom Mitton picked up some things from storage at the time, and Mitton put a box containing her $2,000 dress on the roof of his car. She said he was worried the box and its delicate contents would be crushed or damaged by other objects. Little did Mitton know that his careful preservation of the wedding dress would backfire. The couple later got into the car and drove away with the box still on the roof of the vehicle.
They soon realized their mistake. “We were entering Burnside Village [a local shopping center] when the penny dropped for him and we quickly turned around and tried to retrace our steps,” Cain told 7 News.
“We parked the car and walked down Port Wakefield Road with trucks going 90 kilometers an hour past us, trying to find a box somewhere along the road,” she continued.
Unfortunately, the couple was out of luck, and now Cain has put up a $500 reward for anyone who finds the box and the dress, which she said is marked with her name.
If the dress doesn’t end up showing up, Cain still has plenty of time to get a replacement, as her wedding doesn’t take place until February 2025.
Meanwhile, she decides to see the humor in an unfortunate wedding mistake.
“It will be a very good speech at the wedding,” she told 7 News.
“For a man who is not very emotional, yesterday was a lot of emotion, a lot of tears because he could see how upset I was,” she added of Mitton.
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In a similar story in 2020, a bride named Narolin Cepeda and her family were traveling to Ohio for a wedding when the bride’s mother accidentally left a bag containing her daughter’s wedding dress after the group went through security.
TSA employee saves bride’s wedding dress left at airport security: She ‘saved’ the wedding
Cepeda’s brother, Christopher Cepeda, contacted TSA’s lost and found office, but he wasn’t too optimistic about the recovery of Narolin’s dress. “As soon as I submitted the application, we lost hope of getting the luggage back in time for the wedding,” he said Asbury Park Press.
To his surprise, he was quickly called by TSA Administrative Assistant Loletta Nathan-Gordon. She explained that she received Christopher’s email at 11:54 a.m. and that by noon she was able to locate the bag, which was still sitting at the security checkpoint.
Nathan-Gordon arranged for the bag to be sent to Narolin overnight and it arrived at 8:55am the next morning – just in time for the bride to walk down the aisle.
“She literally saved my sister’s wedding,” Christopher said of Nathan-Gordon. “If it wasn’t for her, everything would be a disaster.”
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