VIDEO: American woman runs Brooklyn Half Marathon in wedding dress in search of groom

In an unusual scene, 28-year-old American Tess Tregellas showed up at the Brooklyn Half Marathon last Saturday wearing a wedding dress—not to escape a groom, but to find one.

Tess Tregellas, a Brooklyn comedian, said before the race, "My husband may be at the finish line, and even though I didn't find my life partner, I made a lot of people smile."

She continued, "During the race, I had a sign on my back that said, 'I want to get married.' A lot of people asked me to take my picture, which I loved because I felt like a celebrity, and it also opened up a lot of conversations and got to know the people running alongside me."

She added, after the two-hour-and-33-minute race, "No one proposed to me, but the women loved the idea, and that's the real goal: for each of us to feel like a bride someday in her life."