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CBC
a day ago
- Entertainment
- CBC
Woman reunites with 'priceless' wedding dress after mom accidentally donates it to yard sale
A Windsor woman has been reunited with her wedding dress after her mom accidentally donated the lacy gown and a shopper snapped it up at a recent yard sale. Renee Lounsbury says her sparkly, corset-top dress, which she wore to her wedding in 2018, cost around $1,300 new. It was her "dream dress for that day." "Definitely wasn't something I would typically pick out," she told Windsor Morning's Amy Dodge on Thursday. "But once I put it on, it fit me perfectly, and I fell in love with it very quickly." The bridal blunder began last week, when the Sun Parlour Curling Club hosted its annual yard sale in Leamington, Ont. Lounsbury's mom, Daphne Derbyshire, had donated several items she had been collecting for the sale — and had kept them in the same bedroom where Lounsbury's dress was stored. "Unfortunately, she thought the box the dress was in was her dress, so she kind of just pushed it into the pile," Lounsbury said. It wasn't until after Saturday's sale was over that her mom realized what she'd done, Lounsbury said. Sometime after 10 p.m., she called her daughter in a panic. "She was frantic, crying, cussing, 'I'm sorry,' and I was like, 'What is going on?'" Lounsbury said. She thought something terrible had happened, such as a death. Then, her mom revealed the news: "I sold your wedding dress." "I'm like, 'What are you talking about?'" Lounsbury said. Her mom explained what had happened. Lounsbury said it was an "oh no" moment for her, but that she also wanted to console her mom. "It's just a dress," she said, adding that she has many photos and memories of her wedding day. Still, Lounsbury wanted to get it back. She told her mom to reach out to the curling club to make a public appeal for the dress, which they did the next day. "We realize this is a shot in the dark, but we have to try!" the club said in a Facebook post. From there, the community worked its magic. The post travelled across social media, garnering nearly 200 shares on Facebook alone. "It was crazy seeing all the nice comments, and the people offering to help and wishing me well," Lounsbury said. Some people even offered to give their dresses to whomever bought Lounsbury's dress so the person would still have something to wear on their big day. By Tuesday, the dress had been found. The woman who bought the gown had seen one of the posts and reached out to Lounsbury. "And then my mom was able to go pick up my dress and the lady was more than happy to give it back," she said. 16 years after her wedding, this Guelph woman opens package with gown to find it's not hers It's unclear how much the woman paid for the dress at the yard sale, but she refused to take any money for it. "She was very kind, she didn't ask for anything in return, she just wanted me to get my dress back," Lounsbury said. To Lounsbury, though, the dress will always be "priceless." "It's something you wore on one of the most special days of your life, so it was nice to get it back at no cost," she said. The next step will be getting the dress resealed in the box, Lounsbury said, and storing it at her mom's house again. She said that after all that, she's confident the dress is now safe — and maybe, down the road, her own daughter will want to try it on.
News.com.au
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
Lady Frederick Windsor spills ‘disgusting' detail about her royal wedding
'Disgusting'. That's not a word you hear too often when it comes to the royal family unless it's some anonymous Windsor source huffing down a Bakelite phone about Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's latest home shopping network juicer side-hustle. That or someone has left oat milk in the palace fridge again. But not today with a royal bride having come out and given a shockingly (and wonderfully) candid interview, revealing she didn't pick out her own wedding dress, knew very few people at the reception and even admitting that there was one detail she found 'disgusting'. Everyone say a polite hello to Sophie Winkleman who is also Lady Frederick Windsor and while she might not be a household name in Australia, she is very much between the royal bosom. Back before it was restricted to working members of the royal maily, she used to be able to be spotted the Buckingham Palace balcony, and these days you are likely to spy her having a jolly old time of it with 'dear friend' King Charles in the royal box at Ascot or doing her bit to support Kate, The Princess of Wales' annual Christmas concert. Extra points if you knew her daughter Maud Windsor used to be in the same London class as Prince George and was a bridesmaid at Princess Eugenie's wedding. Specifically, Sophie is married to Lord Frederick Windsor, the son of Prince and Princess Micahel of Kent and the King's second cousin, and while Freddie is so far down the line of succession you have to squint at number 54 but still, the couple are very much in the titled thick of it. (Lord Frederick was 17th in line when he was born.) This week Sophie, who also happens to be a working actress, has given a new interview and admitted some wonderfully indiscrete details about her own royal wedding. The year was 2009, long before the les Windosrs would 'welcome' another TV gal into their midst, and with Prince William yet to pop the question to long time squeeze Kate Middleton, what the UK needed was a royal wedding. A guest list was assembled about the length of an abridged copy of Burke & Peerage, Hampton Court Palace was rightfully booked for the affair and various HRHs were assembled (Princess Eugenie, the Duke and Duchess of Kent). However now Sophie has admitted that there was a part of the day she found 'disgusting'. Speaking to the Telegraph this week she said: 'It was such a blur because we had to move to Los Angeles the day after and I had to start a brand new job the day after that…I'd been so concentrating on the work that I hadn't thought about the wedding.' Enter unto the breach her future mother-in-law and longtime Buckingham Palace balcony stalwart Princess Michael of Kent who 'sort of took it all over,' said Sophie. 'I actually didn't mind at all. I thought, 'Great, do everything''. The end result, based on photos, is of a frou-frou-y affair that even diehard Cinderella-stans might have considered OTT; 'fairytale' was never going to be used as an adjective. In the cold light of 2025, Sophie does not sound exactly enamoured of all that bugle-beaded 'everything'. 'My hair was so disgusting and Freddy still gets upset about it. It was just disgusting. And my mother-in-law chose my dress, which was very sweet and puffy, but I looked barking,' she told the Telegraph. 'I look back on it and think I should have worn a simpler dress and I should have got my hair blow dried by someone who'd done it before'. This is not the first time that deliciously unfiltered Sophie has pulled back the curtain on her Windsor nuptials and what goes into planning a royal hitchin'. 'I didn't know anyone at my wedding. I had my best pals there but basically it was full of faces I'd never seen before,' she told Tatler in December last year. During that same interview she enthused about Princess Michael having 'brilliantly' 'taken full personal charge' of the 400-person event and said, 'I was so determined not to be a bridezilla, I didn't even work out my hairstyle and I cannot tell you how disgusting it looked.' Coming up the aisle, the first thing I said when I saw Freddie was, 'I'm so sorry about the hair.'' He said, 'Yes, what on earth have you done?'' While the Sussexes have hardly been tight-lipped about what a rough trot Meghan had joining Crown Inc, Sophie has only ever raved about her extended in-laws. She told Tatler last year: 'Behind the camera they're really fun, clever, kind people...I love Catherine and William, but they're so busy and don't live in London, so I don't see them much.' Meanwhile, Charles 'is a very dear friend'. 'I spend a bit of time with him,' she told the Times in 2020. 'You see how he works all day long, has a quick supper and then disappears until about 4am to write letters. 'He cares about so many things and he comes up with brilliant solutions. 'I've been incredibly welcomed with open arms by all of them. I haven't had a single negative experience. 'They'd never tell me off at all if I wanted to play some [racy] role. Everyone's looked after me.' And she means that quite literally. The late Queen and Charles both offered practical support after Sophie broke her back in a 2017 car crash during she thought she was 'a goner'. After the accident, Charles (then the Prince of Wales) tasked his Clarence House cook to provide Freddie and Sophie's family with twice-a-day meals, 'for weeks on end . . . It was life saving'. Then, during her recuperation, Queen Elizabeth suggested a solution to help her manage the pain of rehab. As Sophie told Tatler: 'She said, 'We can't have that. You have to go in the water.' She told us that when horses had broken backs, they swam, and so she let me use her pool at Buckingham Palace. 'That's the reason I got better. It was so typically thoughtful.' Blimey. The Palace pool. 'Disgusting' hair. Looking 'barking'. It would be remiss of me here to not play a quick game of Sussex Subbing. What if all of this had come out of Meghan's mouth instead? Imagine a lit match going off in a fireworks factory built on top of an oil refinery. Kablooey. There is a lesson in all of this for any Cinderella-ish aspirants. Don't overlook the very clear benefits to being wed to No. 54 rather than anyone in the single digits, of marrying far farther down the royal rung. Just think, all the invitations to Ascot and Westminster Abbey, none of wing-clipping self sacrifices of senior royaldom and the occasional chance to do a lap in the palace pool. Daniela Elser is a writer, editor and commentator with more than 15 years' experience working with a number of Australia's leading media titles.
Washington Post
3 days ago
- Business
- Washington Post
Planning a wedding is stressful. Couples and vendors now have to factor in tariffs
NEW YORK — Krista Vasquez had her heart set on getting married in a body-hugging, halter-style gown from Spain. In April, the Atlanta paramedic learned her dream dress would cost nearly $300 more because of new U.S. tariffs on imported goods. With little wiggle room in her timing, the bride-to-be quickly checked around for similar styles. The story was the same: any dresses from Europe would come with tariff-driven price increases ranging from $150 to $400. And that was before President Donald Trump said he would increase the tariff on goods produced in the European Union from 10% to 50%.
Daily Mail
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Demi Lovato fans spot striking similarity between her and Miley Cyrus' weddings
Demi Lovato and Miley Cyrus both grew up working on the Disney Channel - and their bond now goes further than their childhood sitcom days. Fans noticed a striking resemblance between their wedding gowns, with both appearing to wear the same off-the-shoulder Vivienne Westwood dress for their nuptials. Lovato, 32, tied the the knot with singer-songwriter Jordan 'Jutes' Lutes on Sunday in Southern California, wearing a custom pearl white gown featuring a corset waist and draped skirt. Cyrus, 32, wore a strikingly similar dress when she married Liam Hemsworth in December 2018. The singer's version featured a similar whimsical neckline, but opted for a bone color rather than the brighter white that Lovato wore. Both women looked stunning in their chosen gowns, with fans taking to social media to talk about the similarities - with some pointing out Lovato and Cyrus have famously had an on-again, off-again friendship over the years. 'Demi Lovato wore the same wedding dress as Miley for her wedding omg?' one stunned user posted to X, formerly known as Twitter. 'Demi's dress reminds me of Miley's,' shared another. 'Wow, Demi Lovato and Miley Cyrus rocking similar Vivienne Westwood wedding dresses is such a cool Disney Channel throwback!' another gushed. 'What do you mean Demi has worn an almost if not identical Vivienne Westwood wedding dress to Miley's in 2018,' another said. Others defended Lovato, pointing out it's one of the late British designer's famous silhouettes and is loved by brides worldwide. 'Demi and Miley are both grown women and we are not little girls arguing in middle school. We don't care if Miley wore the dress first. They look stunning,' one fan chimed in. Someone else pointed out Lovato wore a dress by the designer in 2014 on X-Factor in London. 'The same designer with the same signature styling. Demi did it before, keeps choosing this all the time if you ever seen the things they wear,' they wrote. 'Demi's only copying herself. And I can't believe we're talking about dresses, like there's not wedding dresses that look similar.' Lovato told Vogue she has been a fan Vivienne Westwood's designs for a 'long time.' 'I love everything about the dress,' she told the publication. Both women looked stunning in their chosen gowns, with fans taking to social media to talk about the similar gowns - with some pointing out Lovato and Cyrus have famously had an on-again, off-again friendship over the years Cyrus and Lovato both shot to fame as teens on the Disney Channel but had a fraught relationship at times. The duo have candidly spoken about their on-off friendship through the years. They appeared to have rekindled their relationship in 2020 during an Instagram Live chat as apart of an afternoon talk show on Cyrus' Instagram, called Bright Minded: Live With Miley. 'Life is moving so fast that it's usually hard to slow ourselves down and appreciate people in our lives, and you've been that person for me for so many years and we've been friends for so long,' Cyrus told Lovato at the time as per People. She added, 'We can not talk forever and then some bulls**t will go down, and I'll just know you're the person I want to reach out to. In dark times, it's really important to reach towards those who are illuminated. I just think that you're such a light — even if it took this crisis to get us connected again.' Cyrus and Hemsworth had been dating on and off since 2010, when they met on the set of the Nicholas Sparks adaptation The Last Song. They were initially engaged in June 2012, but they called it off in September 2013, before rumors stemmed in January 2016 the engagement was back on. Cyrus confirmed they were engaged during an October 2016 appearance on the Ellen show, and they were married on December 23, 2018 at their home in Franklin, Tennessee. She was married to Hemsworth for eight months, with the pair filing for divorce in August 2019.
The Sun
4 days ago
- General
- The Sun
The old wives tale that will instantly get rid of sweaty smells on your clothes and ‘works a treat'
THERE'S nothing worse than pulling out an outfit and realising that there is a smell of sweat lingering on the fabric. There are so many reasons that this can happen - for example, some materials can't be washed, and therefore it's harder to remove bacteria that can transfer into the clothes. 2 Or if you've bought an outfit off a hanger, then lingering sweat, skin oils, and bacteria can accumulate on it. Even hanging up clothes that have not completely dried in tight spaces like wardrobes, which aren't well ventilated, can leave a lingering odour. Luckily, there's a handy old wives' trick that can quickly get rid of this issue, and fashion fans swear it "works a treat". People have been sharing the top tip on social media after a woman pleaded for help to get a lingering sweat smell off her wedding dress. Posting on the Wedding DIY UK Facebook group, which boasts 162,400 members, one woman explained she bought her dress off the hanger. But she revealed that after putting her dress in a bag and leaving it in her wardrobe, she pulled it out the night before her big day and realised there was a strong odour coming from it. Looking for a quick fix, she posted: "I've just got my dress out of the bag and it smells of stale sweat... I get married tomorrow. "How do I get rid of this! Please help". Fashionistas were quick to flock to the comments to share an old wives' tale that works well in taking away the smell. They explained that creating a mixture of vodka and water is the perfect solution and works on all types of fabric. Stacey Solomon shares 3p way to clean your windows which doesn't leave any smears & you may already have it at home All you need to do is fill half of a spray bottle with vodka and top up the other half with water, and mix or shake it thoroughly. Then just spray the mixture onto the affected clothes and wait for it to work. Users explained that it "works a treat" on everything from wedding dresses to clothes. And many revealed it is also an old theatre hack that is often used when certain costumes can't be washed due to the fabric. One person even said that it works when it comes to collecting and selling vintage clothes. Posting in the comments, a user said: "There's the traditional customer trick of a bottle of half cheap vodka and half water sprayed onto the dress". Another added: "Spray it with vodka. It's an old theatre trick. Some costumes can't be washed so they spray them with vodka and it works a treat". Someone else wrote: "I've heard vintage resellers talking about using vodka to get rid of any smells". And a fourth shared: "50/50 vodka and water misted on and left to dry. Did this for many years in the theatre." And a fifth chimed in: "I've heard using vodka is good". So, how does it work? If you are a little sceptical about this trick, you're not alone. But vodka, as it turns out, is actually the perfect odour remover for anything that can't be washed. This is because vodka itself is odourless and colourless, and it even has a sanitising effect. What else can vodka clean? IT'S not just clothes that vodka can remove smells from. Many homeowners actually use it on their furniture, like their sofas, curtains and mattresses. Surfaces like these may seem impossible to clean because they're so large and can't always be put in the washing machine, but using this trick routinely can keep them fresh and get rid of unwanted smells. Using vodka is an easy way to make sure that items you don't want to put in your washing machine can last longer. And it also works wonders for deodorising well-worn shoes! Martha Stewart is known for using this hack to keep her boots and shoes fresh and actually shared a video with followers on Instagram. In the clip, she sprayed a pair of boots in her hallway and said, "Say goodbye to musty smells". It works because it has a high alcohol content, which kills germs and bacteria, and as you spray it over your clothes, the alcohol surrounds the smelly molecules that are clinging to the material. As the spray begins to dry, the vodka evaporates, taking the unwanted smell with it, so by the time it is completely dry, the odour has vanished. It's not just sweaty smells that this hack can be used for - the high alcohol content is also strong enough to remove food smells, to even cigarette smoke. But before you try this, it's important to make sure you have the right kind of vodka. It needs to be an unflavoured and colourless bottle, otherwise it will leave marks on the clothes, and they could end up sticky. The quality doesn't matter, however, so feel free to use the cheapest vodka you have since you're only using it to clean! If you're buying a new bottle, then take a quick look for the cheapest ones with the highest levels of alcohol content. Then just spray the fabric with the drink - but make sure you don't leave it soaking wet - and let it work its magic. 2
