Wannabe brides pounce on dress bargains

FROM tantrums and tiaras to bargain-bin brides, customers seeking cut-price wedding gowns at a liquidation sale yesterday were in far chipper mood than the angry women who last month lost money after the closure of a bridal shop.

When The Wedding Dress shut its doors at Penrose Wharf, Penrose Quay, Cork city, on March 21 with debts of over €1 million, scores of brides-to-be were left frockless, flat-broke and fed-up.

To add to their misfortune, liquidator Gerard Murphy told them they were last in a line of creditors with no hope of getting their money back.