‘Why were some of our dresses never ordered? Why, when you took our money, are we now being told by suppliers that they did not receive a cent?’
They were the belligerent brides-to-be who had ordered and paid for gowns from The Wedding Dress Ltd, the company which last month ceased trading, owing creditors over €1 million.
In an upstairs room, up to 200 wrathful women, many accompanied by fuming fiancés, demanded to know where their money had gone.