(Closed) Bridesmaid Dress Shopping or Why I hate condescending salesbi***es

posted 8 years ago in Bridesmaids
Post # 1
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2788 posts
Sugar bee
  • Wedding: January 2011

Let me set the scene for you lovely ladies.

We are on vacation with FIs family – all 20 of us crammed into FIs aunt’s shore house.  I’ve gone every year and we always have a blast, albeit very crowded, blast.

This morning, I decided that I should make good use of this vacation and take my jr. Bridesmaid or Best Man (FI’s eldest female cousin) out dress shopping to pick out her gown for the wedding. Fun, right? I thought so. 

Well within 15 minutes, not only was my jr. Bridesmaid or Best Man coming, but her mom (FI’s aunt 1), Future Mother-In-Law, my flower girl, her mom (FI’s aunt 2) and FI’s grandmom and I were all in the van heading to the bridal salon.

I had called in advance, not only to set up our initial appointment, but to advise that we would be bringing quite the entourage to the appointment. All was well on the trip over.

Well, let me tell you, once we walked into the store all bets were off. The lady (with whom I spoke with to set up the appointment) totally blew me off when I introduced myself and my BM/flower girl. She started grumbling that her assistant called out sick and told us to pick out dresses ourselves. This would possibly be understandable, BUT WE WERE THE ONLY PEOPLE IN THE STORE. Then! and the next serious of events really ticked me off, she fought with me over the dress designer I had chosen, tried to bully me into picking another designer, and then said to my Future Mother-In-Law while I stood right next to them “Oh well, I tried to make her choose another designer for the gowns. She wants a fabric that’s hard to come by. But she wouldn’t accept my opinion.”

Are you serious? No, I don’t want to chose another desginer; most of my BMs have ordered their dresses already. Do not refer to me in the third person while I am standing next to the person you are speaking with. And do not, do not talk on the phone, while my party is your only customer, instead of helping my BM/flower girl into their dresses!

UGH!!!!!!!!!!!

Please feel free to share your stories of crazy bridal saleswomen…

Post # 3
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85 posts
Worker bee
  • Wedding: September 2010

I hope you didn’t give that store your business!

I had a woman who tried to pressure me into buying a dress without my mom present (when I told her I was NOT going to do that), tried to get me to buy a dress that killed my pale complexion, and told me repeatedly about how much I needed to tan, whiten my teeth, etc.  She also informed me that I looked “hideous” in any dress but the sample that she was trying to sell me that moment.  I firmly told her that I would NOT buy the dress, that I wanted to look like myself on the wedding day, and that I would be booking another appointment with another consultant (the store was great).  The next woman was warm and friendly, and pulled several amazing dresses.  I guess it’s luck of the draw with bridal consultants!

Post # 4
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42 posts
Newbee
  • Wedding: September 2010

My story happened after all my bm’s ordered their dresses.

One had ordered her dress about 8 weeks prior (and they had said six weeks) so her and I start to get a little worried. I call the store and they go find the dress and say oh yea its been since Xdate (which was about 5 weeks prior), so I asked “do you not notify people that their dresses came in?” She told me they emailed my bridesmaid (my bm’s fault for giving them her school email when she doens’t check it over the summer) and I was like, “so once you never heard from anyone you didn’t think to call anyone?” The sales person starts to get a little snippy and says ” well we call after the dress has been in the store three weeks” Ok… so I politely explain that would have been the week of y date and as soon as she realized I could tell time and they screwed up she got pissed and said well its barely been three weeks and then I got aggravated and said “no you’e missed on calling us 3 times no if you really do call after three weeks, I want to talk to your manager because I don’t like oyur attitude” and then I found out she was the manager. WTF?

 

I will never myself purchasing anything from DB and tell everyone else not to deal with them either

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