Attention Alfred Angelo Customers 
 
 We know how much goes into planning a wedding, and we're happy to help those affected by Alfred Angelo's store closures. With dream wedding dresses for every style, size, and budget, plus bridesmaid dresses in sizes 0–30, David's Bridal can ensure that every bride has the wedding of her dreams. ||||| In a business collapse that disrupted wedding plans nationwide, dressmaker Alfred Angelo Bridal closed its doors and filed to liquidate its operations in bankruptcy court in West Palm Beach on Friday after failing to find a buyer for the company. 
 
 The shutdown left brides-to-be across the country locked out and with little information about their time-sensitive wedding purchases. A lawyer for a Miami law firm retained to manage the case said she will work with a court-appointed trustee to release bridal dresses being held by the stores, which closed Thursday. 
 
 Patricia Redmond of Stearns Weaver Miller, Weissler Alhadoff & Sitterson, said in a telephone interview she had received more than 3,500 emails from panicked brides. 
 
 Alfred Angelo operated at least 60 locations in the U.S., and maintained stores in Canada, Europe and Japan. Its dresses were placed with 1,400 retailers worldwide. 
 
 In South Florida, its stores in Boynton Beach, Sunrise and Coral Gables are all closed. The headquarters offices at 1625 S. Congress Ave. in Delray Beach are also shut. 
 
 All of the stores posted “closed” signs, directing customers to contact Stearns, Weaver via email at predmond@stearnsweaver.com for more information. 
 
 Misty-eyed Yadira Castro, 27, was one of the brides seeking answers. Standing outside Alfred Angelo’s Boynton Beach store on Friday, she was desperate to learn about her wedding dress. Her wedding is a week from Saturday. 
 
 “I don’t have the money to buy a new dress. I have no time to buy a new dress,” said Castro, showing a picture of the Disney character Princess Jasmine-inspired dress she had purchased from Alfred Angelo for more than $800. With veil and accessories, she has nearly $1,250 invested in wedding attire at the store, she said. 
 
 Castro is among countless brides and bridesmaids who are scrambling after the Delray Beach-based wedding dress company closed its doors. There were reports from multiple cities of brides appearing at stores to pick up their wedding gowns, only to find the locations closed. 
 
 Redmond said she will ask a court-appointed trustee for the case to release dresses being held in the stores awaiting pickup by brides-to-be, and will do her best to persuade the trustee to release a $1.2 million shipment coming from China, so brides can receive the dresses they ordered. 
 
 All told, the business filed voluntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy petitions for nearly 20 related companies in the U.S. and abroad. Top creditors of Alfred Angelo, the main company, are Czech Asset Management of Connecticut, a portfolio company, for $54 million; and CardConnect, a credit card processor for up to $5 million, Redmond said. After that, there will likely be dress manufacturers in China filing claims, she said. 
 
 The cases are assigned to U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Paul Hyman in West Palm Beach. 
 
 Alfred Angelo’s board of directors met July 10 by telephone to authorize the bankruptcy filings and to retain Stearns Weaver Miller, court documents show. 
 
 The business started more than 80 years ago by Alfred Angelo Piccione and Edythe Vincent Piccione, according to the corporate history on the company’s website. 
 
 Alfred Angelo’s current CEO is Richard Anders, named in 2016. He could not be reached for comment on Friday. Anders previously was president of retail at Nautica, a brand of VF Corp., and held positions before that at J. Crew and Old Navy, according a January 2016 story in the Sun Sentinel. He joined Alfred Angelo in 2014. 
 
 In Coral Gables, bride-to-be Jessica Ringler whose Disney Belle dress, veil and belt were inside the store, stood outside the store Friday morning seeking any information. “It just sucks. I don’t even understand what happened,” said Ringler, 33, who ordered the $2,500 dress in March for her wedding next February. “It’s beautiful...It was supposed to be my dream dress,” she said. 
 
 Ringler said “it would have been nice if they had given some kind of heads up. Now I can’t get my dress. This is somebody’s future.” 
 
 Alfred Angelo’s store on Miracle Mile is a prime destination for brides-to-be, along with other bridal and wedding-related stores. 
 
 Nora Ares, an employee at nearby Bijou Bridal & Special Occasion store, said she would often refer customers to Alfred Angelo. “You would never think that something so drastic would happen to a chain like that,” she said. “It’s going to be devastating for those brides.” 
 
 Chris Phillips of Boynton Beach arrived at the local Alfred Angelo store to check on the news for his son, whose wedding party has bridesmaid dresses at the store. His son, 25, is scheduled to get married in September. 
 
 Phillips was on his cellphone telling family members it was time to shop elsewhere. “It’s a done deal,” he said, adding that he is concerned about finding new dresses in time. David’s Bridal had told the family they were too late when they went shopping a few months ago. 
 
 But the family may get a reprieve. 
 
 On Friday, David’s Bridal tweeted that it was offering discounts to brides-to-be who have been impacted by the Alfredo Angelo closings. David’s Bridal said it will offer a 30 percent discounts on replacement wedding gowns to those with an Alfred Angelo receipt and 20 percent discounts for bridesmaid dresses. It also said it is waiving rush fees on alterations for those with wedding dates around the corner. 
 
 In Sunrise, the David’s Bridal shop at 12605 Sunrise Blvd. took a higher than usual volume of calls, many from affected Alfred Angelo customers in search of replacement wedding or bridesmaid dresses, said store manager Heather Dadic. 
 
 Bridal apparel and formal dress retailer Camille La Vie, which has South Florida outposts in Sunrise, Pembroke Pines and Doral is also offering discounts to help displaced Alfred Angelo customers. 
 
 “We are happy to accommodate those brides/bridesmaids affected by the @AlfredAngelo closing with a discount. Visit stores for assistance!,” Camille La Vie said in a tweet around 2:30 p.m. Friday via Twitter. 
 
 The news of Alfredo Angelo’s closing was upsetting to wedding planners as well. 
 
 “Those poor brides,” said Carmen Mesa, a master wedding planner for the Association of Bridal Consultants in Cooper City. “You hear sometimes about venues closing, but I have not heard of a national bridal chain this huge closing and leaving people in the lurch. It breaks my heart that these people are not going to get their gowns in time.” 
 
 Other bridal salons are trying to step in to help, she said. ||||| A private company based in Delray Beach, Fla., Alfred Angelo sold its dresses at 1,400 other retailers, in addition to operating its own stores, according to its website. Like other bridal companies, it has faced pressure from bridal fashion start-ups and traditional retailers pushing low prices. In its bankruptcy filing, the company said it had no more than $50,000 in assets, but more than $50 million in liabilities. 
 
 Competitors were rushing to capitalize on the company’s demise. David’s Bridal offered discounts to Alfred Angelo customers if they can show a receipt from the store, as well as free rushed alterations. 
 
 Alfred Angelo’s failure led Alex Pacifico and her co-workers at the company’s bridal store near Dayton, Ohio, to spend Thursday essentially running a guerrilla retail operation. They scrambled to get customers gowns they had ordered and told customers to take sample items they had on hand. 
 
 “If we had what customers needed in the store, they were more than welcome to take it with them,” she said. 
 
 But other brides-to-be and members of their wedding parties were not so lucky. 
 
 Christine Danielle, who also lives in Houston, ordered a dress from the bridal retailer in May to wear to a wedding. As of Friday afternoon, she had been unable to figure out where the $195 dress was. 
 
 “There’s no dress in sight, no refund in sight,” Ms. Danielle said. 
 
 Along with the brides, employees at Alfred Angelo were also left in the lurch. Pacifico worried that she would not get paid for hours worked this week and will lose out on sales commissions. 
 
 She said the closing left some customers angry, blaming the workers for the situation. The employees at the Dayton store worked for about 12 hours that day — for no pay — trying to help customers, Ms. Pacifico said. ||||| Add this Tweet to your website by copying the code below. Saber máis 
 
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– Wedding dress retailer Alfred Angelo shuttered stores nationwide on Friday, sending brides-to-be into a panic. The Sun Sentinel reports the Florida-based company filed for bankruptcy protection after failing to find a buyer. The chain has at least 60 shops in the US, and its dresses are sold in more than 1,400 spots worldwide. Little information was available for angry brides who vented on social media after finding they were shut out of shops holding their gowns. "I'm glad orange is my wedding color because I'm gonna be married in jail if I can't get my dresses," one woman tweeted. Alfred Angelo hasn’t commented, but company lawyer Patricia Redmond tells the Sun Sentinel she has been bombed with more than 3,500 emails from worried brides. Redmond says the chain will work with a court-appointed trustee to release all the gowns in the shops. With her wedding a week away, Yadira Castro, 27, was no doubt hoping that was the case. "I don’t have the money to buy a new dress," she tells the newspaper, after paying $1,200 for an ensemble featuring a gown inspired by the Disney character Princess Jasmine. Some customers blamed Alfred Angelo workers for not being honest, but one mother tells the New York Times an employee in the Houston shop found her daughter’s dress and "gave us one hour" to pick it up Friday morning. "We have a happy ending," she says. Meanwhile, competitors liked David's Bridal rushed to offer discounts and alterations for betrayed brides and bridesmaids. (This wedding registry is not for everyone.)