Lovely Dress Shop. Ran by black woman that are friendly, helpful and great at what they do! Thanks for the amazing experience

I had a FANTASTIC experience purchasing my dress here. I had the pleasure of working directly with Alex, the owner, & she was phenomenal! Alex stayed under my desired budget with every dress and matched my veil perfectly. I also purchased all of my accessories here and looked EXACTLY how I envisioned on my special day. Beautiful shop with beautiful dresses, and beautiful people!

Another wonderful experience for wedding dress shopping. Booking an appointment does cost $25 for your first time. It says there is a $75 cancelation when first booking the appointment but the follow up emails said, "$50 Cancellation Fee in the case of a no show or cancellation within 72 hours prior to your scheduled appointment time". The store has the main entry with the front desk in the middle , seating on both sides, then kind of splits with two sides. The right side has two rows of wedding dresses, with 1 dressing rooms on the back left, and in the very back a full 360 mirror. The right said had one row of wedding dresses on the left and more dressing rooms on the right. The dressing rooms are very large size, plenty of room to try and store dresses. I work with Ashlyn and Alaina who was shadowing Ashlyn. Prior to my appointment I looked on their website and favored a few dresses. So upon getting to my appointment they were able to start pulling them. The dresses I tried we all beautiful and gorgeous. She also ensured me that I had time to order which others places told me I was very close to running out of time. The dress I loved she told me I could add a liner and even pick different sleeve add ons. She said a lot of dresses have options to custom to your style. I didn't say yes to any dresses just because I am still browsing all of my options. But the experience was really great and would recommend. Ashlyn and Alaina were great to work with. Patient, kind, made me feel at ease, and super helpful.

Found my wedding dress on the sample sale rack! It was beautiful and the sales associates were very helpful. Highly recommend!

When looking for my wedding gown, I wanted something different and that I would be able to wear all night. My favorite designer happed to have dresses at Ava Clara, so I decided to give it a shot. Dominique helped me, and the very first dress I tried ended up being the one. Never even had to go anywhere else! Fell in love with Dominique, the other sweet staff, atmosphere of the shop, and obviously the dress! They were so sweet every time I went in and made the whole process so special.

we were super lucky to work with dominique every single visit to ava clara. she was lovely and i really appreciated her calm but helpful, professional demeanor. we never felt pressured or rushed. she made me feel comfortable and picked up on my sense of style really quickly. she was extremely patient with my multiple try ons of different combinations of dresses and veils and hair pieces etc, and was very responsive to our questions or requests for additional info such as options for customization. i went to about 5? dress shops while looking for my dress and not only was ava clara the first shop i went to, i returned at the end for one of those dresses and they were my favorite to work with by far!

I had the best day yesterday at Ava Clara! It was my first-ever wedding dress shopping experience, and Taylre was friendly and knowledgeable from the start. My family and I all loved the atmosphere and seating in the store, and I also thought the large dressing rooms were so amazing and special.
I loved the first dress I tried on, and Taylre followed it up with win after win. She was very responsive to my preferences and found dresses that suited my style so perfectly. I honestly could have been happy in just about any of the dresses I tried on. Even though I ended up buying a dress from another store, I loved my experience at Ava Clara and couldn't recommend them highly enough.

I highly recommend Ava Clara. I found my perfect dress, they made my Maid of Honor and I feel very comfortable and we felt that we had all the time in the world to go through the choices I picked to find the dress that was right for me.

I fell in love with the first dress I tried on! It was such an easy and painless process. I felt so beautiful on my special day and got so many compliments.

I bought my dress about a year ago with my mom and two sisters. They were quite a handful but Taylor was absolutely amazing and so helpful. I told her what I had tried on before and what I envisioned in my dress and she immediately picked out 4-6 dresses for me to try on. The dress I ended up buying had just come in and it was so dreamy. I knew I loved it but everyone gave me so many compliments on the day of the wedding. The experience at Ava Clara was absolutely wonderful even with covid restrictions leading up to the wedding

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