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Her boss made her buy the gown? Are you freakin' kidding me?
I'd buy it, Leigh Anne, but I'd have to have it altered, and I hear your mom rips people off.
All I can say is Oh My God. But it does sound beautiful. Your poor mom.
Your poor, poor mother. Yikes.
Alas, its about a year and a half late. And Ladybug is not only tall, she's a size 20, at best.
No, her boss didn't make her buy the gown. But she didn't get paid for her labor, either. And she wasn't going to give the dress to DB for free. Or for $40. So she's selling it.
Since her boss was the one who didn't want to get the bride to sign an agreement, should her boss be the one to absorb the cost?
jus' sayin'
funnie slays me.
I don't know what your mom's working arrangement with her boss is (sounds kind of informal?) but I hope she *insists* on the signed estimate next time, if for no other reason than to be sure she covers her labor costs. Man. Your poor mom.
Actually, it amazes me her boss wasn't smart enough to see this coming if she owns a bridal store. Not to mention that one of her highly skilled seamstresses could have spent that time working on a paying customer instead.
Hope your mom can sell it!
Dear lord. If this was a movie, your mother would have gone all medieval on that bride's ass, and the audience would have stood up and cheered.
Sadly, I knew exactly what was coming, but I read til the bitter end nonetheless.
i think your mom should sell it on e-bay w/starting cost of $500. i'm sure she would get a buyer.
Something seriously stinks here...
Why didn't her boss get her to give DB an itemized list of what the gown would cost in the end, down to descriptions of the necessary alterations? Your mother wanted to do that. Heck, why didn't DB demand an estimate of how much alterations would cost? Any NORMAL human being would have asked for that.
Your mother did a lot of work for nothing that wouldn't have had to happen if her boss didn't demand she alter the dress. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
I know a few lawyers.... 
Mykull's suggestion is fair game, especially since Bridezilla found the gown on eBay in the first place.
The boss should buy that dress from your mother.
However, if I were a size 22, and I had not already gotten married 10 years ago, and I for some odd reason wanted to get married now, I'd buy it. Not helpful, I know. But it just sounds so pretty!
Seriously, ebay is a great idea. She should include the exact text of your entry in her description of the dress. I bet someone would snatch it right up.
Trish - what can I say? It's the South, a store owned by two old Southern ladies in their late sixties and employing another woman in her mid-sixties. They've never owned a business, my dad does their books and pays their mortgage so they don't have to worry about that, and it's more important to them to be "nice" than to cover their own asses. My mother's boss is in no way trying to be malicious; she's just naive. But the E-bay suggestion is a good one - I'll call my mom and ask her if she wants me to set it up for her.
I hate that woman.
Leigh Anne - if your mom goes with eBay ,make sure she either sets up a reserve price or waits until bridal gowns are at a premium before putting it up for bid. She can watch and check final sales to determine trends. She doesn't want to start her bid at a buck and end up selling it for $10.00. Gotta have a reserve price.
If she wants, I'll even put up a "for sale" post on my blog whenever she's ready to unload it.
I'm not from far South. I'm from the Mason-Dixon line area. I can be surly. I wondered if your mom's boss was naive, but my suspicious nature got in the way. I hope her boss hasn't lost much money by caving in to other customers like Bridezilla.
Spam! Neato.
Oh, frog, you're just jealous because your wedding dress was butt ugly!
That being said, I see I have some house-keeping to do...
She should have called her fat. Or at least Beeyatch.
I'm with Tishie here. The story will sell the dress. :D
I'm just reminded of this scene in the book version of The Princess Bride where Domingo Montoya makes a fantastic six-fingered sword for the six-fingered man. He worked his ass off to make the sword just perfect, but then the six-fingered man tried to negotiate a lower price. Domingo Montoya called him a fool and an enemy of art and pitited him. So the six-fingered man killed him, thus causing Inigo Montoya to spend many years seeking revenge. So, in short, it's a good thing that this customer didn't stab your mother, Flea, because then you'd have to track the would-be customer down and kill her. But it would have been cool if your mom told that customer that she was a fool and and enemy of art and that she pitied her.
Dang, that dress sounds gorgeous. I wish I'd had it during my wedding, I was a rack size 22 then... good luck to your mom, flea!
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