Wedding dress LATE. What are my rights?

photome

Money-Saving-King wrote: »

Why are you saying the industry is crying out for change?

If you think it's simple then go to a bank, ask for a business loan and change the industry yourself.

If you think it's crying out for change & it's changeable you'd up a billionaire surely?

I am saying it because making a wedding dress IMO shouldnt take 6 months.

I didnt say it was simple (did I ?) and I have zero inclination to start a dress making business or any other business come to that

For someone who does have the inclination and could start up and make dresses in a shorter time frame it does seem to me that they could make a killing.

A few people have tried to explain the 6 month time frame and thanks to them

nearlyrich

Bespoke dresses can take less time than 6 months but can you imagine how much they cost especially if the designer has a studio with staff to pay etc. There are places where you can buy a dress off the peg but in the OP's case she has chosen a dress which is made in probably the far east and then shipped over and 6 months isn't a massive amount of time..

peachyprice

fluffnutter wrote: »

I bought a wedding dress from a wedding dress shop the day I tried it on. It's fancy pants places that take an eternity to make a dress up. 'Average wait is six months' - where did you get that figure from? Not every woman spends years planning her perfect day. I got married six weeks after my husband proposed. In a wedding dress, not something from Monsoon. It's perfectly easy to find a dress without waiting months - all that is just affectation IMO, trying to create fake 'exclusivity'.

So you bought the sample, good for you. Hope you got a discount, if you didn't you were diddled.

peachyprice

photome wrote: »

For someone who does have the inclination and could start up and make dresses in a shorter time frame it does seem to me that they could make a killing.

Yes, if they're only making one dress at a time of course they can make it quicker, it's a service that's widely available, but not as affordable. As you say, seamstresses make a killing on one -off wedding dresses.