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YESS! Antique wedding dress missing since October FOUND

The Newall and Gammell family will no doubt be spending the rest of the week celebrating after their missing 150-year-old wedding dress was finally returned. 

Tess Newall wore the now famous dress to her wedding last June – a dress her very own great-great grandmother wore to her own nuptials in 1870.

However, the vintage gown went missing after Tess took it to Kleen Cleaners in Edinburgh that September; a month later the shop closed down.

After realising that her dress was gone, the 29-year-old took to Facebook, pleading with the public to help her find it. 

"I have just found out that the dry cleaners have lost my much loved wedding dress. It was made by my Great Great Granny in 1870 (I altered the top) and I wore it in June 2016," she explained in the post.

"Kleen Cleaners in Edinburgh used to be the best but recently fell into crooked hands and have gone into liquidation. It seems that the dress was taken to be sold so it could be winging its way anywhere.

"Please share this far and wide in case anyone stumbles across it! I realise there are far greater issues in the world but it means the world to us. More family memories need to be woven into its threads."

But in a stroke of good luck, the landlord of the property spotted her post and went to the shop to check, despite the administrators Wylie & Bisset saying it was "disposed of". 

"My mum and dad have just been let into the shop and to their amazement and joy it is our dress!" she wrote on Friday. 

Talking to the BBC about the wonderful find, Tess' dad, Patrick, said that his wife will be cleaning the dress herself from now on. 

"We are thrilled finally to have my wife's family's wedding dress back safely in our hands.

"We are petrified to let it out of our sight now." 

We love a happy ending, and that dress… Just wow.

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