Hayley Paige can’t remember a time when she didn’t want to become a wedding dress designer.
“I was very lucky to just know what I wanted to do from a very early age,” she says.
For Paige, whose full name is Hayley Paige Gutman, that dream seemingly came true when she launched her eponymous bridal line in her mid-twenties.
Her sparkly, whimsical gowns made her a household name in the wedding industry, and she even landed a recurring spot on reality series “Say Yes to the Dress.”
It was a “really great chapter” of “thousands of dresses, amazing brides and growing the brand,” Paige, 39, tells CNBC Make It — until she lost ownership of her professional name and her intellectual property during a four-year legal battle with her former employer.
