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So thankful Terry & Staff on our wedding planning team!. My daughter is off to "happily ever after" and I wanted to share my experience with others. I am so glad that we chose Terry with Bridal Elegance. It was a huge relief off my shoulders to have her on our wedding team. From the wedding gown, veil, bridesmaids, tuxedos and table linens and chair covers. I especially appreciated how she was able to give us referrals to other wedding professional for services that she didn't personally handle. She was able to handle so many things for us and it was awesome to deal with just one store for so many wedding details. Everything turned out great and I will definitely have her at my side with my younger daughter's wedding next year. Thanks Terry and everyone at Bridal Elegance!…
Best Bridal store in Colorado Springs.
My daughter was recently married and we used your store for most everything. We were overwhelmed with the quality of service and the kindness and patience of you staff. They are to be commended. You
have a wonderful staff and I have already recommended you twice.
Sincerely,
Beth…
Friendly Staff!. It's wonderful to go to a store where you are treated like a guest. Great customer service is rare these days, and when I recieve it I always want people to know. A great boutique with beautiful wedding gowns and frendly sales people!…
The. Worst.. So. Went in to look for gowns with my mother, to-be mother in-law, and sister. I gave the woman a list of the closest gowns I found in their book to what I was looking for. I then stated "Simple and sleek, often made of silk charmeuse, gown with a short train. I am having a summer wedding and don't want to weigh 300 pounds." Now I personally have no problem with the big ballgown look. I actually found one that I loved. That they did not carry. They attempted to have me order it because I liked the picture. This was BEFORE I had tried anything on. I said no, I would like to try on some elegant, sleek gowns. Let me look around. So my saleslady heads to the back to check out which ones I had highlighted whilst my cohorts and I began investigating the inventory. I had said that my absolute high point was 1100. She sent me to the $1000+ section, full of lace and beading and long long trains. Not what I was looking for. She pulls 5 dresses that I told her specifically I disliked. Had me try them anyways to check the cuts. One lace dress felt as if it weighed about 150lbs. I am 5'4" tall. I was dying. The lace and beading on the dress was cutting the undersides of my arms, a fact which I stated 3 times before I was led back towards the dressing room. ON the way back, she stops to have the owner of the store see if they can alter it so the lace won't bother me. This dress was entirely beaded. Their solution was lets remove the beads near where your arm would touch the side. My solution was I don't like this dress let me out NOW. I inform her, I have found nothing of interest to me, apparently you don't carry what I'm looking for, I wish you had told me when I gave you my list. She sighs, and leads me over to the styles I was actually interested in. That were all under $600. Much more affordable and I may have tried some on, however, was not informed these existed in the store until I had been there almost 2 hours. My cohorts and I found this atrocious dress. You know the one. Had a bedskirt on the bottom and doilies on the chest. Awful. She hears us mocking it and asks what we don't like about it and we tell her. Everything. The exact opposite of decadence. I own nicer comforters. So a few minutes later she says "Before you go, I have one last dress for you to try." I say, sure, whatever, lets go. I am disgruntled and frustrated at this point. She puts the dress we hated on me. And says "NOW YOU don't say a word. You are going out there to look at this dress." I just bit my tongue, fuming. So my entire family asks, "Why are you in THAT?" I said, "Ask her" She berates us for not liking it. I change into my streetclothes. On our way out, she stops me and my mother and says, "You know the people you brought are pretty nice and all, but you should come back alone next time." My mother was like "Um. Excuse me?" So she tells my mom its probably okay if she comes back, but no one else because I apparently have a weak personality and am easily overwhelmed. I am a female electrician. I have 300 male biker coworkers. Does that seem like a weak personality to you?…
WARNING - dress not ready for pick up 3 days in a row!.
I arrived to pick up my wedding dress last Wednesday for a wedding on 8/21/2010 and it was NOT ready! Bridal Elegance assured me that they would clean the dress, press it, and secure all beadwork.
Bridal Elegance is big on promises and short on accountability. I still had time before the wedding day but I got really nervous that the beadwork had not even been addressed. I asked to see the dress and I was right! The areas of loose beads still had strings hanging and missing beads!! I purchased this dress in October of 2009 and Bridal Elegance had the dress in their possession since June 8, 2010, for an Aug 21 wedding. The Bridal Elegance employee said that I could come back in about 30 minutes and the dress would be ready. I questioned how they could professionally clean the dress in 30 minutes and the employee related that they have a steam wand. I expressed that is not the same as professional dry cleaning and that the dress was not bright and clean and steaming was not going to be ok.
Bridal Elegance assured me that I could pick up the dress on Thursday. I arrive on Thursday, August 19, and the dress has been cleaned as there was about a 5 inch water/steam stain on the front of the dress at the waist!!! Bridal Elegance did not even check their product before I arrived to make sure that the dress they were releasing was ready. We also picked up my groom's suit and the pants were hemmed uneven. One leg was longer than the other. Another point of quality that Bridal Elegance chose NOT to check on.
Our 3rd trip to Bridal Elegance was 1 DAY before the wedding. The dress was finally acceptable but the staff was so rude. The owner and bridal consultants blamed Sherri, the seamstress, stating that she is a sub-contractor and her quality of work was falling off. Sherri did a fabulous job on the alterations. I am sorry that Bridal Elegance would just throw her name under the bus. It was very unprofessional and it doesn't matter if a sub-contractor does the work or not - in the bride's mind they are dealing with Bridal Elegance.
I wish I had some real facts to review before I shopped with Bridal Elegance. They were very nice at first but the shop was not overly clean. The consultant I worked with initially was why I bought the dress. She had just moved to the area and was fabulous. On each subsequent visit she was never there. I finally asked and they told me she had moved on. Now I know why. Because they throw their "staff" under the bus to cover for poor management.
When you try on your dress after your first fitting, there is no area with mirrors all the way around. They put you in a corner and then give you a small hand mirror to view the back of your dress. It was hot and no one ever offers you water during all the dress changing. No personal service or attention and the employees do not dress very sharply for a Bridal Salon stressing that they focus on service and quality.
Buying a wedding dress should be an amazing purchase and experience. I spent about $1,000 with Bridal Elegance and got about $50.00 worth of customer service and the attitude came primarily from the owner Clara.
BUYER BEWARE with Bridal Elegance!!!…
