Wedding tips

wifeforlife

thefreckle wrote: »

Avoid them like the plague! Very difficult to deal with

I really liked the girls in perfect day, as a short dumpy bride to be myself I thought they were awesum. I didn't buy my dress from them but that was because i found the 'one' in another shop

Ive got my dress in Elody bridal newry in the end, they're great too obviously.

Let me be honest with you though, there is really only about 8 different styles, don't try on dresses of the same styles until your DD knows what suits her height and shape, only when she picks a certain style would I bother really with details and thats when you'll pick a certain retailer over others.

If she's 5'4 and a size 10 + 8 she can have mine in the summer lol :rotfl:

karmartello

Thank you everyone for all your suggestions and positive support, and advice on who should be avoided.

We are really looking forward to the wedding and the planning of it but it's knowing where the bargains are to be found.

I have a lot of things to look at and will enjoy investigating all the suggestions made.

Thanks again and I will keep you all posted.

PS - I live in the East Belfast/Holywood area.

thefreckle

tara747 wrote: »

I would avoid Perfect Day too. I've heard lots and lots of horror stories about them.

The SA was so nasty to my friend when she was dress shopping, making snide remarks about her weight when she was the size of a house herself :eek: This was 3 months ago btw.

Absolutely awful.

I've heard the horror stories and experienced them. It seems their two most common lies are:

1) This is next years dress that we've got in early - you won't get this anywhere else until next year

2) We are exclusive stockists of this dress - you won't get it anywhere else

As I said, avoid like the plague. They do not get next years dresses and they are not exclusive stockists

tara747

thefreckle wrote: »

I've heard the horror stories and experienced them. It seems their two most common lies are:

1) This is next years dress that we've got in early - you won't get this anywhere else until next year

2) We are exclusive stockists of this dress - you won't get it anywhere else

As I said, avoid like the plague. They do not get next years dresses and they are not exclusive stockists

That sounds about right. When I was in with my friend, they spun her all sorts of nonsense lines. It makes me cross even thinking about it.

I also saw (via a wedding blog on FB) a bride asking where she could find 3 BM dresses cheaply, her budget was about £100-120 per dress. The owner of Perfect Day barged into the thread and belittled the poor bride, saying that no way could you ever get a BM dress that cheap. I felt so sorry for her. Thankfully others came to her rescue with helpful suggestions and I'm sure that she got sorted in the end.

My MIL mentioned that she might go there for her outfit for our wedding (she's from the area so had heard of Perfect Day), I advised her not to and told her about our experience, she was horrified! :eek:

MegNificent

Hi, I'm a plus size bride and getting married in August. I got my dress from Angel Star Brides in Carrickfergus. They have a huge range and are plus size specialists. I had a wonderful morning trying on dresses there and they were also really reasonably proced. In fact, it was the first shop I went to and I ended up ordering my dress that day. I had such a good experience and found such a gorgeous dress that I didn't feel the need to go anywhere else!

Old_Git

a little boy asked his mother
why do women get married in white ,
the mother replied ,because she is happy .
The little boy said why do men get married in black ?

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Why do women get married in white
because all good kitchen appliances come in white

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best advice I got on marriage
dont get married be a batchellor like your father .

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bride gets a £1000 dress groom gets a hired suit ,its a sign off things to come

mofopants

another shop to avoid is deborah rose in comber - i was a size 12 when i went in and she told me i was too 'big' to try on some of the dresses. Not that the dresses were too small - i was too big!

we got married in 2010 and did a lot of stuff ourselves, made the invitations from stuff on ebay, made our own table plan, and shopped around for things like the cake (can highly recommend lesley heaney in newtownabbey)

Old_Git

wedding fayre in The Europa 10/02/2013 13:00 -17:00

Cough_Potato

Were have you chosen as venue? Joshua Thomas in Portadown is excellent for Bridal dresses and accessories. Jo-Anne who owns shop is a lady and will make your daughter feel so much at ease.

tara747

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