DOZENS of brides-to-be have been left in anguish after the apparent collapse of a luxury wedding firm.

Emotions ran high after customers arrived at the Capri Skies boutique in Glasgow on Saturday to find the store closed and cleared of most of its stock.

A notice on the door of the shop on Bath Street said it was closed for the weekend because of "unforeseen circumstances" and shoppers were waiting anxiously to find out if the store would reopen today.

Police had to be called to calm tempers as around 20 women, some due to be married within weeks, and their families banged on the locked doors, while the firm's owners and staff were nowhere to be seen.

A few doors along from the shop, a rival wedding firm was taking advantage of the closure with a notice in the window offering gowns at discounted rates.

The shop, Capri Skies, - and a sister store in Ayr - is owned by James and Kahlua Campbell, from Newton Mearns.

No-one from the company was available for comment and anxious shoppers seeking assurances their dresses would be delivered on time were directed to an answering machine.

Lesley Branch, 30, from Mount Florida in the South Side of Glasgow, is due to be married in three weeks' time.

She paid £800 for her wedding gown a year ago and says staff were preparing for a sale when she arrived for her final fitting just over a week ago.

She said: "I tried calling the shop but it went straight to an answer-machine. I went down to the store and could see a few dresses hanging in the shop. I'm just hoping that one of them is mine."

Lesley is due to marry her fiancee Jonathan, 30, in Portobello in Edinburgh on June 20 and said she had already begun making arrangements for an alternative dress.

She said: "At the end of the day it is just a dress. I keep thinking the most important thing is getting married."