Bride Buys New House and Finds Something Unexpected for Her Wedding Hidden Away in the Attic

A soon-to-be bride found an unexpected surprise in the attic of her new house. 

Not long after she and her fiancé moved from Illinois to a new state, Kaitlyn Ostolaza and her father discovered a wedding dress that seemed to be left behind in the attic.

“POV you bought a house with your fiancé and find a wedding dress in the attic,” Ostolaza, 23, wrote on TikTok alongside clips of her father, who had been visiting her at the time, pulling a big cardboard box down from the attic. 

After her father discovered the box and sent her a picture of it, the bride-to-be told Newsweek that she immediately had a pretty good guess of what it was. 

“I always knew that it was a wedding dress based on what he sent to me and the label on the box,” Ostolaza explained. “It wasn’t until weeks later, however, when I had my fiancé go into the attic to get the box.”

When she cut the aged box open, a long-sleeved wedding dress was neatly packaged inside. She pulled it out and held it up, revealing intricate detailing along the train and sleeves, before trying on the matching veil and modeling it for the camera.

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After sharing the now-viral video, Ostalaza clarified to the outlet that she waited two weeks before opening the package to give the previous homeowners time to claim the dress. However, there was no reply. 

“This is not the previous owner’s wedding dress,” she wrote in the caption of her TikTok. “Hoping to use something left behind as my something borrowed for our wedding 💕🏹. I just know whoever wore this dress looked amazing in it. The train is everything.”

While some people in the comments joked that the dress may have been “cursed,” others noted that Ostalaza had been chosen by the “wedding dress distribution system” and suggested ideas for how she should repurpose the gown. 

“There have been a lot of good ideas left in my comment section about turning it into a reception dress, getting-ready robe or there is an artist on the platform who creates pieces using wedding dresses that might be a cute way to display [it] in the home,” Ostalaza told Newsweek, noting that the dress wasn’t the only thing they found.

“In the same attic above the garage, there were some pool floaties, [and] there is another attic above the home that we have yet to explore,” she revealed.