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Your friends are running round plucking more off the rails that they like have no clue what they look like on, turn to the lady helping you and ask ‘what should you recommend, when you’re approaching the end of your consultation and you’ve ‘quite liked’ some but haven’t gone crazy over any.
Nobody knows the dresses better than the person helping you. Of course if she knows her stuff she must, that you didn’t necessarily pick out at first pace of the consultation. Be able to suggest something that ticks most or maximum boxes. She’s not a Jedi Knight -she won’t necessarily pull out the dress of your dreams the moment you walk in.
Sama is a bridal consultant at top London bridal boutique, Blackburn Bridal Couture, where she helps stylish brides, just like you, to choose their dream dress. She is also a bride to be herself and editor of The Utter Blog where she obsesses about all things weddings. Any bridal shop works differently and your experiences will vary greatly. You are warned. At times enjoyable more often than not stressful and bloody confusing, Wedding dress shopping is an emotional minefield. At my boutique we always ask if there’s a budget at the initial stage of the consultation. Even if you don’t think you do, everyone has a budget. Generally, it’s more likely you’ll get depressed. So it’s to keep your shopping experience enjoyable and positive and, ultimately, to it is not to judge you and laugh you out of the shop if you don’t have a huge spend.
The actual question is. You need to try on the most expensive dress in the shop -of course you do, it’s beautiful -but what will you do if you like it more than any other dress you try? It’s very unlikely that you’re intending to buy it. With that said, try and establish what you’re seriously prepared to spend up to, and stick to it. To speak, I’m a ‘bride to be’ myself so have experienced the highs and lows of dress shopping from both sides of the fitting room curtain, not only do I now work in the industry.
Well, hello there Bridal Muso’s, and thank you very much Elizabeth for inviting me on to your gorgeous blog! I’d say in case I say so myself, for those who don’t know me, my full name is Sama and I’m lucky enough to work at the utterly fabulous Blackburn Bridal Couture -one of London’s BEST bridal boutiques. Thus by this I mean if it makes you feel sexy or elegant or demure or relaxed or however you seek for to feel on your wedding day, well, you’re on your way to finding your dress, if it does feel right. Oftentimes it probably doesn’t look right, Therefore in case it doesn’t feel right. I have seen as ‘my arm looks fat’ or ‘the third flower from the left is need to be zipped in to a dress that puts a big smile on your face, only to be told ‘No!’ or ‘I don’t like that one’, as you step out of the changing room?
When you have established what you need and made a short list the dresses that felt top. They are the ones that you put on your short list and visit again. We should always advise doing the initial round of shops either on your favorite or with one person who you trust implicitly. Normally, the temptation is to gather a number of your friends and family and to spend a lovely day ‘oohing’ and ‘ahhing’ and quaffing champagne together. Reality is slightly different -a) very few shops actually offer champagne, and b) do you really look for 5 different opinions? Lucky for us she might be stopping by regularly with her hints tips and advice on finding the perfect wedding dress -straight from the fitting room!
Scrap that -wedding dresses are bloody expensive.
There’s a bunch of fabric in a wedding dress, and good quality fabric comes at a cost.
Call the shops you have your eye on and be certain your price range fits with theirs, right after you have an idea of how much you’re planning to spend. There’s no point intending to a shop that starts from 2k if your maximum budget is 1500. Do your research. Ring the shop and make sure the price, when you see a wedding dress you like the look of in a blog or magazine. We meet lots of brides who have started dress shopping with a figure in their heads and have quickly upped it when they’ve realised what they get for their money.