It is one of the most highly trusted bridal shops with over 80 years of experience in dressing up brides. Under that plan, any creditors would be left to split whatever proceeds are collected from selling the company's assets.Alfred Angelo wedding dresses are traditional bridal gowns with a modern twist intricately crafted for brides who always dreamt of walking the aisle in a completely Disney Princess style. The company has been in business for some 80 years - but it has now filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which means it wants to liquidate its assets and go out of business rather than seek to restructure its debt. Others who weren't so lucky shared another strategy: going to a competitor (several are offering discounts to Alfred Angelo's customers) - and contacting credit card companies to try to claw back payments.īridesmaid Natalie Buck, who's in a wedding in October, told KPCC that when she called Visa about the situation, "They said that if the company doesn't follow through then they will give me my money, and they will go after Alfred Angelo."Īlfred Angelo is based in Delray Beach, Fla., north of Boca Raton. "I would like to say thank you to the staff at the Tulsa Oklahoma location, they didn't have to be here today to take care of all the people that bought dresses," Maegan Alyssa Fletcher wrote, adding that the employees aren't likely to be paid for their work. 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.
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"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.
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"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.
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