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I had a friend who got her wedding dress there an she had a great experience.  I am planning on having my Bridesmaids get their dresses from there, just because only two live locally to me and the rest live in Chicago, Idaho and Arizona. 

Has anyone had experiences with bridesmaids dresses there?

I didn't end up buying my dress from DB, but I had a really pleasant experience...on a Saturday afternoon, no less. It was a lot busier than the smaller boutiques, but my consultant made sure that she was entirely focused on me and one other bride, and she brought dresses that were along the lines of what I had told her I liked (which essentially meant...no strapless dresses.)

I'm sorry you had such a terrible experience!

I had an okay experience with them. I didn't love the service, but the girl was pretty attentive and brought things based on what I said I was looking for. I was happier with DB than the first salon I went to, because I let slip that I wasn't "officially" engaged yet at that point, and the first salon completely blew me off at that point. I would never give them my business now that I AM engaged, because of the way they acted. DB at least treated me as well as anyone else, even if that wasn't great.

I've heard/read a TON of horror stories about them too. I know they overcharged me by a LOT on alterations to a bm dress I got there. I basically only went because at that point I just wanted to try on lots of styles and it seemed like a good place for that.

I definitely would recommend anyone stay away from them. There are plenty of places to get better service, better quality, AND better prices. And I second everything Jessie516 said about giving out personal info. I wound up on SO many freaking call/mailing lists!

I work for The Men's Wearhouse, and we have some kind of partnership with DB, where we can match *some* of their bm dress colors and stuff. So I get a ton of customers coming over from them and I just want to tell them to run, don't shop with DB! But I'm pretty sure that'd get me fired so...

I agree that DB does not have the best customer service. I tried on wedding gowns there but ended up getting my designer dress at a charity gown sale for the same price as a cheaply made DB dress.

However, I do think it is a great option for bridesmaid dresses. They are inexpensive and there are many styles in each color so that everyone feels comfortable. I know that most girls won't wear a bridesmaid dress again no matter how nicely it is made, so for me and my budget-conscious friends, it was the right choice.

The most horror stories I have heard were of the alterations dept. which we are not even dealing with. If someone needs somethin fixed, they are to go to another reputable tailor!

I went with a friend to DB after she had bought her dress and was there for alterations. We couldn't get any assistance and when we finally did the attendent brought her dress (which she had never taken out of the store) and it had a run in the fabric. The attendent tried to tell us it wasn't a problem that her dress would be fine, but we insisted they repair the problem. Later that afternoon when trying on BM dresses we got zero help.

 I will never give a dime to DB. I got a great deal on my dress at a locally owned bridal store and got great service.

I got my bridesmaid dress there for a July wedding, and the service was absolutely terrible.  The people working there were so rude and short.  The worker who helped us that day was so rude.  She insisted on taking our measurements, and when I asked why she said they keep them on for their records even though I knew the exact size I needed and had just tried it on in the dress we were getting.  I asked her to discreetly write them down, as my measurements are nobody's business but mine, she barked them out to another associate, loud enough for people in a 5 mile radius to hear... until she got to the hip measurement, and then she said, and I QUOTE! "Oh this is bad I won't say this out loud".  You can just imagine the four letter words running through my mind at that time. 

Unfortunately, I live in Dayton, OH where the wedding business seems to be about a decade behind the times, and I ooze jealousy while reading the blogs of the fabulous bees who live in areas that are way more condusive to wedding planning.  DB is unfortunately one of the few places in the area to get affordable gowns and bm dresses, so most people use them. 

Oh not to mention my dress had been in for two weeks and they didn't even bother to call the bride or myself. Yuck.

I went to DB as my first dress shopping stop to 'get an idea of what I liked.' Well, that did not happen, because they refuse to show you what you say you like. The girl that helped me was really nice but the manager was audibly yelling at her to be more agressive and push the expensive styles so instead of a simple dress with minimal train that I was asking for, she kept bringing over big princessy gowns with cathedral trains. They were horribly generic and looked cheaper than my prom dress. But they weren't THAT cheap. I was afraid when most of the dresses I tried there were over $1000 thinking, like suzanno said, that meant bridal salons would be many times more expensive than that. But I ended up getting a much nicer dress for around $800 at a salon. And yes, there were other dresses that were many times more expensive, I'm just saying you don't have to go to DB to stay in budget. I feel like you are paying for convenience there, like buying something out of a vending machine instead of the grocery store, you get so much less and pay about the same amount. 

@ Liz.Smith - LOL, I had a conversation with a MW guy at a wedding expo and he would not stop bringing up the DB partnership... it's not a selling point buddy.