As many as “hundreds” of weddings have been plunged into disarray after a bridal shop collapsed into voluntary liquidation.
On Monday, The Bridal Atelier Pty Ltd, a bridal shop in melbourne, appointed liquidators.
Staff at the company are shocked and have been left to field calls from distraught brides concerned their wedding plans have gone up in smoke.
The Bridal Atelier’s website and Instagram pages have been removed while the company’s phone number is disconnected. It has stores in Melbourne and sydney. Although the Sydney store has yet to go into liquidation, it has closed down.
Michael Dullaway and Mark William Pearce from Pearce & Heers Insolvency Accountants, are the appointed liquidators.
Mr Dullaway told news.com.au the company had “never recovered from the Covid lockdown” so had made the difficult decision to shut down for good.
One of the Melbourner workers, Georgia Schroeder, said she had only been hired as the New Retail and Operations manager less than two months before the collapse and that she was devastated.
“I’m a broken woman,” she posted online, adding that she is “completely crushed”.
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