Wedding Dress Returned 32 Years After Dry Cleaner Mix-Up
WILLOWICK, Ohio (AP) - An Ohio woman has been reunited with her wedding dress 32 years after a dry cleaner mix-up.
Ame Bartlebaugh went looking for her mother's wedding dress at her grandmother's house in Willowick on Feb. 4. The 25-year-old is getting married next year.
Bartlebaugh opened the box expecting a sleeveless dress. But she found a lacy, tiered dress that had been put in the box by a now-defunct dry cleaner in 1985.
Bartlebaugh posted about the mix-up on Facebook. Her friends shared the photos and a woman responded within hours that the dress belonged to her best friend's mom.
My parents got married in 1985. Afterwards, my mom had her dress preserved at the local dry cleaner.
— Brian Havrilla (@brianhavrilla) February 6, 2018
When she opened the box for the first time in 2013, after our basement flooded, she discovered the box she was given wasn't her dress. She was heartbroken.
Well... We found it. pic.twitter.com/taRTERtVQ9
Michelle Havrilla received her dress Monday for the first time since her 1985 wedding. She says she's in shock.
Bartlebaugh says she hopes social media will help her find her mom's dress.
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