Can I be sued for adjusting friends wedding dress?

[Indulgingmum]

I have a "friend" haven't seen her for few years we drifted apart. Her wedding has been cancelled twice once with Covid and once with her mother's sudden death.

Her original dress is toooooo big now she's lost loads of weight.

She contacted me
Out of the blue to ask would I take up her new dress as she hadn't time to get a dressmaker because they are eloping.

I make my own clothes so it's something I am
Able to do. I said yes if you're in a fix.

So she brought me dress said it was from her other friend and its needs turned up. When she tried it on it needed a couple other small things fixed too where it was badly constructed.

I cut 19cm off the dress and hemmed it (4 layers) and spent ages unpicking the back seam and straightening it. I then made a waist sash out of the hem as asked.

She collected the dress two weeks ago. I did this as a favour so no money or anything changed hands.

The brides other friend contacted me on Facebook and said I'd ruined her dress. Said she was going to see a solicitor because it was ruined and she couldn't use it again ( it's a wedding dress made with fairly cheap fabric and wouldn't have cost a lot to start with and was badly constructed) when I gave it back it was in better condition than what I received.

Can she sue me for doing this? As far as I was aware it was the brides to do with as she pleased. I've messaged the bride and she hasn't replied.

It's a form that Irish and no doubt people from other areas use. I'd say 'it needs turning up' where my friend from Belfast would say 'it needs turned up.'

Tbh the minutenshebsaid it was "from her other friend" I'd have backed away.

Yes, "from her other friend" but I would have assumed by way of a gift, not a loan. How was the OP to know the friend wanted it back?! And was same friend expecting the bride to wear a dress far too big for her on her wedding day?! OP's friend is batshit, as is the bride's friend. OP has done the right thing.

Wow how ungrateful of your friend not to reply.
Have you even been invited to the wedding?
All down to this 'so called' friend

Bloody cheek you sure this isn't a scam to get money out of you.If she got it altered before checking with her friend that's her fault not yours.Thats what you get for doing a good deed let her contact a solicitor good luck with that bring it on.

I find it hilarious that the owner's reason for being grumpy is that she won't be able to use the dress again. As if she planned to get several weddings out of the one dress 🤣😂
Any legal sorting has nothing to do with you, tell her to speak to your friend about it.

I agree it means 'shortened' but as in hemmed like a pair of trousers, so she's minimised what needed doing deliberately in that text.

She's backpedalling. If saving the length was necessary, the conversation would have happened clear as day 'can you do this without cutting it?'. You couldn't turn up a layered gown like a school skirt by that much, not well. it would look bulky and hang badly.

C bomb and block both they sound like a right pair don't entertain it. You could then get hold of judge rinder and put in a counter claim for stress.

Jesus effing Christ these people are truely insane. I am so impressed with how you’ve dealt with this and blocked them instantly with no nonsense. No point trying to explain to them. Huge well done to you! You’ve handled it perfectly.

Screen shot everything. Make a group chat with them both in and send them. Then get some popcorn and watch it kick off

Lol this thread is now on the Daily Mail. Op should ask for a fee.

I think so too.

Really??? Anyone have a link?

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14114459/amp/I-altered-friends-bridal-gown-realising-shed-borrowed-original-owner-threatening-sue-me.html