When Samantha Pereira, of Maryland, got engaged this past summer to her now fiancé, Dan Dasilva, one of the first things on her wedding preparation to-do list was to try on her mother’s wedding dress.
Growing up, Samantha had seen her parents’ wedding photos all over her childhood home in New Jersey and she relished the chance to step into the very same dress. It was always a guess on whether she or her sister, Nicole, would wind up wearing it first.
“The first thing, my mom especially, wanted to do was finally get her dress out so we can finally try it on. She’s been waiting for this for years,” Samantha tells Inside Edition Digital.
Her mother, Christina, pulled the box out of the attic. It fit — but Samantha noticed her mother didn’t seem too happy.
“I was expecting my mom to start crying while she’s looking at me in her dress, and she didn’t,” she says.
It turns out that it was the wrong dress.
“You can just assume what happened next. She just freaked out, started crying, broke my heart to see her like that,” Samantha says.