Mom Dumpster Dives to Recover Daughter's Oscar de la Renta Wedding Dress
LatestThis is a tale of maternal love—in all of its shades of truly obsessive commitment—embodied here by New York mother Lucinda Ballard. This is the tale of a woman who loves her child so much that she searched through a New Jersey garbage dump to recover her daughter’s $4,000 Oscar de la Renta wedding dress.
The dress, which the New York Post describes as a “spectacular white-tulle embroidered A-line gown,” was worn by Ballard’s daughter (also named Lucinda) at her Nantucket wedding on May 30. After the very expensive nuptials, the dress was packed up and sent back to her parents’ house. They were supposed to care for the dress, to love it as they had loved their daughter
The Post reports:
In the chaos of getting their bags into the Upper East Side apartment, a handyman accidentally threw out the gown, mistaking the word “dress” for “trash,” she said.
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The mom Ballard called it “a totally understandable, forgivable human error” but admitted she “was horrified.”
“How could I let this happen?” she said. But the mom, a volunteer tour guide at the Met Museum, wasn’t about to give up. “I thought, ‘This dress is a symbol of a beautiful love story. I can’t get let it go to garbage heaven,’” she told The Post.
Catastrophe, indeed.