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Bride-To-Be Leaves Wedding Dress in New York Taxi

Aired August 03, 2001 - 07:56   ET

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CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: There is a frantic search under way in New York City to help a couple with their wedding plans.

COLLEEN MCEDWARDS, CNN ANCHOR: That's right. It's all about a very important dress -- you got it, the dress.

Marcella Palmer of CNN affiliate WCBS caught up with the couple this week.

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MARCELLA PALMER, WCBS-TV REPORTER (voice-over): Blushing bride Dorit Meyer is blushing more than usual these days. She flew almost 4,000 miles from her Hamburg, Germany, home to New York two days ago, one-of-a-kind wedding gown in hand. That is, until she got into a New York taxi.

DORIT MEYER, BRIDE-TO-BE: I had a flight after me, like a long flight, and I had jet lag and then I was going in the cab and I don't know. It was -- everything was like crazy and then I was -- I was -- took the money out and then I forgot my dress.

PALMER (on camera): The cab pulled up here in front of Meyer's fiance's Brooklyn home on Tuesday night. Excited to see her husband- to-be, she jumped out of the cab to greet him, only she left the wedding dress behind.

(voice-over): Original dress or not, at the end of the month, 34-year-old Dorit will marry James Cashin in a Manhattan ceremony.

JAMES CASHIN, HUSBAND-TO-BE: And I hadn't seen her for a month. This month is our wedding so she's very excited and by the time we realized the dress was gone, he was like literally down the block.

PALMER: Dorit bought the unique $1,500 wedding dress in a boutique in Germany, champagne in color with chiffon sleeves. Dorit says the dress was a perfect fit for her.

MEYER: I saw this dress and I put this on and it was just my dress. I mean everybody was saying this in the store, like, wow, that's your dress.

PALMER: Several taxi and transportation organizations are combing the city to find the dress. The TLC says it's having a tough time. It would have been easy to track the cab down if they had a receipt to work from.

MATTHEW DAUS, TAXI AND LIMO COMMISSION: We're working in conjunction with the industry. Three groups in the industry that are working on finding it as well as the port authority, which is going manually through all of the receipts at the airport at the terminal to try to find the dress.

PALMER: If they can't find the dress, the Metropolitan Taxi Cab Board of Trade has made a generous offer to replace it, an offer the couple is happy to accept, but of course, they'd rather have the original back.

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LIN: That was Marcella Palmer of WCBS and one for the tourists board there.

MCEDWARDS: That's for sure.

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