Hillsborough Bride's Fiance Saves The Day After Alfred Angelo Closes

HILLSBOROUGH, NJ — With only five weeks until the wedding day, the last thing a bride wants to hear is that her gown is missing.

Hillsborough resident Michelle Golder was one of the many brides who had purchased her wedding gown from Alfred Angelo, which filed for bankruptcy and abruptly closed all of its stores without notice to any of its customers on Friday.

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Golder said she wasn’t given a phone call, email, nothing. The first she heard about the closure was from her fiance Mindy Wolfmayer.

“Mindy saw a message Facebook from David’s Bridal saying something along lines that they were offering discounts for brides who bought dresses from Alfred Angelo because they closed down,” Golder said.

Golder tried calling the Whitehall, Pennsylvania store numerous times on July 14 with no luck. The phone would just keep ringing and eventually go into a voicemail that was full.

Saturday, Wolfmayer drove the hour and 45 minutes to the store to be “greeted with locked doors and covered up walls and a random email address, not an Alfred Angelo email. I than saw a sign posted that they shipped the dresses on file to the dresses.”

“I was freaking out because I didn’t know if had a wedding dress or not,” Golder said. “My wedding is in five weeks and I had already went to 10 different stores to find the one wedding dress I liked. Now I find out they closed and who knows if or who had my dress, if it was getting shipped or not and if it was shipped, if I would get in time for my wedding. I didn’t know if I should start looking for another dress.”

“If I had to go get a new dress there I probably wouldn’t be able to get a dress because pickings are slim. Plus it would be more expensive to rush order something and for alterations,” Golder continued.

Lucky Wolfmayer ran into another bride in the parking lot that had tracked down the seamstress with some of the dresses. As luck would have it the seamstress indeed had Golder’s dress.

Golder had already gotten her first fitting with Alfred Angelo but the seamstress said she would finish altering Golder’s dress for her because she didn’t want her not to have a dress on her wedding day.

Golder was extremely thankful to the seamstress and, most importantly, to her fiance for tracking her dress down.

“If it wasn’t for her I wouldn’t have had a dress,” Golder said of Wolfmayer.

Golder was very upset with how Alfred Angelo handled everything.

“Girls really search for the perfect dress and they think they are going to get it and to have them close and not tell anyone was awful… It was poorly handled. They should’ve called the brides and at least given us a time to get there to pick up the dresses. I would’ve left work to get it.”

Golder and Wolfmayer are tying the knot on Aug. 25 in New Hope, Pennsylvania.

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