Josephine ordered a custom dress for her wedding.
The last fitting was ten weeks before the event.
During the session, pearls flew off and had to be replaced.
A 25-year-old pharmacy student ordered a custom bridal gown for her wedding.
But when she showed up to the final fitting just ten weeks before 500 guests would arrive in Garden City, New York, to watch her wed Michael Jandovitz, she found a dress that didn't match her expectations at all.
When she ordered a custom wedding gown, her gown nightmare started.
There was a time when Pepa was discouraged with trying on dresses.
She told Insider that she didn't try on fit or feel confident.
A friend showedPepa a custom gown that a designer had made for her. She said it felt like a no-brainer at that time.
She had already fallen in love with the gown.
The reason I didn't order the dress from him is that he works overseas and I was worried that the dress wouldn't look right in the picture.
Instead, she paid $7,000 for a replica of her friend's dress.
When she saw the dress for the second time, she was horrified.
The designer assured her it wouldn't look like the dress she tried on. She told viewers there were no questions. It was only the second time she'd tried on her wedding dress that the designer asked for her final fitting to be pushed back.
In her TikTok,Pepa described the dress she pulled on in her final fitting as a "literal nightmare."
She told Insider that she was really embarrassed.
In a note sent to the designer, she mentioned that the designer told her that the see-through neckline would make her look bigger because of her large chest. In a November 22 TikTok,Pepa said that the comment was not good for her body dysmorphia.
She didn't think the gown was well-constructed and it didn't look like what she wanted.
With two months to go before her wedding, she started hyperventilating.
"I kept trying to think of ways we could fix it, and I tried relaying my thoughts to the designer, but she walked away, saying she wouldn't be listening to my attitude."
Initially, she said her friends and family supported her. She said that she and the designer had an argument. Everyone showed their opinions and gave reasons as to why the dress was so bad.
After telling the designer that she wouldn't be wearing the gown to her wedding, she followed up with a text to restate.
"That is a sad excuse of a wedding dress, with endless design flaws regardless if it matched what I initially asked you to recreate," she wrote in the message. My dress alone is an embarrassment for both of us.
"You yelled that the dress I showed you was actually just used as inspiration, and that's what I said," she said. When were you going to tell me that it was not possible?
She said she was fine with changing the vision of the dress if it was hard. It's up to you to acknowledge the extent of your capabilities and to communicate them to your client.
The full note can be seen in the picture.
With ten weeks to go before her wedding,Pepa started her wedding dress search again.
She went back to the drawing board two days later and found two dresses, one of which she wore on her wedding day.
All in,Pepa's new dresses ended up costing her twice the amount of the custom-made gown, due to intense, short-notice alterations.
It was in the beginning, according to Pepa. The way the designer carried herself and how she handled the situation made me angry.
She said her loved ones kept her spirits up. "My mom is my saving grace, I still have thousands of dresses to try," saidPepa. Her then-fiancé, Jandovitz, drove her and her bridesmaids to a new wedding-dress shop and waited in the car for three hours if I needed him.
The person thinks that everything happens for a reason.
She said she would get a full refund for the dress. She thinks that everything does happen for a reason.
"Thanks to God, I got the new dresses, I look at my wedding photos now and I'm happy," she said.
She said the dresses weren't what she wanted. I didn't want to get a ball gown because I didn't think the fit did anything for my figure, but I ended up getting a strapless ball gown.
She said it was as dramatic as it sounded. After this chaotic situation, I believe in divine intervention.
The wedding went off without a hitch according to the bride.
She feels like not many people get to say that. "But the wedding went so smoothly, everything felt like a dream and I had no idea that was possible with a wedding as large as ours."
It was a good private joke. "In the back of my mind, I had a good laugh when I thought about how people would react if I wore the original dress," she said.
It's made for a pretty fun public one with the story that's gone viral on TikTok. Commenters have sympathized withPepa and joked with her about the stress she was under.
Pepa recommends doing a lot of research for other brides.
She said that she learned the hard way. It's important to feel confident when you wear your dress.
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