With a little over two months left before her wedding day, Pepa said she started hyperventilating.
"I kept trying to think of ways we could fix it, and I tried relaying my thoughts to the designer," Pepa said, "but she stormed off — saying she 'won't be listening to my attitude.'"
Initially, Pepa said her friends and family tried to be exceedingly supportive. "It wasn't until the designer and I got into an argument (screaming match)," she said, "that everyone showed their honest, unfiltered opinions and rattled off reasons as to why the dress was as heinous as I thought it was."
Devastated, Pepa said she told the designer that day that she wouldn't be wearing the gown to her wedding, and followed up with a text to restate that three days later.
"You and I both know that is a sad excuse of a wedding dress, with endless design flaws regardless if it matched what I initially ASKED you to recreate," Pepa wrote, in part, in the message. "Not only are they two completely different dresses but my dress alone is an embarrassment for both of us."
"You yelled saying that the dress I showed you I wanted was actually just used as 'inspiration,'" Pepa continued, "When were you going to tell me it was an inspiration and couldn't actually be done?"
"I was fine with changing the vision of the dress if it was too difficult, I understood it was an undertaking," she wrote. "However, it is YOUR job and responsibility to acknowledge the extent of your capabilities and to communicate them to your client."
You can see a screenshot of the full note in Pepa's November 22 TikTok.