Well I have been secretly looking for dresses in Tampa, when my mom told me to specifically wait until my trip home in two weeks. I have been a little excited about going to Demetrios Salon here in Tampa, to try a few dresses. I went to a bridal show with another friend, and they had a booth, so I signed up to go in during their trunk show. ::: The experience was HORRIBLE:: I went with two of my 9BM, so we are assigned a consultant, I can not even remember her name, come to think of it I do not think she gave us her name. She asked me what I was looking for, and not looking for. Then she told me to look through the dresses, OKAY. Why would you ask me what I was looking for if you were not going to pull anything. So we pulled some dresses, for the most part, the dresses were all like sizes 8, streets size 4-6. I am a size 9/10. So of the thousand dresses in the store, there were maybe 3 in a 10 or 12 I could try on. By this point I am feeling a little down, and BM are trying to cheer me up, because for 1. I am not fat, but Im not skinny either, but damn, can't a girl try on a dress in her size. So I tell the consultant my frustration, and she basically in so many words says that the average bride is a dress size 6-8 so they usually make their sample dresses to fit average size brides. A part of me wanted to go straight Diary of Mad Black Woman on this chick, but I couldn't. I didn't want to catch a charge, so I come out the dressing room, and tell my BM's who entail rips the woman and the manager whom came over to defend her comments, a new one. Needless to say I didnt find my dress there. So we ended up going to this other bridal boutique and had the total opposite experience, I tried on some Maggie's, Casablanca's and Winnie Couture. I didn't find "the" dress, but the owner Olga was so sweet, and told me if I found a dress on one of her designer sites she would order it in my size to try on, because she carried samples in sizes 10-14, she just didnt have ALL of the designer's line in the store at that given time. It felt good to go somewhere and try on dresses and not feel like a pot belly pig. Hell I could actually get into a dress size 10 and 12, the 10 was tight, but it gave me chance to see if I liked the gown:) Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.::On a good note, she carries Bari Jay so my BM got to try on their dress, and it is even more gorgeous in person:::