A bride-to-be who thought she had found her dream dress through an online second-hand app has lost hope of ever wearing it to the August ceremony after a ruthless thief stole the package earlier this month.
“From the moment we started planning the wedding, I always knew I wanted a pre-loved, pre-loved dress. It was exactly what I was looking for. […] I could never touch it or put it on, even though it was on my doorstep,” Becky Herbert, 34, complained to the BBC on Monday.
On February 3, it would have taken just a few minutes for a thief to get his hands on the package containing the wedding dress, which had been freshly delivered to the front door of the 30-year-old from Aldershot in the south of England, according to British media.
The woman had ordered the dress second-hand through the Vinted app, priced at £250 (around $425 Canadian), after imagining herself saying “yes” to her partner of the last five in the ivory dress in August next year years to say.
However, since the door to her apartment was particularly visible to passers-by, she specifically asked the delivery company Evri to drop him off at another safe place “recognized by the courier,” since the woman could not be there. house back then.
However, on the day of delivery, she received an email informing her that the package had just been dropped off with a photo of it in front of her door. Then she rushed to ask a neighbor to pick up the package, but it was already too late: in less than 30 minutes someone else would have gotten their hands on the package.
“I know that neither the delivery person knew the value of the item nor the person who received the package, but it all seemed pretty frivolous to me. “For a while I really thought that as soon as someone opened it and found out it was a wedding dress, they would honorably return it,” she sighed to the BBC.
If the delivery company had apologized to the woman after a few days and refunded her the price of the dress, there would have been “no clear evidence”. [ne montrait] that the package was delivered safely,” the woman doubts she will find another example of her perfect dress.
“It was a model from a few years ago that was no longer made, so it was unlikely I would find another one,” she reportedly added, desperate to get the dress back.
In an appeal to everyone on Facebook, she promised not to ask anyone who returns the dress questions and even said she was willing to pay for the return.