A humiliated bride whose Rapallo wedding gown left her behind exposed after coming unstitched at the seams as she spoke her vows at the altar is said to be taking legal action against her designer.

In line with Italian legislation the thirty year old woman cannot be named on legal grounds, but is set to sue the dress maker for both moral and financial damages in the region of some £20,000 after claiming that her wedding day was wrecked after her £2,000 wedding gown came apart in front of sniggering family, friends and her husband to be.

The embarrassed bride was left humiliated and in floods of tears, with her lawyers claiming that what should have been the happiest day of her life was actually the worst day of her life, adding that the devastation caused by the failure of the dress completely ruined the wedding.

The priest who conducted the wedding in 2006 in Chivari on the romantic Italian Riviera continued with the ceremony and the couple were eventually married, but the blushing bride refused to allow anyone to take photographs on the day as she considered herself to be semi-naked.

The fiasco took place over two years ago but has only recently come to the notice of the courts. Sadly the couple have since separated.