My dress may or may not get in before my wedding date (19 days).. despite ordering it March 6th. As annoyed as I am (and trust me.. I am annoyed!) .. at least my sister's dress fits me! But the update is actually about her dress..
So my sister (married Aug 28, 2010) had issues with her dress too! I had this huge suspicion that the dress was second hand.. but didn't want to push it because I didn't want to cause stress (and I didn't want to ruin my sister's big day in "her" dress). Now that her day has passed.. I feel it is ok to "investigate." If it really was fake.. I want my sister to get her $1k back (BTW.. my sister works as a waitress and saved up her tips for months to buy this dress.. it means the world to me that she wasn't robbed!!!!)
She ordered the dress well over a year in advance.. but the dress shop kept putting her off about when it was coming in. So I emailed the dress company to find a tracking #. They told me they never sold this style number to the bridal shop. The next thing we know- the bridal shop produces the dress. My sister tries it on to find and it only goes to her ankles (her beautiful dress looked super cheap on her!). The bridal shop claimed they "forgot to order extra length" but my sister isn't a giant (she is 5'8" or 5'9")... it shouldn't have been that short. They offered to fix it for free .. so we didn't put up a fight. (BTW, the dress is from the fall 2007 collection.. so it could have easily been purchased, worn, then sold to my sister.)
Casablanca told me to email them the number on the tag so they can track when it was bought. I couldn't find the number on my sister's dress.. instead I found a tag that looked cut.
Fast forward to today. I told the owner of my dress company that my family can't go through all this dress drama again- we had enough. She asked me what I meant- so I told her about my sister's dress (we used different bridal shops). The owner let me take pictures of what the tag should look like.. and sure enough.. I was right .. the tag was cut.
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Sorry if this was too long to read. I just need to focus on something other than waiting for my dress to arrive. ... I just can't believe there can be so much drama involved in getting a wedding dress!
BTW.. I know how unlikely it is that we will get our $ back (but I do like to hope!). We have no proof we weren't the ones to cut the tag... that the tag came to us cut.. but still.. I feel all we need to do.. is get the ball rolling with media, law suit, or whatever.. and put it on the dress company to prove this dress is an original.