Just wanted to give my feedback on David’s Bridal v Impression Bridal in Kennesaw. My biggest piece of advice is to calm down and enjoy the experience. This was really my first big wedding related event and I was worried about being overwhelmed. I went in with a wall up and I knew I should have enjoyed it more…I have learned my lesson and all my other vendor meetings have been going well since then!
I went to David’s on Friday afternoon (3/16), because I heard they were really busy on the weekends. When I arrived for my 1pm appointment they were running 30 mins behind. Their excuse was that everyone showed up for their appointments, and David’s intentionally double books because they don’t expect people to show up, a pretty horrible excuse. By the time we picked out a few bridesmaids dresses for my sister to try and the 3 dresses for me to try, they had a room ready. I was a little annoyed that they only had room, since I told them both at the initial booking and the confirmation that my sister would be there to try on dresses too. My consultant was really wonderful, supportive, and creative - she was just too busy. I ended up trying on 4 or 5, and they were all beautiful, and my mother loved one of them, but I was having a hard time comparing the dresses as they were all beautiful. I wanted a tea length dress for the bridesmaids and they only had 2 styles which were horrible.
Then we went across the street to Impressions. The place was dead; we were the only customers there. I tried on another 3 or 4, and while pretty they didn’t wow. They were more expensive than the David’s dresses and they didn’t have the foundation garments for you to try on with the dresses. They kept trying to impress me with designer names; I don’t care who made the dress, I just care what it looks like on me. However, they did have a ton of sophisticated, wearable, and re-wearable bridesmaids dresses and we ended up picking one of them. We were told it would take 3-4 months to order.
We ended up going back to David’s and I tried the very first dress on again. It was the one my mother loved and putting it back on after the others, it gave me tingles. My mother went out to the car and grabbed her veil from her wedding 30 yrs ago (that I will be using as my something old) and when the lace on the veil matched the dress, I knew it was meant to be. It was an amazing deal, we ended up getting a brand new dress ordered for 50% off, so I actually got a dress $300 over budget for $100 under budget. I was told the dress would take a month to order, but it only took 2 weeks.
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