• The unknown bride called 911 when her wedding dress was stolen from her car on the morning of her big day
  
• 911 operator who answered the call offered her own dress to bride-to-be

By Jennifer Smith

PUBLISHED: 07:24 EST, 15 August 2013 | UPDATED: 09:00 EST, 15 August 2013

It's supposed to be the biggest day of your life.

So when one bride-to-be had her wedding dress stolen on the day of her ceremony she thought her dream wedding had turned into a nightmare.

But a 911 operator saved the day by offering up her own wedding dress for the occasion, after answering the frantic bride's call.

After she realised her dress had been stolen from her car, the unknown bride-to-be phoned 911 to report the crime.

Little did she know all her prayers would be answered by the woman on the other end of the line, who has been named only as Candice.

Candice, from Tacoma, Washington, began by taking the woman's information down as usual, but said she was particularly touched by her story.

She told the News Tribune: 'I finally figured out what was going on, and asked when the ceremony was scheduled.

When she said ‘today,’ my heart broke in two for her.'

Desperate to help, Candice hung up and quickly asked her supervisor if she could offer the stranger her own dress

'All through the call I was thinking,"I have a dress..."' she said.

With her supervisor’s approval, Candice quickly tracked down the police officer who had responded to the scene, and sent them a text message containing a picture of the dress which she had worn to her own wedding just 18 months prior.

After showing the picture to the anxious bride, it appeared that both women wore the same dress size.

Candice and her husband, Brandon, retrieved the dress from her parents' house and quickly delivered it across town.

The dress fit perfectly, and the bride later told Candice via text message that the wedding had 'gone off without a hitch'.

Candice's good deed is typical behavior according to her manager, Vonnie Mayer, who described her as 'an extraordinary person.'

'She had something someone else needed, and she made it happen' he said.

Though she is delighted to have been able to help, Candice doesn't want all the attention focused on her.

She says that her act of kindness was only made possible by God who allowed the situation to come about in the first place.

She said: 'If I hadn’t taken that call, I wouldn’t have heard about it, if she wasn’t my size, it wouldn’t have worked.

If my husband had gone camping instead of staying home, I couldn’t have gotten to the dress.'

'God does awesome things, and this woman, whose wedding day might have been ruined, had her special day, after all.'