16 years after her wedding, this Guelph woman opens package with gown to find it's not hers
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While some brides rush to see their wedding dress shortly after the big day, others opt to wait for a milestone anniversary to pull it out and fondly reflect on their wedding day.
Sixteen years after her nuptials with Jordan on the beaches of Cuba, Ashley Charette recently was stunned when she opened the dry-cleaning box she thought contained her dress: It wasn't hers.
"I can't even tell you the shock. I was speechless," said Ashley.
After her mother, Margaret McCarron, returned to Canada from the 2008 wedding, she dropped Charette's gown off at K Cleaners in Guelph.
Charette recalled that the wedding dress selection process was sentimental, since her mother-in-law offered to make it by hand.
"We wanted to do a destination wedding, so we decided to get married in Cuba, which was kind of the basis for the design because I didn't want anything super huge, or hot or heavy."
Once the happy couple returned from Cuba, Charette's mother dropped the dress off in the dry-cleaning box, and that's where it stayed for over a decade.
It wasn't until Charette's family was doing house cleaning in August that her son asked to see the dress.
When she pulled it out of the box, she quickly realized it wasn't the one she had worn in Cuba.
"Jordan thought it was a joke and then I thought it was a joke. I thought maybe I was mis-remembering or maybe I was wrong."
She said she immediately called her mom.
McCarron said that when K Cleaners' representative received her call, the individual was more than helpful, but explained that given the time that had passed, there wasn't much they could do.
"All their computers had been updated in 2012, so they couldn't go back to '09 to see who had a dress brought in at that particular time," said McCarron. "I was really sad because it was a beautiful dress, and Ruth [the mother-in-law] had made it and it had some sentimentality to it."
CBC News reached out to K Cleaners but it chose not to comment.
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