Syrian refugee saves Canadian bride’s dress moments before her wedding

Moments before her wedding was due to start the zip on Jo Du’s dress broke. It was a Sunday and Du didn’t know where to find a tailor so one of her bridesmaid’s ran next door to ask a neighbour for a pair of pliers.

When she knocked on the door the bridesmaid discovered that the neighbour was actually hosting a family of Syrian refugees who had arrived in the country four days earlier, and that the father had worked as a tailor in Aleppo for the past 28 years.

When Ibrahim Halil Dudu’s house and tailoring business were bombed and destroyed the family left Syria and registered as refugees in Turkey where they waited for three years before being allowed into Canada.

Halil Dudu and his son went to Du’s house with his sewing kit and stitched up her dress. In a Facebook post that has been liked some 30,000 times, wedding photographer Lindsay Coulter wrote: “Every weekend I take photos of people on the happiest days of their lives, and today one man who has seen some of the worst things our world has to offer came to the rescue.”

A gofundme page has been set up to help the Halil Dudu family with health and dental care.