calling off a wedding... who pays for bridesmaid dress

[angelic1]

I searched to try to find any posts on this before.. plus i looked on the internet and couldnt find anything.. but maybe someone can or they know better than me..

this is actually a story about a friend of mine and she was asking what she should do..

she was supposed to be a bridemaid in one of our other friends from high school's wedding. She told her what dress to get and where.. so she bought the dress thinkng nothing of it. Well about a month or so later.. the friend wrote her and told her that she had called off the wedding. It turns out at the time she was having doubts and had started talking to/seeing another guy. She never told her that she was having doubts when she was insisting that she go buy the dress nor that she was seeing this other guy..

so my question is.. is it wrong for her to ask her to pay back the money for the dress.... since she cant return it.