I drove 450 miles to save my £1,400 dream wedding dress
A bride-to-be made a 450-mile motorway dash to rescue her wedding dress from Berketex two days after the company collapsed.
Danielle Dyer, 25, raced from her home in Dunbar, East Lothian, to the stricken company’s former headquarters in Sheffield to pick up her £1,400 dress which had been sent away to have some alterations done.
The nursing assistant and her fiancé Lawrie McLaren, 26, will tie the knot in Las Vegas on Friday. But Danielle thought her big day would be ruined after she found out Berketex had gone bust.
“I ordered my dress in June and was supposed to pick it up from the Berketex shop in Edinburgh this weekend after a final fitting,” she told The Sunday Post. “But last Tuesday night I was in shock when I got a message from a relative telling me the company had closed down.
“We have a party of 22 friends and relatives coming to Vegas with us on Tuesday for the wedding and I was freaking out that I would have no dress. I felt sick and I burst into tears.”
Her dress was eventually traced to the Berketex head office in Sheffield.
“The administrators for Berketex in Edinburgh were actually really helpful and I would never have got my dress if they hadn’t stepped in and located it.
“The stress of all this has been incredible.”