Theresa Thompson went to a closet recently, dug out a box that had contained her wedding dress for years.
“It was time to get rid of my dress, I’m divorced,” said Thompson.
But she took a final look in the box, and it was not her dress.
“I hadn’t opened it in 20-years … It was the veil, but the dress was pure white satin. Mine was a cream,” she said.
While losing her dress was not particularly devastating because she had decided “to move on” by selling it, she realized some other bride did not have her dress.
At the time of her wedding Thompson was working in Yorkton, and although married on the West Coast had her dress cleaned in Yorkton after the event. She took the dress to York-Sask Drycleaners, where it was cleaned and packed away in what she termed “a bridal chest.”
Thompson said she immediately called the Yorkton drycleaners, but learned that it had new owners since 1998, and records from that time were lost in a business fire.
“It made me more determined than ever to find the owner of the dress,” she said.
The dress in Thompson’s chest is a size 10, cream in colour, and made by Jessica McClintock.
Thompson said it is a rather strange occurrence to be sure.
“What’s the chance of this happening? I think it’s pretty bizarre, likely pretty rare. You just assume it’s your dress in there,” she said.
If the owner of the dress wants it back, Thompson said they can contact her on Facebook where she uses the alias Terrie Bai.
