Amanda Perry was recently entertaining the idea of wearing her wedding dress again for a girl’s night out. She preserved her dress in 2017, using a Plymouth laundromat, and was eager to open up the box.
When she did, she stomached a hard reality: She had the wrong dress. Not only was it not her gown, but it was 12 sizes too big.
“I was just like, ‘That is not my dress,’” said Perry, the surreal realization of the situation setting in. “What I saw was just like the front of the dress and I was like, ‘No, it's completely not my dress.’”
In 2015, following a proposal from her longtime boyfriend Russell, an engaged Perry set out to find the wedding dress of her dreams, an intimate hunt with just her mother. She made a point to avoid a ball gown after some questionable prom dress choices, op