STAY AWAY FROM THIS SHOP!!! Where do I begin?! Awful customer service! First off, they talked me into ordering a larger size to make sure the gown would fit, and of course when it came in, it was huge on me....exactly as my mother predicted (side note, always listen to your mother.) But since the sample size I had tried on fit me perfect (which was the size they talked me out of ordering b/c it had been tried on so much "it was probably stretched out") they tried to convince me into swapping my new dress out with it for an even exchange. HA! Yes, you read that right...a $3000 brand new dress for a used sample that had rips and tears in it.
On top of that, the bustle was a slightly different color from the rest of the gown and they tried to blame it on the lighting in the store. The amount of excuses they came up with was comical. I regrettably ended up having to pay almost $1500 in alterations to them. So now, a dress they had originally told me was "on sale" for $2700, was now costing us $4500. To add to this horrendous experience, the consultant, Pat, who originally helped me on my initial appointment who was the main reason I ordered it, was never heard from again. I couldn't wait to just be done with them, but I wasn't that lucky.
We unfortunately had already ordered the groomsmen suits through them as well, so I had to continue to deal with their excuses and shortcomings. Since our wedding was 3 hrs away, we had the grooms parents pick up the groom and ring bearer suits for us b/c we could only rent the suits for a few days. I found out the morning of the wedding while I was getting ready that Elegant Touch forgot to include the vests that we ordered for the GROOM and the RING BEARER. So now the groom's vest which was the one thing that was setting the groom apart from the rest of the groomsmen, made him look like every other guy in the wedding. Not to mention was supposed to be the one thing that made him match with the ring bearer. We had planned for him to be wearing only the vest for the dance that we rehearsed for a year and he just looks completely different than how we imagined it. I could not be more sick over how they treated us and their lack of effort to even offer any type of consolation for their forgetful mistakes. I hate that I can't even stand to look at our wedding pictures b/c it still fires me up how much we look nothing like the way we wanted to.
Your wedding is not all about the attire, so we of course still had a great time and had a wonderful wedding...but my stomach truly turns every time I see the pictures of us from the ceremony, our portraits and our dance we worked so hard on. I just wish they could even understand a tenth of how much they ruined such a special part of our day we were so looking forward to cherishing. You spend so much time and energy on planning, budgeting and paying so much attention to detail on making everything as perfect as you possibly can, and it just takes one vendor to ruin it all. read more