The medical lab worker was heartbroken about losing the dress because her father had given her $1,000 to spend on her bridal gown as a gift. Some were able to get “charge-backs,” or cancelled credit card transactions, while others filed claims with the bankruptcy court.īeyond the money lost, the closing of Alfred Angelo took an emotional toll on the brides.īove, 34, was one of the brides who desperately stood in front of the Alfred Angelo store in Boynton Beach last July. Others who had ordered dresses never got to see them. “We simply didn’t have funds available to repay the shippers so a lot of inventory was lost to liens or abandoned,” Marks and Smith said. Others were aboard a ship in California but shippers wouldn’t release them until they were paid. Some were stored in China and couldn’t be shipped to the U.S.
Some dresses were locked up by landlords when stores were abandoned overnight. Some were lucky, as Redmond, the trustee and store personnel worked to connect brides who had upcoming weddings with their dresses being altered in the stores.īut Smith, the trustee, said much of the inventory was lost.
When Alfred Angelo suddenly closed its stores, brides scrambled to try and secure their ordered wedding dresses. She is handling the case with her lawyer, Brett Marks, of the Akerman law firm in Fort Lauderdale.
Bankruptcy Court in West Palm Beach resulted in claims from creditors that are “north of $20 million,” according to West Palm Beach trustee Margaret Smith. The Chapter 7 liquidation case filed in U.S. The Delray Beach-based company was one of the nation’s largest wedding dress retailers, and its closure left thousands of disappointed brides, shuttered retail stores across the country, and left 300 to 400 employees without jobs. Now, one year after Alfred Angelo collapsed, its bankruptcy case drags on. Bove moved on, selecting another dress at David’s Bridal, where she and other out-of-luck Alfred Angelo brides were offered dresses at 40 percent discounts. Well before her wedding, the national chain of bridal salons closed last July and filed for bankruptcy. They didn’t respond to her questions about the fate of brides and their dresses.Carolina Bove, who was married in March, is still out the $800 deposit for an off-white strapless wedding gown she ordered from Alfred Angelo, and never got to wear.
on Thursday, with no warning.Ī reporter with Atlanta’s WSB-TV followed store employees to their cars trying to get an answer. All of the company’s own stores closed permanently at 8 P.M. Alfred Angelo has more than 60 of its own boutiques, and sells its gowns as a wholesaler in 1,400 other retailers. They might receive their gowns in the mail if their orders have already been placed. The Wall Street Journal reports that the company is about to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and liquidate all of its assets. Strangely, the paper recounts that the only two people left in the company’s former offices denied that they were employees, then asked the Post reporter to leave. The Palm Beach Post, local newspaper of the company’s Florida headquarters, reports that employees streamed out of the building all day yesterday carrying boxes and plants.Ĭompany representatives didn’t talk to the media, and accounts of people streaming out of the building carrying plants came from other tenants in the office building. Planning a wedding is already pretty stressful, and an unknown number of brides across the country have an extra and unanticipated source of stress: Alfred Angelo, a retailer and maker of bridal and bridesmaids’ gowns, abruptly closed its doors and stopped answering the phone yesterday. 7.14.17 12:17 PM EDT By Laura Northrup panic alfred angelo wedding gowns bridal gowns brides weddings bankruptcy
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