Lost Luggage: Wedding Dress Missing After Flight

If you were traveling with your wedding dress, would you check it or carry it on? A bride named Jenn chose to check her wedding dress—and she hasn’t seen it since. The bride was flying from Pennsylvania, where she lives, to North Carolina, where she grew up and where her wedding would take place seven days later. But she says her dress was stolen from her bag:

”When I picked up the bag, I nearly fell over because I expected it to be about 25 pounds heavier than it was. I opened the bag in front of the desk agents and inside was the ripped open garment bag, complete with broken zipper, and a broken hanger. There was no dress.”

Jenn’s mom talked her out of panic mode, and they found a dress and had it altered in time. But it wasn’t “her” dress—not to mention the additional $1,000 it cost to buy “her” dress and have it altered in the first place. So what should she do now? What would you do in her shoes?

—Josey Miller

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photo: courtesy of Piccione Bridal