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Design Wedding Gown STEPHANIE Faoro's wedding day was saved by a "hero"holding a pair of scissors, fabric and sewing machine. The Mt Waverley bride walked down the aisle on Saturday in herfairytale wedding gown which she picked up only the day before. Last year, Stephanie found her perfect design at a Ringwooddressmaker. But after paying the full $2200 in May, she sensedsomething was wrong. "I kept asking them whether it would be ready and they keptassuring me it was fine," Stephanie said. Even Rene Tamasauskas, of Oakleigh's Tamasauskas Design,commissioned to make the matron-of-honour and flowergirl dress,said the bride was overreacting. But when Stephanie arrived for her fitting on May 27, thedressmaker had gone out of business. "They said there was no money, no dress, at which point Iburst out into tears," she said. Stephanie then rushed to Tamasauskas Design with nothing more thana roll of silk duchess satin and hope. "By Friday the lining and the skirt were already done and bythe next Wednesday it was finished," she said. "They are my heroes. They were able to make the same dress andonly charged me $1500." Ms Tamasauskas said the dress was made with the least amount oftrauma possible. "We don't have second chances in this business because we arealways working to deadlines," Ms Tamasauskas said. "All you need is some scissors, some fabric, a sewing machineand a mannequin." Stephanie married Matthew Kelly at Nathania Springs Receptions inMonbulk on Saturday, with her daughter, Madeleine, 2, as the flowergirl.