A bride-to-be was left devastated after someone stole her wedding dress from her doorstep just after it was delivered.
Becky Herbert, 34, bought a beautiful second-hand wedding dress from Vinted for her August wedding to her partner Jules. She saw the ivory dress with a pretty lace train on the app and knew it was perfect, reports The Mirror.
Becky said: “I always knew as soon as we started planning the wedding that I wanted a pre-loved dress.
“It was exactly what I’d been looking for.”
She paid £250 for the dress, and Evri delivered it. They even sent her an email with a picture of the package at her house in Aldershot, Hampshire.
As she wasn’t home, Becky quickly asked a neighbour to bring the dress inside so it wouldn’t be left outside. But, in less than 30 minutes on February 3, someone stole Becky’s dream dress.
Becky said, “I had requested that the parcel was not delivered to the door and set an alternative safe space which had been acknowledged by the courier – but they still just dumped it on the doorstep.”
Becky, upset and angry, reported the theft to the police who are now looking into the “reckless” act.
She said she been having “sleepless nights”, hoping that the thief would return the dress once they realise its importance.
Unfortunately, as the dress is second-hand and no longer made, Becky worries she won’t be able to wear it for her wedding later this year.
Evri has given Becky a refund, admitting there was “no clear evidence that the parcel was delivered securely”.
Becky, who has been with her partner Jules for five years and got engaged last summer, said she was heartbroken over the “waste” of “such a beautiful dress”, adding “I never got to touch it or put it on”.
Police have asked anyone with information about the theft to come forward.
