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The bride was in stitches, but it was no laughing matter, according to a Long Island, N.Y., small claims judge.
Nassau County District Judge Gary Knobel ordered seamstress Dalia Cohen to pay one of her bridal clients $1,500 in restitution after the zipper that she installed on the woman’s ivory wedding dress split down its seam less than an hour before she was to walk down the aisle.
According to court documents, Samantha Shea had to have two concierge workers spend an hour and half sewing her into her dress, a job for which she paid the workers $200 collected from wedding gifts. Ms. Shea testified at trial that the 90-minute delay forced her to miss her own cocktail reception and incur a $100 overtime charge from the minister hired to perform the ceremony.
Ms. Shea’s “nightmare” continued at the end of the evening, according to court documents, when her family was forced to rip the dress apart to get her out of it.
In his decision, Judge Knobel ruled that Ms. Cohen’s apparently shoddy stitching amounted to a breach of her oral agreement with Ms. Shea to properly alter the dress, and that she was accordingly liable for the monetary damages Ms. Shea incurred as a result of the breach.
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