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For me, I visited mostly smaller bridal stores that will let you go through and pull the dresses you want to try on yourself. I started trying them on, and the consultant brought me dresses she thought I'd like based on what I was/wasn't liking. I originally wanted a simple, V neck style dress (pic 1). The dress I ended up buying was one I totally overlooked when looking through the store by myself, but the consultant was sure I'd love it (pic 2).
So I'm curious who all managed to pick a dress from a magazine, and loved it in person as well, and whose dress was brought to them by the staff at the bridal store.
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The attendant picked it out, but at this particular bridal store, they don't allow you to browse and pull things yourself.
I was a 2 dress bride so for the first dress that I bought, the sales consultant asked me to describe the look that I wanted for my wedding (which is black tie affair/romantic/classy) and I ended up buying a gown that fit that theme but that really wasn't me at all. Luckily I was blessed to get a full refund!
For my 2nd dress, I knew exactly what I wanted after crying over my mistake and looking at a million more gowns :) I love it!
My MOH picked it out. My sales consultant was great and laid back, she let us look around and pull any dresses we liked. It was my favorite and the first one I wanted to try on and it became the winner!
I knew that the store carried white dresses and so thought I'd check it out. I had a general idea of what they carried and what I liked and saw a dress that I sort of liked. Turns out the dress that I sort of liked was the predecessor to the dress that I bought! I think my mom pulled the dress.
My future MIL pulled my dress. She was in town for the weekend, and I was wanting to visit a local bridal salon that I hadn't been to before. While I was there trying on dresses, she was browsing through an Oklahoma bridal magazine. While standing there in another dress, she looked at me, pointed to it, and said, "we have to go try this on." We stopped by the other bridal store, I tried it on, and I absolutely lit up! It was exactly what I had been looking for! It's Huesca by Pronovias. I'll try to find a picture to post. It's not everyone's cup of tea, but I love it!
I went in with a very open mind, but I really hated lots of dresses on the racks.I wasn't 100% sure what i wanted b/c I know for a fact that what I like doesn't always translate to what looks good on my body.
The consultant CONVINCED me to put on my dress. I even grimaced at her, haha
Loved it! Bought it, walked out the door with it.
The consultant picked mine out! And it was like the last dress I tried on.
I was looking for something like this in theory. But when I put them on, I didn't feel like a bride:
I ended up with this:
(*not me!)
It's satin, NO lace! and it has beading.
Totally different, but I definitely felt like a bride in it! :)
I can't wait to get it when it comes in in March!
I went with a printout of dresses I hoped to try on. Dress #1 I loved and the back was beautiful and I hoped it would work---it tanked. Dress #2 the consultant pulled for me because it was on my list and then when we got around to trying it on she forgot I had it even on my list. Dress #2 was the one :)
I saw it on another bride at the salon and fell in love! It was totally what I didn't want too. Funny, once I had it on the same thing happened to another bride! She actually asked me to come stand next to her while she wore the other dress she was considering and she went with mine too!
missstepanie i love your dress... i went dress shooping onces... we browsed the store look at evry dress. choose some and trieed them on... i like one but my FI didnt like it... my mom is traveling form puerto rico to mass to help me get a dress... i have so many options and soooo different that i dont really know what i want....
some days i want a red dress, then other days i want a white, then other days i want it short and finally i want it long... i still dont know what i want
so my mom said she was coming to choose some dresses and help me deciding...
The consultant pulled out a dress with ruching and I thought "ew... but ok, I'll be polite and try it on" but i thought i wanted a lace trumpet dress. Turns out that lace was itchy and i absolutely loved the dress with ruching because it was dupioni silk and uber-glam. :-)
My Mom and I picked out a bunch and I found one I was sure I was going to buy. Before I could actually order it the consultant asked me if I'd be willing to try on one more dress and brought in the gown that I ended up totally loving and buying!! I'm so glad she didn't let me buy the other one!
Here's what I thought I wanted:
Or:
Here's what my mom picked out and what I fell in love with:
I tried everything anyone wanted me to on. The consultant pulled dresses for me to look at necklines, skirts, etc. Nothing fit what I wanted.
I didn't want strapless. I wanted off the sholder cap sleeves, lots of beading, and a long train.
I actually found a gown I liked, and thought about it for a month. Then we went back to make a decision, and the consultant showed me a dress that they had just gotten in. I knew it was the one before I tried it on.
After trying over 30 dresses that day (and 30 others on previous stores visits), I was tired, hungry and cranky and ready to leave the store and try again later... The store lady brought a dress that I didn't care about and asked if I would try it before leaving. I did, and the magic happened.. well it almost happened. The dress got a "mmmm maybe" from me. I figured that with the state that I was in at that point, the fact that this was the only dress that I hadn't rejected altogether was a good sign, so I went back the week after to try it on again.
Loved it!! So I decided that it would be that one, but already had an appointment somewhere else for the next week. I wanted to cancel but my mom insisted that we go. So we went, and there my mom pulled out a dress that made me question my choice of dress. That's when I collapsed. I cried, in the store, in the car... couldn't stop crying.
My mom brought me back to the other store on that same day so we had a clear memory of both dresses. The answer was finally clear!!
My dress was the first one, the one that the store lady pulled out for me. Dress shopping was not a happy experience for me, because finding my dress was sooo hard, but I love it and DH was stunned when he saw me in it. It was perfect! So ladies who might find it difficult, breathe, be patient (more than me!) and everything will come together in time. :)
Sorry, I have to post my dress again! :)
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I saw this ad in a bridal magazine on a Saturday, the following Monday I called around to find a shop in my area that actually had the dress for me to try on. I got really lucky that a dress shop about 45 minutes away was having a trunk show on the following Saturday, although the trunk show specials (20% off and free shipping) were good for the entire week!! I made an appt. for that Wednesday to try it on. It was my first and only dress I tried on and ordered it that day! =)
@otb I love your lace dress!! I had originally thought about going to try it on and then ended up ordering my dress!!! So pretty!!!
One of my bridesmaids is also getting married, so we went to the Running of the Brides together. One of her friends pulled it for her, and then I tried it on. I was sold!
My wedding dress is literally THE first dress I ever looked at and bookmarked. I liked a lot of other dresses and bookmarked them, took them with me to my Kleinfeld appointment, but the first dress I ever picked remained my favorite. Tried it on, it was still my favorite. It was meant to be! :)
I went into the store swearing that I wanted a ballroom style princess dress. I have never been more wrong.
I was also very open to having the consultant pick some dresses for me. They do this for a living... they really know what they are doing.
The first dress I tried on was one that the consultant picked. It ended up being the dress I chose. Nothing that I thought I wanted was "THE DRESS"
i didn't go to a wedding/bridal store, just a little boutique so my mom and i picked out 3 dresses, the last one i tried on was my dress.
I saw it on another bride and fought that b$%^& for it. lol.
Nah. I did see it on her, but I didn't fight her.
I had an appointment at the boutique that I knew I wanted to make my dress. I was waiting outside, and saw it in the window. We tried on dress designs in my price range, I asked to put that one on, I loved it, she told me it was $7500, I cried, she knocked off $3300, I wanted to hurl, I bought it.
My mom found mine! I thought I wanted a simple A-Line lace dress. Gorgeous, timeless, elegant. She and I even went to look casually one day and I found one just like that that I almost got. Then, while looking at the Casablanca website together over the phone (she lives in TN, I was in SC at the time), she came across my dress. While I thought it was pretty (I'd seen it in magazines numerous times), it just wasn't what I thought I wanted. It had a fuller skirt (didn't want) and no lace (did want). She went to her local bridal salon to see it in person. She fell in love with it. I was still wary. Then, she and my 2 MOH's came to visit a month later and the dress was at the first bridal salon we went into. I fell in love with it. I tried on others, but ended up with the one my mom knew I'd get all along! Mother really does know best!!!
i found mine.
but i came into the store with a specific picture in my head of what i wanted to look like.
i wanted all lace, no sparkley stuff, NOT WHITE, fit and flare, and strapless and i got:
it was exactly what i wanted and i knew it the second i saw it on the maniquin form!
I had already been dress shopping at two other stores when I stummbled across the Watters' website. I fell in love with the Harmony style and found out that a dress shop 10 minutes from my home carried Watters and WTOO. I walked into the store and immediately found my dress on my own along with a couple of other possibilities. I tried all of them on and just KNEW that Harmony was my dress! I went alone that day, so I flew home, talking to my my Mom on the phone. She was against me buying the dress because it was above our budget (she wanted to pay for my dress). I was bummed but went home to talk to FI. I couldn't tell him all of the details about the dress, but after talking about my experience with the dress he told me to go buy it if I wanted it! I put a deposit on the dress that day! In the end my Mom paid half and I paid half which is fine. Love my dress, it's only one for me :)
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my mom picked mine. it was on the mannequin and i thought it was too busy,but my mom said j"ust try it on for meeeee"
and i tried it on and it fit amazingly! she cried and my sister cried. i got it!! i cant wait to wear it!!
kitty chen couture legacy
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I pulled all my own dresses when I was trying them on but the bridal consultant showed me some that I liked too. But it was actually my mom who found my dress, which paging through a Maggie Sottero catalouge while I was trying on other dresses. A great coincidence!!!
I went in with some pics but didn't really use them.
The employee's gave me some clips so I could walk around, look, and clip the ones I was interested in. I'm not sure who clipped mine but I'm thinking it was me. I probably clipped around 8.
While trying them on she brought some more based on what I had to say about the ones I was trying.
Mine was the second one I tried on. I knew I loved it I just tried on more to see what else was out there. Looking at the pics I brought along it was very simiilar style.
my experience was a lot like jaylii9's.
saw the dress on online. attended a watters brides trunk show. saw THE dress, picked out another 5 or 6 i didn't love as much. tried on dress, had the whole "i'm-almost-hyperventilating" moment, saw the price tag, had the hyperventilation moment again (lol), placed a deposit on the dress the same night. it really was the dress, and everyone in the boutique knew, too. and i love the dress on me even more than in the pictures!
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I think my mom grabbed it off the rack. I wasn't sure about it, but when I put it on, it was perfect.
I was so picky and dead-set on certain things, there was no way a random dress a consultant pulled was going to work for me. I'd looked at so many dresses I felt like I knew everything out there by heart. Then my dress managed to surprise me...I went in that day specifially for the Lazaro trunk show discount, having tried on a bunch of his dresses before, and then as soon as I stepped in the store I saw this beauty. I knew I'd never seen it anywhere before even on the web or magazines, and that it wasn't in the store when I looked a week ago. It was just the prettiest dress I'd ever seen and I grabbed it right away, hypnotized. Then I found out, it had come in for the fashion show that morning and was not available for sale anywhere yet. I don't think the consultants had even had a chance to put it on any other girl yet! Guess it was just meant to be. I still struggle with doubts of how well it suits my body but I know for a fact it was the only dress that wowed me with its sheer beauty, it was kind of love at first sight.
Wow @monitajb, how did you manage to get them to come down THAT much in price? That's wonderful!
I happened to fall in love with my dress online, and then when I tried it on in the store I loved it on me too!
I didn't even want to try it on. I had been through about 50 dresses already and was about to call it. One of my bridesmaids was with me, she pulled it because she thought it looked like HER wedding dress. I tried it on as a joke and HATED it - I am not meant to wear a portrait neckline. But then my mom started fussing with it, tucked the straps in to make it a sweetheart, and I burst into tears because it was perfect.
Well, I walked in the store and my Mom and the Consultant kept grabbing dresses with "bling" and beading all over them...I wasn't having it! :) I wanted plain, simple, beautiful, some rouching maybe... finally the consultant pulled a plain dress with rouching...I couldn't really tell the shape...I put it on and felt at home. :) It was the first dress I tried on...
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