‘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?’

IN one great bridal march, they clipped their way across the foyer of the Clarion Hotel, hell bent on getting answers from the wedding outfitters who had let them down.

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.