I feel as thought I *ought* to like this place because I bought my wedding dress there, but in…read morereality, every time I went there after I bought my dress was a hassle and half.
Let me at least start with the positive - they have a great selection with fair prices, and the staff was handy with suggestions in helping me find a dress that fit my style. They also bit the cost with their mistakes, which I appreciate.
And then comes trouble. I had read the Yelp reviews before going there and had heard the horrible things about how they run late. Because they were the only ones in the area with the dress I liked, I decided to risk it, but to play it safe, I had to lie and say my wedding was 3 months earlier than it actually was. AND THANK GOD I DID. I wish I were being overdramatic about this, but I'm not. For a May 9th wedding, we told them February 9th, and ordered in February the year before (2013). They told me the dress would be in around October/November. Okay, fine no problem. I also ordered a halter strap for the dress, 2 bridesmaids dresses, and a dress I just thought was pretty. Those dresses hadn't had their prices adjusted, so they gave us the discount price. I was happy!
October, nothing. November, nothing. December, nothing. In fact, nothing until 15 days before our supposed wedding date! All of my calls, when eventually transferred to the manager were met with "It's being shipped." Well unless it's being shipped via pony express on a lame horse, I don't think it takes that long to ship anything! The dress came in . . . and they had forgotten the halter strap! Just completely forgotten. One week before the "wedding," they ended up just giving me their display strap from the store, although they claimed it was the brand new one (nope - I could tell it was slightly used, and the shelf one was missing. That's okay though, they gave me a great discount for it - I just would have liked some HONESTY!)
The bridesmaid dresses were another story. They came in even later than the wedding dress. One had a stain on it, which I asked them to remove. They tried to convince me it was just chalk and I could do it myself, but when I insisted that they take care of it (liability and all), they refused until the manager came in the next morning, just in case "something happened." Um, I thought it was just chalk? Luckily that came out though.
For dress #3, my "extra" dress, they redeemed themselves a bit. I had ordered it in a different color than my bridesmaid dresses, and they sent the wrong color. They told me they woudl not be able to fix it in time for my event, so they just gave me the dress for free (minus my downpay). I thought that was rather nice of them, but also by this point I wasn't too fond of their service.
If I hadn't lied about my wedding date, I would have been beyond upset and had to pay several up-charges to rush the fitting of my dress. My dress was worth the headache, but I think it would have been easier to drive to a further place to avoid the hassle of poor customer service. I don't appreciate lies and rudeness, and would advocate that they get their act together. It's a nice store, but needs to treat their customers much better.