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Hum...Everywhere I've been has let me take pictures. Dunno what to tell you :/
Yep. Salon I went to had a big No Photographs Please sign.
When I go for my first fitting, I am taking pictures. I've bought the dress, dammit.
With the number of places that do knockoff dresses, I would assume that forbidding pictures would keep that to a minimum. True, you could always give them a picture of some other bride in the soon-to-be-yours dress, but you wouldn't be able to give them a picture of you in it and say "this is what I liked vs what I didn't like regarding this dress on me."
Maybe because in a dressing room, you can take more detailed photos, and then could potentially take them to a dress designer and have it recreated? I'm not sure...
I know when I went, even the places that "technically" didn't allow pictures let us take them if we asked nicely. So hopefully they won't be sticklers when you go. You can always try sneaking a pic if they leave the room!
It's so you can't go to another stoer and show them the dress and ask for the same thing or something similar. And to prevent you from having a seamstress make a copy of the dress. I find it ridiculous. No one stopped me from taking pics at any of the threee slaons I went to.
I think the real reason they don't want you to take photos of the dress is so you don't take the photos somewhere else and have it made for a lot cheaper. I know you can look up the dresses online and such, but in the store you can take really close up and detailed pics, and then send it to one of the places in China and but it for like $300. I have seriously considered this. I have been to three stores so far, and only one has let me take pics.
And also, maybe they want you to keep coming back to look it.
Oh, and everywhere I went allowed pictures. Some even encouraged it!
i agree on the replication route... but i think it definitely sucks!!
We had a couple places like that where I used to live in grad school. This really hurt some of the girls that were far away from home and couldn't have their mom or sister or grandma be there. In other shops they'd text pictures and have a ball but the shop that said no pictures caused tears.
Of course they didn't get their dress from there then, especially after the owner said she wasn't comfortable with girls trying on dresses without their mothers there supporting them (well it's hard when they live across an ocean), way to make people cry.
So not many grad students went to those shops anymore. Bad policies should get less customers.
I was able to take them in all the stores I went to. Afterall, my mom wasn't with me and I told them I would never buy a dress without her opinion. But, i wasn't looking at really expensive dresses either.
That is all so stupid--you can find photos of the dresses online, on real brides, on the website, etc. What's the difference if it's on you?!
The first salon I went to had this rule, because they carry a designer (I can't remember who...) Who doesn't do any online advertising, and not all salons that carry that designer get the same dresses. So they were uber concerned about knock-offs.
Oh I totally plan to take pics everywhere I go. I can be stealth :) I have no plans to have a seamstress make anything for me... I am just a super cautious person and I will not buy the first time I try a dress on.
I think the salons that don't allow pictures are also the ones who are likely to rip out or hide the tags (or are not forthcoming with style number information) so you don't know who made the dress, and therefore can't go elsewhere to buy it.
All of the places I went to did not let us take photographs. I think I went to 5 in the bay area, ca. There were signs and attendants who would not leave my side.
I visited 4 stores in total (3 salons and David's) and was able to take pictures at each one (I usually would even as if it was ok and they always said yes... some places the sales girls even helped me take them).
I would be really uncomfortable not being able to take pics- it really helped me decide on one... and also I was able to share them w/ my mom before making the final choice (since she lives far away).
Not sure why some stores have these policies - but it would not make me want to do business with them. What other type of store operates with all these weird rules?
The first salon I went to (note above post, same place) the consultant never left me alone in the dress. If she wanted to grab a veil or something, she would have someone else get it for her. So it was pretty impossible to take pictures. I didn't end up buying there because the consultant was kind of bitchy and I was really just getting an idea of what I liked. The only time she left was after I had tried all the dresses on and was taking some back to hang up. The salon was tiny, and so they had really big dressing rooms so your entourage just got in the dressing room with you and the constultant
I was finding that the only places that didn't let me take pictures were the more fancy boutiques (Macys. Vera Wang, etc.). I think it's a crappy rule.
If a bride wants to replicate a dress, she'll do it, whether she has a picture or not. I really don't think that having a no-photo policy is really going to help the gown industry at all.
Also, it's a big purchase for most women. I want pictures of me in the dress so I can make sure I photograph well in it. There were a few dresses I tried on that I thought looked really good on me, even standing in front of a mirror, but for some reason, I looked weird in pictures, and the dress just wasn't quite right. There's also a difference between trying on the dress in the salon, with the excitement (or the stress) of the experience, as opposed to going home and taking the time to think about it - while looking at a photo reminder.
I think brides should be able to click away while trying on dresses.
@otb- I have heard that some consultants won't leave your side... did you ever try asking her to? lol. I am pretty direct. I would have no problem whatsoever saying: Could you please give my mother and I some time alone to talk about this dress? I am uncomfortable with most sales people as it is so I would rather they not hover. If she said no I'd probably say... okay then BYE.
I have heard this too, but have never had a problem. In fact, the salon I where I bought my dress helped us bustle it and everything so we would have photos of that (to show my dad and such). They actually encouraged us to take photos - I honestly think that the salons who say that you can't, are giving bogus answers and are just being ridiculous.
Bella
I agree that I think it's about the replication issue - but given all the pictures of dresses everywhere, it seems pretty silly.
The salon I bought my dress from does not allow any photos, even after purchase. And, I was never left "alone" with my dress, i.e. the bridal consultant always unzipped me and whisked it away to be hung up - my guess is so that I could noy attempt to sneak a photo while behind the curtain, whether the dress was on the hanger or still on me. However, they did tell me the manufacturer and style number so I could find the dress online. Other salons allowed me to take all the photos I desired.
Every store I went to would not allow me to take pictures. It is so that you cant try to replicate the dress. I think its stupid because the designer always have pictures of the dresses online. If someone really wanted a dress replicated they could just find the dress online.
None of the stores I visited allowed photos. It is tough to decide without a picture.
Honestly I couldn't chose a dress without going home and thumbing through the pics of me in the dress!
I went to one out of four stores that didnt let me take pictures. Everyone else even offered to take pictures. So weird because they werent custom dresses, they were Maggie Sottero that I could look at online. I was bummed at the one place because I have a short term memory with certain things - once I took a dress off I couldnt remember what it looked like on later!
@Corgi: I got my dress at David's which of course allows pictures. However, I got my veil at a local salon that had a No Photographs Please Untill After Dress is Purchased sign. Which I thought hmmm ok. But this same salon let me bring in my David's dress to try on veils with...They said most places do not allow this but it was fine with them. Now that I'm looking back and thinking about it, I find that kinda odd. They wont let you take pictures but they will let you bring in another stores dress? I don't know why they have all these crazy "rules".
Lots of places I went didn't allow photos (even though the Yelp reviews said they did, that's part of the reason I picked the shops). I find it so dumb though...and hate to see the girls on SYTTD come in for their fitting and cry because they didn't remember the dress that way. My little sis took sly pics of me trying on dresses with her camera phone though, so there is a way around it if you must have that photo!
Corgi - I know you are in Columbus, we went to Wendy's Bridal, (Dublin,) this past weekend, (I am the MOH,) and they forbid pictures. We had a really rude lady "helping" us out, and I was not thrilled with the shop. So, I snuck pictures on my phone when the lady walked away or had her back to us. Good luck, and if you try Wendy's, let me know if you have any success :)
My salon let me take pictures, except of one line called Farage.
Weird too, that I see some people on here say that certain salons let them take photos of everything except Maggies.
I tried on several Maggies and they didn't mind me taking pics of those at all. Seems like no pics would be a "Maggie" rule, and not an individual salon rule. So strange, these shops!!
I bought a Maggie Sottero gown from a salon in my area and the consultant helping me happened to be the salon manager and owner.
I tried on the first dress and my mom went to grab the camera and the consultant was really apologetic and asked that we not take pictures because it's at the request of the dress designers. Whatev. We put the camera away.
I agree with a lot of other people, though - I was really paranoid about buying a dress without having pictures of me in it to make sure I photographed well. I got lucky with the Maggie dress I bought because I bought it that day and came back a couple days later to get pictures of me in it and I was very pleased with how I looked in it.
Just a week or so before I had gone to a Group USA and tried on dresses that I thought looked better on me than they came across in pictures. Thank God for those pictures, or else I would have bought a dress that I looked like a Mack truck in.
I don't really get the no pictures policy. I get that they don't want replicas made of cheaper quality, but for every girl who buys a replica, I'm sure there are 2 girls who want the real thing. I dunno.
A lot of the higher-end designers do not allow photographs to be taken of their dresses without prior consent, and I think the salons have to sign something agreeing to not allow photos before purchase. It was a bummer, but I got used to it after a while and managed to get a ipohne photo of mine secretly in the dressing room anyways :)
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I haven't been shopping yet but I've heard that a lot of salons do not allow you to take photos of yourself in a dress until after you've purchased it. I'm watching a SYTTD rerun and the manager said that the reason they do that is "to protect the designers from having photos of their dresses out there." But ummmmm after people buy them there are photos EVERYWHERE. I mean you'll never have more photos taken than at your wedding... so it isn't like dresses are actually a secret.
I would think it would be a good thing to have photos of yourself in dresses so you could go home and compare later with a clear head (or between multiple salons). So what do you think the real reason is that you can't take photos? Just to pressure you into buying asap? Is there something I'm not thinking of?