Whatever can go wrong will go wrong — especially the day before a wedding.
A New Jersey family is praising airport security employees after the bride’s mother boarded a flight to Columbus, Ohio, but left behind the wedding dress and her own gown at the security checkpoint.
The misadventure at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport happened one day before the vows, however, the quick actions by Transportation Security Administration workers “literally saved my sister’s wedding,” Christopher Cepeda said.
The mother of the bride got on the flight earlier this month after clearing security, but she forgot to grab the red roller holding the dresses, according to The Associated Press.
When the woman realized the bag was missing, it was already too late.
While family members thought of a backup plan, Cepeda said he filled out an online lost-and-found form with the airline, but the website indicated the response time would be about five days.
“As soon as I submitted the request, we lost hope of retrieving the luggage on time for the wedding,” Cepeda said.
As luck would have it, TSA administrative assistant Loletta Nathan-Gordon noticed Cepeda’s email right away and found the bag within six minutes, the TSA said.
Nathan-Gordon later said she put herself in the bride’s shoes.
“I could only imagine how stressful that would have been for me if my mom would have left the dress behind. I would have freaked out,” she said.
Cepeda then paid to ship the bag overnight, and it arrived in time for his sister to walk down the aisle.
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