no pictures please
One of the things that you quickly learn when shopping for bridal gowns, is the bridal shops want to do everything they can to keep you from being able to “shop” the gowns. As I mentioned earlier, they take the designers tags out, replacing them with their own. They don’t tell you the designer’s names unless you ask, they won’t write the dress names/designers down for you and they certainly don’t give you the model number of the dress. And they don’t let you take pictures of the bride in the dress. Now to be fair, not all shops stuck to all of these bridal shop norms. The more high end stores were far more informative (I guess they figured if you were willing to throw down $3K on a dress, you weren’t the type to shop around for the best deal).
To combat this, we brought a pencil and my Wedding Book and my best friend drew the dresses with descriptions and occasionally a designer name, if I could remember what the sales lady had told me. We were going to find a way to foil their attempts to keep us from saving money!
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