Portsmouth bride reunited with dress after car boot sale mix up

A bride-to-be has been reunited with her wedding formal aft it accidentally ended up successful a car footwear sale.

Liv Stirling's nan, Bobbie Clutterbuck, bought the formal arsenic a wedding gift, but erstwhile she passed distant successful February the formal was mislaid successful a wide out.

Miss Stirling, from Portsmouth, past launched a societal media run to way it down.

Within a time she was reunited with the dress, which had been bought astatine a car footwear merchantability successful Ford, West Sussex.

She had been keeping the wedding gown harmless astatine her nan's level until the large time adjacent year.

But erstwhile her nan passed away, her relative organised a wide retired and said the formal was "scooped up" with everything else.

"I had an implicit breakdown, honestly if you'd seen maine astatine the clip with my bridesmaids I looked similar a panda, tears streaming, I didn't cognize what to do.

"It was a nightmare and it was their thought to enactment it connected Facebook," Miss Stirling explained.

She had taken pictures of herself successful the dress, which her bridesmaids utilized to enactment retired a plea connected societal media, arsenic good arsenic putting calls successful to section tips successful lawsuit it had been disposed of.

Miss Stirling continued: "I started by saying 'this is going to beryllium a truly unusual request, but person you travel crossed a wedding dress?'

"They [tip staff] were really, truly beauteous and apologetic and said it wasn't the weirdest petition they'd had."

The Facebook station was shared by much than 14,000 radical aft Miss Stirling published it connected Saturday afternoon.

By Sunday morning, she had received a connection from a mates who believed they had her formal and planned to conscionable her astatine a car footwear merchantability successful Arundel.

"I couldn't judge it, conscionable implicit the satellite that idiosyncratic truthful beauteous had the dress. They said they believed successful destiny and bringing it backmost to its rightful proprietor and wouldn't instrumentality immoderate compensation," Miss Stirling said.

She added: "I conscionable can't convey everybody capable for being truthful kind, it's been a beauteous happening to spot connected societal media. Nan would beryllium thrilled."

Miss Stirling is present engaged readying her large time successful March adjacent twelvemonth and said her husband-to-be had been "incredible" by staying disconnected societal media truthful helium didn't spot the dress.