Social Media Steps In To Replace Bride’s Destroyed Wedding Dress
Strangers stepped in to help replace a bride-to-be’s dress after it was destroyed in a wildfire [Photo: Instagram/wildeyed]
In the lead up to their wedding most brides-to-be are tinkering with seating plans and working out who’s going to sit next to cringey uncle Ned, but in the days before she was due to wed Elise Boissonneault had a crisis on a whole other level.
Everything had been going to plan for the excited bride to be until a wildfire burned through her home town of Fort McMurray in Alberta, destroying her carefully chosen wedding dress along with the bridal shop she’d bought it from.
Thankfully Elise and her fiancé, Brandon, managed to escape unharmed, but as you can imagine losing her dream dress and being unable to return home did put the spoilers on their big day. But with a little help from Instagram and some kindness of strangers the couple’s wedding was salvaged.
Elise wearing the evening gown donated to her by a bridal boutique [Photo: Instagram/wildeyed]
Taking to social media to lead a search for a new wedding dress, Elise’s friend and wedding photographer Alex Neary from Wild Eyed Photography posted a heartfelt post about the couple’s predicament, imploring people to help if they could.
And hundreds of strangers stepped forward to offer to loan or donate their own wedding dresses, while bridal shops also offered to supply Elise with a replacement dress.
Elise’s day was able to go ahead as planned thanks to a heartfelt plea on social media [Photo: Instagram/wildeyed]
After some tear-filled try-ons, Elise eventually walked out of LeaAnn Belter Bridal with not just one but two stunning gowns for her wedding day – one for the ceremony and another for the reception. And after a collective sigh of relief the wedding went ahead as planned this weekend with the bride arriving via the Toronto ferry to whoops of cheers.
“Elise was so overcome with emotions by everything that has happened and I can safely say that the kindness shown by strangers has touched her more than you will ever know,” Alex Neary wrote on Instagram. “Thank you SO much for all of your help! You really don’t know how much it means to her and her family.”
People cheered as the bride arrived to celebrate her big day [Photo: Instagram/wildeyed]
“You don’t expect this to happen and then for people to put out this much love and support … it’s crazy,” Elise told Toronto’s CBC News.
Well if that doesn’t warm the cockles on a Monday morning we don’t know what will.
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