Lost Wedding Dress: Australian Student Sells Chocolates To Replace Dress

The Unusual Thing One Bride Is Doing To Pay For Her Dress

One bride's December wedding will be bittersweet.

An Australian college student is selling chocolates to raise money for a new wedding dress, reports the Knox Leader.

Twenty-one-year-old Rebekkah Brookes wanted to walk down the aisle in the gown she wore to her debutante ball, and she left the dress with a bridal boutique in Mitcham, Australia about six weeks ago to have it altered.

But the store has since closed up shop, and all of its merchandise -- including Brookes' dress -- has gone with it.

The bride-to-be and her fiance, Sean Wilde, purchased a new $1,300 gown with a credit card in preparation for their December 1 wedding. To help pay off the dress, Brookes has been going door-to-door selling chocolates.

Brookes isn't the first Aussie to lose her wedding gown. Australian supermodel Miranda Kerr's dress was misplaced on an American Airlines flight in 2010.

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