A wedding service company has been ordered to pay a couple 5,000 yuan ($802) after the wife's designer wedding dress was damaged while being laundered, Xuhui District People's Court said Wednesday.

The couple bought the dress in 2011 from Vera Wang for $7,751.91 in preparation for their wedding in the US, according to a press release from the court. They had hired the defendant, a Shanghai-based company, to arrange the wedding in Hawaii later that year. The arrangements cost 69,900 yuan.

After the wedding, the couple asked the company's staff to clean the dress, the court said. Although the company didn't have its own cleaning service, its employees agreed to take the dress to a laundry service on the couple's behalf.

However, when the newlyweds got the dress back, they found parts of it were frayed. The husband, surnamed Jia, asked the company for restitution, but it only blamed the laundry service.

The couple ended up taking the company and the laundry service to court, asking for 60,000 yuan in damages.

In court, the company argued that it was simply doing the couple a favor when it sent the dress to be cleaned, and didn't directly damage the dress.

The laundry service argued that the plaintiffs couldn't present an invoice, so there was no evidence that the dress was even cleaned at its store.

Although the couple's contract with the wedding service company didn't include laundry service, the court ruled that the company took responsibility for the dress when its staff agreed to have it cleaned. Still, it determined the company was only partially liable for the damage.

Global Times