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Bridal gown customers feel jilted as store closes, blaming Covid-19

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A Gauteng wedding dress retailer has shut up shop without warning, leaving scores of brides without the gowns they’d paid for in full or in part.

Eurobride’s attorney has since told TimesLIVE that his client wants to send gowns to its clients, if fully paid for first — but only by courier.

“At last count 29 brides, now collectively owed R473,950 by Eurobride, are sharing their stories on a WhatsApp group, and more are joining every day,” Van der Westhuizen said. Last April Jessica Coetzee paid Eurobride R11,000 as a 50% deposit on a bridal gown for her August 2020 wedding, and was told it would arrive at their Sandton store in February. That hadn’t happened by the time the country went into lockdown in late March, and when she made contact in September about going in for a fitting — having postponed her wedding until April 2021 — she was told they did not have their 2021 fitting schedule yet.

 

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