The marriage is off, the dress has been spray painted

Fox 9 uncovered a fascinating story about an Edina bridal shop that closed, and destroyed its wedding dresses with spray paint, leaving wedding-gown experts aghast.

It would be fitting if wearing wedding dresses spray-painted with red X’s suddenly came into style.

Priscilla of Boston Wedding Dresses Destroyed in Dumpster: MyFoxTWINCITIES.com

Priscilla of Boston became a prominent wedding gown retailer after it made the wedding dress of Grace Kelly. There are 18 other stores around the country that also closed. But, so far, the Twin Cities location appears to be the only one where it’s confirmed the dresses were destroyed..

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Bob Collins

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Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.