Landy Bridal

sal-ad_daze

Hi Vicky,
From what I've read, Milly is a bit more expensive than Landy but will show you pics through the production stage and make any alterations you request.
I suppose, for piece of mind, people will pay the little extra. Landy has more colour choice.
I don't know what the communication is like as we haven't got that far yet.
HTH

northernflasher

Violetta wrote: »

Kind of connected. There was an article in The Sunday post about a bride who had ordered a dress for £1000 from a bridal shop. The dress company mistakenly sent the dress invoice to the bride not the shop. The invoice was £250, that is quite a mark up!!!. I would love to hear from someone who runs a bridal shop how much a dress costs them & how much they sell it on for.

What a great question, cant see anyone taking you up on it though LOL :T

madfrenchgirl

Just a tidbit of info I got from Peng at Sweetsend in Reading: she said she was operating form her house because she had looked into renting a proper shop in the city centre of Reading and the rent was about 3G a month. By operating from home, she could cut down her overheads and was able to sell dresses at 500 instead of 800.

To be taken with a pinch of salt, tbh, judging where ti came from. Just like some bridal shop owners blatantly slagging Landy, Milly & Sweetsend. Always watch out where you get the info from.

nat82

Vicsta007 wrote: »

Hi i was wondering if you have the milly website, so far ive only found the landybridal website and it seems amazing, but i hear millys is better, hopeing to hear from you soon.

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Vicky:T

This is the link for Milly Bridal.

EDIT: Sorry picklepick! Just noticed you already posted it!

IWantToBeFree_2

Violetta wrote: »

Kind of connected. There was an article in The Sunday post about a bride who had ordered a dress for £1000 from a bridal shop. The dress company mistakenly sent the dress invoice to the bride not the shop. The invoice was £250, that is quite a mark up!!!. I would love to hear from someone who runs a bridal shop how much a dress costs them & how much they sell it on for.

People have got to make a living somehow... Maybe the shops charging higher mark ups are the shops that people go to to try dresses on with no intention of buying them and therefore wasting the owners time and taking up time that someone who genuinely wants to buy a dress from there could have had.

The shop I got my dress from is always stupidly busy as they are specialist, and they offer 2 hour appointments, I feel sorry for them if they get a large amount of people who go in to try dresses on so they can just go and buy a rip off version from China... They are having to turn people down at the minute for appointments at peak times, yet still probably get time wasters through their door, so can you blame them for pushing their prices up to accomodate for this loss of earnings.

My dress was bought through a shop, and I think they have more than done enough for their money regardless of how much the dress was. The appointments, the several fittings etc etc....

Put it this way, would you buy something for £100 and then sell it on for £100 or would you sell it on for a price people are willing to pay to further yourself and make a bit of money... I know what I would rather do! Not to mention the fact that the money made on the dresses is staying in this country, going to people who spend their money in this country, and businesses that pay tax in this country so boosting the flailing economy rather than just throwing it all at the Chinese to make immitation dresses....

Rant over!

lindaatno9

I work from home for those exact reasons. I used to have a shop but by the time I'd paid out for expenses, rent, lightling etc, those costs have to be met somewhere, usually the customer. I wanted to work in a way that I can make the profit on making the dress but pass on the discounts I get from the fabric suppliers to the customer. All I am interested is being paid for my skill, not making excess on fabrics. When I get silk for £9.00m I charge that to the customer, not £12-15 pounds per meter. So, we both win. Customer gets a good deal and I get paid for doing what I love!

madfrenchgirl

Operating from home/working from home/etc... is now possible provided you use the right tools: in thsi day and age, it is a lot easier to get setup for a miserable fraction of the cost. Setting up a website is peanuts compared to setting up shop.

lindaatno9

madfrenchgirl wrote: »

Operating from home/working from home/etc... is now possible provided you use the right tools: in thsi day and age, it is a lot easier to get setup for a miserable fraction of the cost. Setting up a website is peanuts compared to setting up shop.

Exactly, and the difference I have now to what I had then is the internet. Work came to me by word of mouth. I could advertise yes, but this all cost money which would indeed filter down to the customer.
Cost of setting up at home-nothing
Cost of printing a few flyers -nothing really
Cost of web site-nothing
cost of advertising-nothing because i've used free ads.
Cost being passed to customer-nothing!!!
I am told I should charge for lighting/heating etc in my costings, but what the heck, I use those for the family.

People want quality for a fraction of the cost, fact. Not being cheap, tight, stingy etc it's just a fact.

mshelsbels

IWantToBeFree wrote: »

People have got to make a living somehow... Maybe the shops charging higher mark ups are the shops that people go to to try dresses on with no intention of buying them and therefore wasting the owners time and taking up time that someone who genuinely wants to buy a dress from there could have had.

The shop I got my dress from is always stupidly busy as they are specialist, and they offer 2 hour appointments, I feel sorry for them if they get a large amount of people who go in to try dresses on so they can just go and buy a rip off version from China... They are having to turn people down at the minute for appointments at peak times, yet still probably get time wasters through their door, so can you blame them for pushing their prices up to accomodate for this loss of earnings.

My dress was bought through a shop, and I think they have more than done enough for their money regardless of how much the dress was. The appointments, the several fittings etc etc....

Put it this way, would you buy something for £100 and then sell it on for £100 or would you sell it on for a price people are willing to pay to further yourself and make a bit of money... I know what I would rather do! Not to mention the fact that the money made on the dresses is staying in this country, going to people who spend their money in this country, and businesses that pay tax in this country so boosting the flailing economy rather than just throwing it all at the Chinese to make immitation dresses....

Rant over!

Oooh, I think you have to be very very careful with this one - its kind of a sweeping statement!

The reason most of us brides on here by from Landy and the like is purely and simply down to finances. (Its a bit like buying fruit and veg .....personally I'd love to buy all my food from the UK, but sadly cannot afford to do so)

I'm sure no-one likes to be ripped off - especially as quite a few companies do add a '0' when you mention the word 'wedding'. This is why some of us have to cut back on things like a £2000 wedding dress so we can afford a reception / honeymoon / photographer etc etc. It all comes back to finances. I think its wonderful that Landy offer us the chance to have a dress of our dreams thus enabling us to have the wedding of our dreams, instead of getting into more and more debt.
Imagine what THAT would do to our 'flailing economy'??

IWantToBeFree_2

I don't have a problem with people buying from Landy if that is what they wish to do.

But I don't like it when they mock wedding boutiques prices, because in my opinion, they are a contributing factor to the higher prices for the reasons mentioned above!