MT. LEBANON, Pa. — The Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh is once again allowing weddings during the COVID-19 pandemic, but brides may have a hard time affording a dress -- if they can even find one.
Currently, 75% of wedding dresses are made overseas.
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Most brides had no idea where their dress was coming from until the coronavirus caused delays in shipment.
"That's when girls started calling and saying, ‘Is my dress stateside, is my dress stateside?’ No, it's coming from China," said Greg Cherico, owner of Anne Gregory Couture in Mount Lebanon.
Cherico told Channel 11 it's caused some to worry.
But the Mount Lebanon designer has come up with a way to ease a bride's mind.
"We have our own dressmaker here that's a graduate of FIT – a pattern maker, a dress maker. So, with my design expertise and hers, we've come up with our own collection of dresses," Cherico said.
Watch the video above for more on what local brides are doing.
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