A dirty dig for the big day’s dress

It was a picture perfect wedding. Zach Richards and his beautiful bride Sarah flew all the way from Indiana to The Sand Bar on Anna Maria Island to say ‘I do.’ Sand Bar employee Maggie Cucci was there to help. “I bring them water and just take care of them, find cameras, a lot of lost cameras, we’ve had lost sunglasses. That’s normally what happens,” explains Cucci. What the pictures don’t show is a tale even the bride has yet to hear. It’s the story of what happened after the wedding, the story of Sarah’s dress ending up in a landfill and one dedicated employee’s effort, sifting through unmentionable filth, to try and bring it back. “Sandbar food is wonderful. Their garbage is horrendous. I mean whole fish,” adds Cucci. The wedding itself went off without a hitch. So Cucci headed inside to tidy up. “So I came in and here on Karen’s chair was the big wad of bags and hangers and assorted trash,” retold Cucci. What she didn’t know was that Sarah’s beautiful dress was in one of those bags, that is until the next day. “The next morning when Patty called me and said, ‘have you seen Sarah’s dress do you know where it is?’ it was in Karen’s office. I immediately thought it was in the wad of trash,” offered Cucci. As luck would have it, unfortunately, the next day also happened to be

trash day. When Cucci went back to The Sand Bar to see if she could find the dress she realized that the dress, along with all of the trash had already been hauled to the landfill. Cucci immediately drove the 45 minutes to the dump. With the help of the father of the bride and some sanitation workers, she sorted through a mound of trash in the rain until, low and behold, they spotted it. “I was so happy. We all yelled and screamed and the dump truck drivers were cheering. It was one of those moments, honestly, it was so worth it to do it,” said Cucci. At The Sand Bar solving bridal problems is nothing new. They’re five for five in finding wedding rings in the sand. Now, they’ve got something new to brag about. “Take care of your guests. Do a little something extra for your guests, but never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that Maggie Cucci would be out at the landfill and that the story would end up with a happy ending,” added Ed Chiles, owner of The Sand Bar. Cucci says the bride still doesn’t know about what happened. Her family plans on telling her this weekend at a reception in Indiana with a video they made about the whole incident.  

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A dirty dig for the big day’s dress

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