NJ bride issues public plea after her dream wedding dress – worn by her mother in 1994 – has gone missing

The situation shook everyone.

A New Jersey bride-to-be is feeling blue after discovering her mother’s wedding dress — the one she was hoping to marry in — was swapped for a stranger years ago.

“My mother has kept this for 30 years, and it’s not her dress,” said bride-to-be Samantha Pereira on an SOS social network.

“My mom — she always wanted to see me in her wedding dress,” the Garden State girl told her followers.

Pereira assumed the drama began when her mother Christina, of Union, NJ, took the dress to the now-defunct East Side Cleaners in Newark for safekeeping. While there, the dress was altered or mislabeled and delivered to the wrong owner.

The Post has contacted Pereira for comment.

“If anyone recognizes that dress, we would like to return it to its rightful owner,” Samantha, who now lives in Maryland, told NJ Advance Media ahead of her planned July 2025 ceremony.

“If we can’t get our dress back, I would hate for anyone else to feel the way we did, knowing we were missing a dress,” she said.

With the cleaners now closed, the social media broadcast is the family’s latest attempt to try and right the proverbial ship.

“This happened to me! And I found my dress! And the lady returned her dress too,” one woman optimistically commented on the viral video, which now has close to 780,000 views.

Many others were eager to jump in with creative alternatives.

“If you can’t find your mother…mine is almost the same as your mother and you are welcome to her!!!” a good bride is offered.

“I’m from NJ and my [mom’s] the wedding dress is the same as your mother’s actual dress. maybe if all else fails my mom would give you hers,” another viewer added.

Meanwhile, a woman vacationing in Europe said she had her doubts about her stored dress and promised to investigate upon her return, according to NJ.com.

In a follow-up video, another woman said she was going to check hers too, as it was the same style as the dress that disappeared without a trace.

“It was just like a dream to wear your mother’s wedding dress during the wedding,” said Pereira.

“But I never got that chance to do that.”