Anyone else buy a "private collection" dress?
I picked up my dress today after having some iffy feelings about the shop throughout the process (took my dress 8 months to show up!)... tried it on, liked it, but not sure I am head over heels in love with it, but sort of brushed that under the rug and thought I was just being nervous and second-guessing my choice.
But it was bugging me all day, and when I bought the dress the shop told us it was from a private collection, they only sell 3 of each dress. Stupid gaggle of girls were like "oh, cool." Only later do I start reading about all of the scams out there... and so today I checked the tag on the dress and the tag says "Private Collection" as if that is the designer. Can't find anywhere online and I have a gut feeling that it's a less expensive, not-designer dress that we still paid 1,100 dollars for and I'm sort of sick to my stomach about it.
The dress was more than I had wanted to spend, but we liked it after trying on 15 dresses so bought it!! In hindsight, if I had knew I was going to spend that much I could have gotten an ACTUAL designer gown and would have had a lot more to choose from... so now I"m confused about my feelings about the dress...
My mom paid for the dress... should I be honest with her? Or just suck it up? I'm confused. I feel like if I loved it as much as I should love "the one" I wouldn't care if I got ripped off or where it came from. But It's just really irking me that it seems like bridal shops use the "Exclusive" private label line to get unsuspecting brides to pay lots of money for a dress they can buy online for less than half the price.
If you google "private collection" a bunch of wholesale wedding sites come up. and If I search the "style" number online... nothing...
Just need to vent and I thank you for listening!! anyone else have experience like this??