Some girls have a picture in their head of how they want their dream wedding. Huge meringue dress, sparkly tiara, fancy castle, Cinderella's carriage, Prince Charming, rose petals everywhere, 100 bridesmaids... Well, I can imagine myself in Las Vegas with a guy dressed as Elvis conducting the ceremony, it sounds much less hassle. I'm not that easy to please though, the ring has to be at least £92348924238572094 or it's a no. Whenever I pass Sarah Louise Bridal, I always think about girls who obsess over the "dream wedding" where they think about every last detail from the colour of the napkins to the number of petals on each individual flower. I have to admit, the dresses displayed in the window here always look stunning and they cater for every taste. They don't just have the massive meringue dress, they also have slightly more understated beauties. They also have gorgeous bridesmaids dresses displayed which always look very unusual. I've never actually been in but I pass to shop pretty much every day and the dresses in the window always catch my eye, they look very classy. They also change their window display every other week so they have a huge range of stock and will be able to tailor the dresses to your needs. They also stock designer dresses and much of them are exclusive to Sarah Louise Bridal. read more

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I have to say, anyone who works in a bridal shop must have the patience of a saint, and an ever-lasting enthusiasm for weddings. Seriously. From my own experience, brides-to-be must be the most difficult people in the world (sorry girls, I realise it has to be perfect for your big day, but can you tone down the agro?). As afore mentioned in one of my other reviews, (Confetti), my sister was planning her wedding, so I was being dragged round every bride-to-be shop in town (ugh). We'd previously visited 7 other dress shops, and 'nothing was perfect'. Which I can understand. After a long days searching, we ended up in here as my sister fell in love with a dress in the display (hallelujah!). We went in and were immediately met by a smiling happy assistant who sat down with us, and chatted about our 'choices' - and then she began talking about colours, and cuts and... yeah I zoned out (my sister was wrapt in the conversation). My sister was just about to try on the dress when out of the dressing room charged a wild woman (Bridezilla) screaming hysterically about the fact that her dress, since last fitting, had OBVIOUSLY shrunk as she OBVIOUSLY hadn't put on weight. How interesting. The shop assistant apologised, then made her excuses, and went through to chat to the lady. 5 minutes later, Bridezilla came back through, calm and collected (and smiling!), and apologised to us (!). She was followed by the shop assistant who looked like the cat who'd got the cream. God knows what she said, but the entire incident was laughed over, and then Bridezilla left. Powers of persuasion, eh? Anyway, after half an hour my sister had tried on the dress (which in the end wasn't perfect) but the assistant gave her a business card and told her to come back in a couple of weeks to see the 'new collection'. So excellent service, pretty dresses and they can tame a bridezilla? Excellent - what more can you want from a wedding shop!? read more

Sarah Louise Bridal - Fashion Near Me - Glasgow, GLG

Got my wedding dress, veil and tiara here. The dress and veil were the first ones I had tried on and they were perfect. (I did go to other places and tried on other dresses but the first one was the best.) I kinda had a rough idea of what I wanted but was open to suggestions, though the assistant seemed to know exactly what I was looking for and magically picked it out for me (and as i said, the veil too!!) Smooth ordering, dress came in in ample time. Only issue was the fitting lady who had me in tears as the dress didnt look right on, despite me having lost over a stone and looking pretty slim. She wanted to stuff something down the front of the dress to stop it gaping, and have me wear a thing round my waist so i felt it was holding me in. Thing is that she didnt tie it properly and it looked awful. Went to pan pan in edinburgh (see my other review) fixed in a jiffy , fitted perfectly and no need for other stuff to be sewen in or anything, just taken up. Am still giving it 4 stars because the initial assisstant was so nice and they did fine me "the dress" but not at all happy with the alteration staff. Save yourself time, money and heartache and pick up the dress and go elsewhere! I have put price as being moderate - they range from moderate to very pricey. The dress I actually bought was the cheapest one I had tried on (not through design) so was quite happy! read more

I'm very sad to give only 2 star ratings as the dress i purchased and the seamstresses were amazing. This is the reason its 2 star and not 1 because the experience i received with the manager alone would be a minus rating. There was many aspects to my experience but i will highlight the main ones. I first went to the store with my 2 bridesmaids, 2 Aunts and another friend and found the designer and dress i loved. After trying the shop size 12 on, which was too big, i went ahead and places my order for a size 10 and what the sales assistant said was the alterations would be included. This was said infant of everyone and i double reconfirmed this as we assumed alterations would be additions. The dress arrived 2 months before the wedding and i went in to try it on. The dress was ordered as a size 14 and was huge on me!!! I could pull it on and off without it being zipped up. When i started getting upset the manager told me "its the dress you ordered" I explained that it is definetly NOT the dress i ordered as although the first one was too big it fitted much better than this one. She told me a number of things over the next 30 minutes of me crying, "You ordered the dress and have paid for it so its your" "you obviously just don't like the dress anymore" "no refunds" "you must have lost weight" by this point i was really upset, the dress cost a lot and they ordered the wrong one but the manager was adamant that i had lost weight so i asked for the seamstress to measure me. When the seamstress confirmed that actually i had put on weight so the dress should actually be tight she got huffy and told me its £300 for alterations. Every time i spoke, through my tears, she spoke over me and cut me off. At one point she put the palm of her hand up to me and told me to "hold on a second" after me explaining that her staff ordered the wrong dress. I really felt stuck between a rock and a hard place as as she said, i had paid for the dress and it was mine now. In the end i was very happy with the way the dress looking and the Seamstress did a fantastic job getting the dress ready for me but i would NEVER recommend this place based on the way i was treated as a bride, paying a lot of money for my dress and choosing this store over all the others in Scotland. It was disgusting the way i was treated and i felt very intimidated and upset at the whole experience. Its a shame that this is what i will remember from my dress shopping experience. read more

I word of advice to brides and bridesmaids shopping here......make sure they measure your height, before they order your dress. This seems an obvious thing for a dress shop to need to do, but obviously not on this occasion. We got our bridesmaids dresses from Sarah Louise Bridal. Beautiful, full length dresses - very excited (as you'd expect). I picked silver shoes with a small 2 inch heel (as I'm not great at heels) and went for my fitting. To my dismay, once the dress was on we found it was too short with these shoes (sitting at ankle length, which does not look great in a dress that is expected to be full length). It became evident that these dresses come in different lengths, but that hadn't been considered when measuring us to order them. I'm also not an abnormal heigh - 5ft 7. The only solution was for me to find flat shoes, which I did. This seemed to solve the asthetic problem of the dress length, but what we were most annoyed at was that when we asked for some sort of discount (or at least compensation for me having to buy two pairs of shoes!) we were told that it was actually my fault for buying shoes with a heel in the first place and that we had actually made a saving by not needing to pay for any alterations. A bit more of an acknowledgement of fault and less finger pointing would have made our experience a little less sour. I would recommend the shop for its selection of dresses, but was a little disappointed by the attitude and experience of some of the staff. read more

Unfortunately I have had a complete different experience in Sarah Louise Bridal! Yes I totally agree their window looks great which is why I had made an appointment to try on bridesmaid dresses. When we arrived we were ushered downstairs to the bridesmaid collection. The sales assistant was the least interested person in the shop I think! Again, yes they had some gorgeous dresses and as Myself and my 2 bridesmaid were half way through picking out dresses the sales assistant told us that we had enough now and to start trying them on! I hadn't even finished looking and the girls were unshered away to start trying them on! The changing rooms looked as if they needed a good hoover! The Girls then had to squeeze in to the 1 changing room (which were on the small side) as all the other rooms were in use. The assistant huffed and puffed her way through the dresses and handed me bout 5 different colour charts for different dresses and materials, I ended up not knowing which was which! During this process at our back was 3 different brides trying on dresses at the same time. I felt sorry for the girls as choosing a dress should (in my eyes) be a special occasion, they looked as if they were in compition all trying to see in the mirror at the same time! Sorry Sarah Louise Bridal, very disappointed! I actually seen a gorgeous bridesmaid dress but refuse to purchase it from yourself due to the exceptionally poor customer service! read more

I had a lovely time...Karen was a total star! she made me feel v comfy. And she was soooo helpful. Would recommend. reasonably priced gowns too :D read more