{"id":2449,"date":"2011-04-26T13:15:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T19:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwgnm.wordpress.com\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2020-06-26T17:05:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T17:05:16","slug":"bride-finds-wrong-wedding-gown-on-25th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weddingcollectivenm.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/26\/bride-finds-wrong-wedding-gown-on-25th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Bride finds wrong wedding gown on 25th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/static.perfectweddingguide.com\/imagerepository\/news\/6cd3889f-600b-4626-bf05-965dab4c16d4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>Many brides choose to save their <a href=\"http:\/\/albuquerque-santa-fe.perfectweddingguide.com\/all\/wedding-fashion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wedding gowns<\/a>, often as keepsakes or for use in a daughter&#8217;s wedding someday. Kathleen Rinaldi wanted to wear hers in a vow renewal <a href=\"http:\/\/albuquerque-santa-fe.perfectweddingguide.com\/all\/ceremony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ceremony<\/a> to mark her 25th wedding anniversary with her husband Robert, but was shocked to discover that the chest she&#8217;d waited two and a half decades to open contained a wedding gown alright &#8211; just not her own.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was so heartbroken when I pulled out the dress and realized they had given me the wrong one,&#8221; Rinaldi told The Republican. &#8220;I have always been so careful with the box, making sure to keep it in a cedar chest and never opening it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rinaldi first noticed something was wrong when she began to zip up the gown &#8211; and suddenly remembered that her own gown had had buttons, not a zipper. Other than a v-neck front, the two dresses has little in common.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s not all bad news. Rinaldi knows that the dress in the box must mean a lot to another bride out there. She&#8217;s hoping that by getting the story out and circulating some drawings included with the gown, she can find the frock&#8217;s rightful owner.<\/p>\n<p>As for her own gown? &#8220;I know it&#8217;s just a dress,&#8221; she concedes. &#8220;I have a wonderful life with two beautiful children and I am blessed to still be married to my husband. I have come to accept that I may never find the dress, but it would be wonderful if I could.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Click here to read more <a href=\"http:\/\/albuquerque-santa-fe.perfectweddingguide.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wedding news<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many brides choose to save their wedding gowns, often as keepsakes or for use in a daughter&#8217;s wedding someday. Kathleen Rinaldi wanted to wear hers in a vow renewal ceremony to mark her 25th wedding anniversary with her husband Robert, but was shocked to discover that the chest she&#8217;d waited two and a half decades [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[154,2441],"class_list":["post-2449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-weddings","tag-albuquerque-bridal-gowns","tag-wedding-dress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weddingcollectivenm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weddingcollectivenm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weddingcollectivenm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weddingcollectivenm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weddingcollectivenm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.weddingcollectivenm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16315,"href":"https:\/\/www.weddingcollectivenm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions\/16315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weddingcollectivenm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weddingcollectivenm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weddingcollectivenm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}