Spurning brides-to-be across the country, a wedding dress retailer got its own case of cold feet Friday, filing for bankruptcy and closing all its stores, USA Today reported. Alfred Angelo Bridal, a national chain with 60 of its own stores and 1,400 locations worldwide that sell its products, filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation in Florida, where it is based. Alfred Angelo plans to liquidate its assets, said Patricia Redmond, a lawyer for the Florida firm Stearns Weaver Miller that handled the bankruptcy filing. Store managers were not alerted to the closure, according to the Wall Street Journal, and many stores were locked up for the last time on Thursday with no advance warning to customers or employees. Some Alfred Angelo customers who hadn't received their orders took to Twitter on Friday to voice their frustration. With weddings approaching and little time to find another dress, many brides were also unsure whether they would receive a refund on a dress they’d paid for but had not yet received. Redmond said that she had received "thousands" of e-mails from concerned women, but that the company would work to fulfill all orders that had already been purchased from Alfred Angelo.
