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Had a night full of wedding-related anxiety dreams. Nothing specific. Just a lot of running around and talking to people.

Telegraph - Angry brides confront bridal shop owner

Lisa Clarkson received threats last month and went into hiding after the sudden closure of her shop left about 170 brides out of pocket and without a dress for their big day.

She reappeared on Monday at a creditors meeting where she was branded a “cheat” and a “fraudster” by some of the angry brides-to-be.

She blamed market conditions and suppliers for the collapse of Arvella Bridal, of Lyndhurst, Hants, with estimated debts of £375,000. After the meeting, she had to make a swift exit through the back door.

Nick Peat, the liquidator who is examining the company’s finances, said of the meeting: “It went pretty much as expected; a room full of angry brides-to-be who paid money up front and never got their dresses. They were accusing Mrs Clarkson of fraud.

“There were 60-plus (brides) and many of them doubled up with their fiances or mothers.”

One bride, Kate Winstone, 27, said she discovered days before her wedding that her dress, chosen a year earlier, had never been ordered.

She grew suspicious at a fitting last month because her frock was too big and was praised for losing weight.

“I had lost a bit for the wedding, but not that much,” she said.

“Looking back, the dress I was fobbed-off with was obviously someone else’s. It was over-sized and ill-fitting.”

Well, I had my fitting the other day, and as soon as they cut into that sucker, ah hah, there are very few women that could be fobbed off with my dimensions. Plus the fact, it’s off the rack, so there are no orders to not be made. That and the fact that my salon isn’t run by morons.

Knock on wood.