Hey Ladies,
I just need to rant to someone other than my SO who doesn't understand my dress dilemma, lol. So Saturday I had my bridal dinner to introduce my bridesmaids to each other and to look for dresses. After dinner, we all headed to David's Bridal to look around at dresses. I had shopped there several times before and always had a lovely experience. Upon walking in my sales associate told me that I had a unique name, my name is Jess... I should have known that there that this wasn't going to be a fun time. I immediately saw a dress I loved that was on the manikin and told her I wanted to try it on. She looked at me shocked and said, how high was your budget again. The dress was just $1,400, not some crazy designer amount. Along with that I picked out some similar designs and let my bridesmaids each pick a dress.
We went back to try on the dress and they wouldn't let my bridesmaids help me, I walked out in front of everyone with unzipped dresses and she kept trying to tell me I need to put on a corset to look slimmer. She even brought me one that was covered in stains. I politely sat it to the side, and she later critiqued me on if I had put it on I'd look better. I eventually got fed up and asked for my bridesmaid to zip the dress, so that the rest of the shop wouldn't get a good view of my Zelda panties. The sleeves of the dress I liked came second and she wouldn't put them on, she used no clips to help the dresses actually fit, they all looked like a hot mess, and she randomly stuck a veil in my hair and completely messed it up.
To make matters worse, I ended up with the entire staff watching me put on dresses, and was highly annoyed even when I found a dress that everyone liked. I decided to go with a shorter dress, with shoes, and a belt. I went to the front to pay and asked how much it was she gave me a total of $550 which was way off from the calculations in my head and I asked if she got everything....low and behold the receipt printed out and the shoes weren't on there but a $150 veil was. I called her out and she said well I can add the shoes on now, sadly those where some bomb shoes and I said fine. I knew that once I signed the first receipt I could only exchange the items for store credit anyway....
I didn't know that the associates where suppose to fit the dress and clip it till I went home, I just figured they all would look like plastic bags on me, since the short one was the only one in my size that I had my bridesmaids help me with. Now I feel like I would have loved my original dresses if they would have fit after doing research online. I'm having major dress regret, and feel like I was just mistreated.
I wasn't dressed up fancy, so maybe they assumed I was lying about my budget? I literally just wore a black graphic tee and pants that where easy to take off, I didn't want to get dressed up nice to throw my clothes in the floor while trying on a million dresses.
