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    Bridals By Elena

    3.5 (64 reviews)
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    Open 11:00 am - 8:00 pm

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    Yvette S.

    Elena the owner is working with us and has a great eye for the bride. The shop is comfy and has lots of eye candy. Okay, eight months later.... we were told at our first visit that the dress would be in the shop for initial fitting at the end of January. Well one month passed and my daughter was making calls about the status. Mid-Feb rolls around and my daughter pops by to find out what has happened....the dress came in in JANUARY and they didn't know where it was!!!! REALLY!?!? AND it was the wrong color! REALLY!?!? So we bit the bullet, accepted the dress because of the timing and have been miserable ever since. Now we were told that we needed to schedule ANOTHER fitting because they didn't get it right the first time!! They were to make the adjust and NADA. We saw where the pins still remained.... REALLY!?!?! This should be a wonderful experience for us and it is truly lack luster. By the way....where is Frances?

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    Lizz L.

    Elena and her team were incredible at making my last minute wedding a magical day. They went above and beyond on a tight turn around to not only bustle and hem my dress, but made sure every seam, wrinkle and button was immaculately adjusted so I had the perfect wedding gown. Even during this pandemic, they went above and beyond to help me as I know they would do for any bride. I can not recommend enough - 5 stars!

    Jean K.

    I got my wedding dress and headpiece from Bridal's by Elena and they did a phenomenal job! Elena did an amazing job listening to what I wanted for a wedding dress, but also helping me to try different styles to make sure I had tried a variety of dresses before I picked my perfect dress. She spent hours with me and my friends and family until I chose my wedding dress. Elena could read the room and my feelings immediately and could change gears based on what I liked or did not like from each dress I tried. In regards to my fitting and alterations, Bridals by Elena did a great job! My dress had a ton of beading and I was worried about the alterations: I had the sleeves tapered and shortened. They were done beautifully. My mother also got her dress there for the wedding and she was given compliments all day. I would hands down suggest Bridal by Elena to EVERYONE!

    This is a post wedding update. I just want to commend bridal by Elena again for working with me! I lived about 5000 miles away so everything had to be done in the 1 week I was there in May and then the one week I was there in August just a week before the wedding! They got everything done on time and my dress was so perfect! Thank you again! You ladies are the best. Especially, the owner. She pays close attention to all of her brides!

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    I highly recommend this establishment I found my dream dress and the staff was remarkable

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    Gowns Remembered

    Gowns Remembered

    3.0(2 reviews)
    4.5 mi
    $$

    The price seemed too good to be true. $395 for cleaning and preserving my wedding dress. They…read moresaid it would be 3-4 weeks and they would call. At 7 weeks they hadn't called, so I visited the store. They took me back to the dresses and showed that the cleaned gown was there, however it wasn't ready. As to delivery, they don't call you for any delays or updates so you wait at home for nothing. The first time they didn't show up, I called and found out that it's because they didn't have a right box for my gown. The 2nd time they still no show on the scheduled time so I called again. Finally the manager delivered it to my in person and apologized, but still, the service and communication is poor. Cannot recommend them in any case.

    When I purchased a sample sale wedding dress, I had no idea how stressful it would be to find a dry…read morecleaner that I could not only trust with my dress but wouldn't over charge me by preying on the deep fear another place could ruin it! My search began after calling the dry cleaners recommended by my dress shop. This particular cleaner's pricing started at $500 but since my dress had intricate ruffles at the bottom, said it would likely be $700-$900. After picking my jaw off the floor, I went to work searching the entire DMV area for a reputable business with a fair price and I found it at Gowns Remembered. Terri was personable and reassured me everything would be fine and she would have it ready in 1 week. When I picked up my gown, it was practically glowing. They did an amazing job! The cleaning was pristine and they'd perfectly pressed each and every complicated ruffle for a very fair price. I would recommend them for any upcoming bride before their wedding or any bride looking to preserve their dress as well!

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    The Wedding Dresser Studio

    The Wedding Dresser Studio

    3.7(6 reviews)
    19.6 miCross Keys

    I am saying this to protect other brides, do not come here if you value your dress or your vintage…read moredress! Susan is one of the most unprofessional and unkind people I have ever met, and I like previous reviewers try to support small businesses ( please see my other reviews.) Susan and her team managed to give my dress back to me with blood stains (yes blood, see photos) and dirt after claiming it would be sent to their professional cleaners. (A verbal contract in the state of Maryland is a legally binding contract as well as paper.) She also claimed quote "it is not unusual to get a blood stains" "they are easiest to remove" "we leave it on until the end" unquote. Would you want your dress left with blood stains and dirt and given back to you like that a month before your wedding? Also, as we all know blood stains are some of the hardest to remove especially from white and delicate fabrics even with good hydrogen peroxide. My dress was a sample dress and only came in with a few water stains, which of course I knew because the store I bought it from informed me and sent photos . She kept claiming it came like that when I have clear before photos that it did not, from myself and the bridal store. Her team also made my drop waist an empire waist, which is exactly what I said I wanted to avoid since I have a short torso. I only wanted to raise the waist a little bit. So, I asked them to lower the waist again. They did not. She claimed my dress was just sitting in the done pile. They did not even sew the buttons back on. I looked at this dress since 2021 and it was my dream dress, but I couldn't afford it retail and was so happy when I got it at a sample sale. My heart has been broken. All it needed was a slight clean for small water stains in the back, some hemming and letting out the waist a little bit. Instead they ruined my dress. When I brought it to my personal dry cleaners the same day as that last fitting it was so filthy they were shocked and thought I had already worn the dress on my wedding day. Between them and another alterations team they stated it would not be ready due to the extensive dirt and damage on time (my wedding was in a month at that point and is still being extensively dry cleaned.) It was not even in sellable condition. So I clearly asked for a refund, but it took so long I disputed the charge with the bank. The bank refunded me of course, but by then the refund finally came in. The bank fixed the double refund, however Susan repeatedly harassed me about it and didn't believe me even when I showed her my bank statements that the second refund was cancelled. She also claimed she just gave me the refund without me asking (I asked in an email) and claimed my dress came that way even though I have photo proof before I brought it to her and the first day there. She also claimed I was harassing and bullying her when she started the emails and wouldn't let it go that the second refund had been cancelled and denying that having blood on a dress in your workplace is an environmental hazard. I only asked her to pay $280 in addition to the refund for the cleaning fee since her staff dirtied it which seemed reasonable considering the circumstances but she decided to gaslight me and did not take accountability. I would not wish the pain I have felt the last few weeks before my wedding instead of happiness on anyone. Again, it is customer's choice, but I would not recommend coming here. And in case you think this is just a disgruntled customer's review, please review the photos and keep in mind I was very kind to Susan and her team up to this point and even gave them gifts. I nor any other bride deserve this treatment especially after kindness. She now owes me $1500+ $280 =$1780 ( the value of the dress and my cleaning fee.) She and her team have caused property damage, non rendering of services, emotional distress, harassment, and slander and she will not even take accountability or admit it even with the proof. I also found her to be demeaning and rude to her employees whenever they tried to say anything in front of customers and observed that she constantly orders them around at all my appointments. So, buyer beware.

    I was going to wait to write this review until after my 9/21/24 wedding, but felt it was imperative…read morethat I post sooner rather than later for the benefit of other brides. I will add photos of my dresses (if Yelp allows me to edit) after our wedding. I deeply love and respect small business owners, and understand the weight reviews have, so it pains me to leave this. I brought my dress to Susan and her team at their Baltimore location in mid-July 2024. My dress needed to be hemmed, taken in at the bodice, and straps shortened. I was quoted ~$1400. While expensive, I believe in Susan's mission of paying her employees a living wage and believed that this price reflected the high quality of their alterations. I also brought Susan a gown to be shortened to tea length, let out, and sleeves removed for my rehearsal dinner. I was quoted ~$1000. I picked up my wedding gown on Saturday, 9/14 after the prior 3 fittings in which I was expressing concerns with extra fabric in the side bust. In previous fittings Susan and her team attempted to add a dart to correct this problem, which caused the bust line to come to a point. I am grateful for their work to then remove the dart and try another approach to correct the issue extra side bust fabric issue. When I picked up my wedding gown, the problem of the extra fabric at the side bust was not corrected. Furthermore the cups were added to the dress without appropriately stretching the fabric around the cup, causing a bunching effect of the fabric. I picked up my dress, having paid an extra $100 for an extra fitting (per Susan's contract), and promptly brought my dress to another seamstress who, luckily, was kind enough to fit me in for a rush appointment less than a week before my wedding day. The bodice fit was easily corrected by this seamstress in one fitting. My rehearsal dinner dress was provided to me for pickup with a lining layer left raw, which I will now finish at home on my own machine. The horse hair hem of my wedding dress is not snug to the bottom of my hem, as it originally was, and in some locations, the hem doesn't appear straight. In one of my last fittings, Susan pointed out that the straps of my dress started to turn grey, which she claimed was from handling the dress a lot through alterations. She said I could get the dress cleaned if I wanted, but I declined. I understand how this was possible, but it seems that some measures should be taken to avoid discoloring wedding dresses while working on them. Susan repeatedly commented on the difficulty of working with designer dresses, and misidentified my dress fabric as crepe (it is silk mikado). I found it troubling that someone with her level of experience made these comments. I believe Susan was well-intentioned in her efforts to ease my anxiety throughout the process, and truly do appreciate the intention. Multiple times, she insinuated that I was experiencing "bridal psychosis", meaning that I was picking apart my dress given the pressures of being a bride. I agree - being a bride is stressful, and can lead us to second-guess ourselves. However, this phrase is inappropriate and gaslighting. My dress had serious problems, which another seamstress agreed with and promptly acted on. Furthermore, making light of mental illness in this manner is insulting. This experience left me more stressed than I have ever been in my life. I hardly slept or ate these last few weeks because in the two weeks before my wedding, I wasn't sure if my dress could be saved. I had nearby bridal shops holding samples for me, as until finding a new seamstress, I thought I would have to buy a whole new dress again. Susan stated her mission was to "take the stress out of dressing for your wedding." This is an admirable goal, which unfortunately was far from met in my case. Multiple times through my months of working with Susan and her team, I was asked to write a review. I'm deeply sorry it has to be this one. I appreciate the opportunity to work with Susan, Joan, and Joy, and genuinely wish them well and success with future brides' dresses. Perhaps I was just unlucky.

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    The Wedding Dresser Studio - This was the dress before I brought it to The Wedding Dresser - what even IS that bubbled fabric at the slit?!

    This was the dress before I brought it to The Wedding Dresser - what even IS that bubbled fabric at the slit?!

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    Seleh's De Federal Hill - Sleeves sewn shut.

    Seleh's De Federal Hill

    4.9(77 reviews)
    14.4 miFederal Hill
    $$$

    Seleh tailored my suit in 2022. The suit came out incredible and I was looking forward to getting…read moremy new suit tailored this year. Unfortunately, Seleh is currently battling cancer and is not a this shop.

    Thank you Seleh for doing such an incredible job altering my wedding dress! Seleh completed a…read morecomplicated alteration that involved removing mesh covering most of the top half of the dress. Before undertaking the work, Seleh ran through some of the considerations, including the fact that the mesh provided structural support that he would need to compensate for around the straps. He finished the dress on time and the removed mesh looked flawless. He completed a second round of alterations after my first fitting. Then, a week or two after I took the dress home (and nine days before my wedding), I panicked about the fit of the bodice and the straps and left a slightly frantic voicemail for Seleh. To his immense credit, he called me back in ten minutes to calmly and gently ask me what was wrong and how he could fix it. He didn't make me feel crazy or unreasonable and made a quick appointment for me a couple of days later. He turned around this last round of alterations in a couple days -- a complex addition of fabric under the dress straps to reduce itchiness and some alterations to the bodice -- and the dress was perfect after that. His work on the straps was particularly impressive because the added fabric was completely invisible despite the fact that the straps were irregularly shaped, ornate, and lace. All in all, Seleh gets top marks for skill, timeliness, and emotional sensitivity (all a must when altering wedding dresses). Thank you again, Seleh!

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    Seleh's De Federal Hill - Sleeves open

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    Vivance Bridal Gowns

    Vivance Bridal Gowns

    1.0(2 reviews)
    5.6 mi

    Do not buy your prom dress or any gowns from this store, they steal your money, their stuff is…read morecheap, and the manager is always sick when you have a compliant, they don't understand English when you complain but they understand you very well when you give them your money.

    Terrible customer service, I will never go back. Went into this store to try on a dress for my…read moredaughters wedding. The employee was constantly on her cell phone talking to her kids and ignoring me. I finally asked if she could help me find a dress in the style I was looking for and was told she couldn't find one and went back to talking on her cell phone. When I did find some dresses to try on, she let me into the dressing room. The rooms had no chair, bench or anything to place my items on except the floor. When the dress was too small I asked for a size bigger, which she brought. And again she went back to talking on her cell phone. When I realized the other dresses would also need to be a size bigger, I tried flag her down to ask for help. She was too busy talking on her phone. I finally just got dressed and went to the front counter where she was and said "I would have liked to try the other dresses on, but you don't seem like you have any interests in assisting me, you've been on the phone non stop the entire time I've been here." At this time, she had a friend or family at the counter with her who promptly responded to me in a nasty tone to defend her friend. I asked who the owner was, and was given a card with Mr. Park written on it. So, Mr. Park, if you are the owner, this employee is destroying your business and driving customers away!

    Entyse Lyfe Weddings & Events - Our chuppah with textiles from our ancestors

    Entyse Lyfe Weddings & Events

    4.9(11 reviews)
    23.3 mi

    Oh my goodness, Andrea was incredible!! We hired her as a partial planner and she surpassed our…read moreexpectations and then some. We realized around 7 months out that while we had booked some of the major things, we were overwhelmed and in over our heads, and she really saved the day and made it all possible - planning a wedding is a lot y'all!! Especially from out of state, whew! She helped us with finding quality vendors, keeping us on track/organized through her super helpful portal (which had sections for design planning, vendor contacts, budget, seating charts, to-do list, advice, etc), with a number of scheduled video calls and by checking in via email. We used zola for our website but I regret not going with her option to build a website for us because zola had a lot of frustrating limitations (couldn't even add links or bold things where we needed to). She had a helpful assistant through the prep process and an amazing, kind wedding day team who helped assemble my dream design elements. I'm a designer and made mockups of how I wanted things to look and uploaded pictures to the portal design studio, and they followed my vision so well!! And they even made one part look more tasteful than I had planned - loved it! Maybe more importantly, Andrea and her team basically made everything run smoothly, including packing up all the stuff we gave them to set out at the end of the night and dropping it off at my husband's dad's house since our venue was strict and needed everything out ASAP. What a relief to just show up to the wedding day (and leave) knowing all of those little details were being set up and taken care of - it was awesome! On the day-of, Andrea and her team were connected with the vendors with headsets, making everything run smoothly and communicating with the DJ about who was coming down the aisle for the songs to line up. She also helped us and the rest of the staff adjust and pivot after our ceremony went way overtime (we should've known, our rabbi loves the poetic details, which was beautiful in the moment, and my husband & I probably should've planned for more time knowing that lol). She helped us calm down after realizing how behind we were because she stayed so calm and collected, and calmly walked us through deciding what to shift for the rest of our timeline (we packed a lot of rituals in there). She also swooped in to help when I was having trouble with my makeshift dress bustle (she had worked at a bridal shop in the past - so amazingly helpful!) Andrea is so kind, calm, organized, approachable, and just nice to work with. She talked me through a few anxieties when I was overthinking things and in general, she was super patient with our moments of indecision and neurosis lol. I'm going to miss our rapport and check-ins, it was so nice knowing she had our backs throughout this whole process. Wedding planning is an overwhelming process, so having someone there for us like she was was a total game changer. I wish I knew more people in the area to recommend her - if you're on the fence, definitely hire her! She's amazing and you won't regret it!! (Waiting for our official photos but sharing a few of what we have for now)

    She's the best! Andrea and the Entyse Lyfe team are simply the best. All we started with was a…read moredress and two months before the wedding date. Andrea turned it into the wedding of my dreams. From the beginning Andrea was professional, organized and full of ideas! She asked us what our must have wedding details were and found a way to make sure that we had them in the wedding. I appreciated all of the vendor recommendations she provided. They fit in perfectly with the style and tone of the wedding. She was there every step of the way and alleviated all of the wedding planning stress that she could. Andrea had a solution for everything that came up through the process. Even down to the end, like not having a cake stand for 2 of the cakes a day before the wedding. She came up with a substitute that was beautiful, matched the decor and no one was the wiser. The day of the wedding she was there with her team and the magic happened!! It was a beautifully arranged room and better than I imagined. The days events went along smoothly. But, it was Andrea and her team working hard behind the scenes to ensure that all we had to do was enjoy ourselves! And, everyone enjoyed themselves. The best decision I made other than my husband was hiring Andrea as my wedding planner.

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    Entyse Lyfe Weddings & Events - Memorial chairs the team displayed for us

    Memorial chairs the team displayed for us

    Entyse Lyfe Weddings & Events - In-progress centerpiece pic (not pictured yet - votives & table numbers) - the team did a lovely job! Can't wait for our official photos!

    In-progress centerpiece pic (not pictured yet - votives & table numbers) - the team did a lovely job! Can't wait for our official photos!

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