So I don't post very often, mostly lurk and comment here and there but thought I would share. Mainly just to vent some frustration.
I live in a remote northern Canada location and there isn't a dress shop anywhere close by. So my FI and I arranged vacation time to coincide with Canadian Thanksgiving and headed to our home town (where we are getting married) to visit and get as much wedding planning things done as possible.
Since we were on a time constraint I needed to buy the dress during the appointment. I didn't have time to boutique hop etc. As this trip was going to be the last trip down until the spring as its just not worth braving 7 hours in the snow to come down. I had made an appointment at Davids Bridal thinking they would have the biggest selection in my price range.
I had chosen 7 dresses ahead of time to try on. They had 2 of those in the store. They gave me an ipad to check off dresses i wanted them to pull and out of those dresses they had 1. So kind of a pointless method of choosing a dress in my opinion. My 'consultant' had 3 other brides booked at the same time as me and I barely saw her. (Thankfully my mother and sister were able to pull dresses for me).
After choosing a dress, we were supposed to pick bridesmaid dresses, which we had indicated when booking the appointment. The consultant comes over to tell me that it is now past closing time. They had apparently changed the store hours. That week. And didn't tell us. I tried to remain calm and asked the lady why she didn't give us any warning as to the store closing as my girls could have easily tried on dresses while I was trying on mine and she said 'oh I just figured you could come back another day to do that" I explained that I had drove 7 hours to be there and that I would like them to 'make this right' and the best they could do is squeeze the girls in later this week to come in alone. Because they were completely overbooked for the week. So I told them that we didnt need a consultant, just a dressing room because I didn't want to take away from any other brides time. And I just told my girls what colour I wanted and told them to get whatever dress they wanted.
So. pretty frustrating experience for sure, and just a heads up to other brides out there that 'booking an appointment' at Davids Bridal may mean that you are sharing time with 3 other ladies. I had actually originally planned on shopping by myself and I am so glad I didnt as I would have had no way to pull dresses or have help to put them on.
BUT at the end of the day. I got a super pretty dress and it was only 700$. So YAY!