The INSIDER Summary:
- Just one hour before her wedding ceremony, bride-to-be Nathalie Lout found herself without a gown.
- Her wedding photographer saved the day by calling a local bridal boutique.
- Women from the boutique came to the venue and hand-tailored a dress for Lout on the spot.
- It looked amazing, and she loved her dress so much that she was moved to tears.
Many people dream of their future wedding, but not having a gown on your special day would be a nightmare.
Nathalie Lout found herself in that situation on September 24, when the gown she planned on wearing was seemingly held hostage by the store she bought it from, as we first read on the Daily Mail.
"I still don't know what happened to my original dress," Lout told the Daily Mail. "I had my final fitting about 10 days earlier and was told that the dress would be ready on either the Thursday or Friday before the wedding and that they would contact me when it was ready."
At 10:30 a.m., just an hour before the 11:30 a.m. ceremony, wedding photographer Lizzie Adams arrived at the venue where she found a distraught Lout without a dress for her own wedding. Panicked and without other options, Lout planned on wearing a white slip dress to her wedding.
Without missing a beat, Adams called Courtyard Boutique, a small business run by mother-daughter duo Rhiannon and Anne Moore. Within minutes, the Moores arrived and got to work.
"We got as many details as possible regarding the bride's figure and height and then found all the designer sample gowns we had which would work on her petite frame and a few accessories to compliment them, popped them in a bag, got all our sewing equipment together and bundled into the car," Anne told HuffPost UK.
Because of Lout's petite stature, Anne had to work quickly to alter the dress to suit her height.
Anne began making alterations at 11 a.m. and was finished just after 11:30 a.m. Lout was fashionably late to her wedding, but she didn't mind. The bride loved her dress so much that she was moved to tears.
"The dress was incredible and such a difference to what I thought I was going to have to wear. While I tried to stay calm – I did break down in tears when I first saw it," she told the Daily Mail. "So many people told me I looked 'stunning' and they could not believe that it was not the original dress as it looked perfect on me."
Two hours after the ceremony, her original dressmaker arrived with the dress Lout had intended on wearing to begin without explanation. But Lout decided to stick with her new dress — and she got a full refund on her old one.
It was like a modern fairytale of sorts.
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