Bridemaid dress cancellation

Tracey_m

Also there 2 separate contracts .. one for wedding dress and one for bridemaids dresses..
wedding dress was already paid in full before bridemaids were ordered

Tracey_m

Warby the dress shop does not do alterations.. I had to get my own dress maker to do that.

warby68

Tracey_m wrote: »

Warby the dress shop does not do alterations.. I had to get my own dress maker to do that.

Well you learn something every day, I thought every shop would have a fitting service.

I think the reality is the shop will play hardball with you to get their money, whatever the likely outcome of legal action, even just by dragging things out, especially if they're big enough to have a head office - they probably have some experience of this kind of thing.

Have you paid anything at all towards the bridesmaids' dresses? Can you pay something - there must be a lot of elements in the wedding due for payment - can someone else wait a bit longer?

Aylesbury_Duck

The bottom line is that you have a right to your wedding dress but if they stick to their guns you are not going to get it imminently without settling the other bill. You therefore seem to have two choices. Borrow the money somehow or take legal action. If the former is completely impossible, you'll have to speak to the fitters to reschedule things because legal action will take at least a few weeks. Unless they have a change of heart there is no other magic way of solving this in the time you want to.

I'd suggest that even though a solicitor might provide some initial free advice, they're not going to act without payment so if you have the money to hire a solicitor, put it to the shop as part payment for the bridesmaid dresses to see if that will generate the return of the wedding dress.

Tracey_m

warby, they don’t actually have a head office. As I asked to speak to head office to make arrangemts to pay the separate order of bridemaid dresses.
When speaking to the lady from the shop yesterday she said she was just a normal woman trying to run her shop. Which I totally understand and I’m 100% willing to pay the remainder of dresses as I wouldn’t break the contract. she also said she does not have the said dresses in shop as the designer won’t release them until final payment is made on them. which I know isn’t the way the industry works. I know the only way they can legally do anything is if there are at a loss of money, which they aren’t. But there just not willing to let me set up a payment plan to pay dresses of through my bank to there’s..
surely they are breaking my contract with them for my wedding dress..

elsien

If the wedding is not till April, can you not delay the dressmaker to give you time to come up with more of the money?

Tracey_m

Hi ayles.. I have suggested that I could pay more of the bridemaids dresses when collecting my wedding dress but there saying they want full balance or no dresses will be released.
Even thou they have said they don’t have the bridemaids dresses in the shop as designer won’t release them without the remaining balance

Aylesbury_Duck

Tracey_m wrote: »

warby, they don’t actually have a head office. As I asked to speak to head office to make arrangemts to pay the separate order of bridemaid dresses.
When speaking to the lady from the shop yesterday she said she was just a normal woman trying to run her shop. Which I totally understand and I’m 100% willing to pay the remainder of dresses as I wouldn’t break the contract. she also said she does not have the said dresses in shop as the designer won’t release them until final payment is made on them. which I know isn’t the way the industry works. I know the only way they can legally do anything is if there are at a loss of money, which they aren’t. But there just not willing to let me set up a payment plan to pay dresses of through my bank to there’s..
surely they are breaking my contract with them for my wedding dress..

They are, we've established that, but that doesn't get you your dress back any time soon.

Aylesbury_Duck

Tracey_m wrote: »

Hi ayles.. I have suggested that I could pay more of the bridemaids dresses when collecting my wedding dress but there saying they want full balance or no dresses will be released.
Even thou they have said they don’t have the bridemaids dresses in the shop as designer won’t release them without the remaining balance

So you have two choices. Find the full amount or commence legal action.

nyermen

my name was on the form sheet

She made all payments through her online banking

Just to check - I assume you made the contract (eg. signed) & paid the deposit for the bridesmaids dresses (SIL transferred deposit to you?). I ask because you say the SIL "cancelled the dresses" etc, just checking both contracts are legally with you.
Just putting your name on a "sheet" doesn't make you liable, entering the contract does.