Great Bargains on wedding dresses - The Bridal Corner

tatli_lokma

Hi all,
just passed the Bridal Corner in Harts Corner, Glasnevin tonight. They are having a sale on sample dresses - some fab desiginer ones reduced huge amounts.
Some lovely ones in the window for €200 and €300. One for €300 I know was originally €1800 as I looked at it myself when I was trying on.

The staff there are really great, very helpful and put you at ease. The quality of their alterations are great too.

So anyone looking for a fab dress at a bargain price i would suggest you take a look!


They do bridesmaids and 'formal' dresses too so even anyone with a ball or similiar would find something.
happy shopping!

suzieb

I went to bridal corner to try on dresses last week and didn't plan on spending thousands on the dresses so tried one of the ones in the window for €400. It was ok on but my mam liked it and the lady in the shop was telling me how lovely it was on (and kept asking me "do you love it,do you love it?)

I tried on one for about a grand that was really nice on but not to my taste and again my mam loved it on me.

I said that I'd have a think about it and come back the next day to decide for sure and if I did I would put deposit down then.
Lady in shop and the male owner were putting a lot of pressure on me to "go off and have a coffee with your mam and come back then cos we're open til 5"...

It really annoyed me how pushy they were,they first told me that I was dead right looking at the cheaper dress cos it was lovely on but once I put the more expensive one on they were saying "ah its a lot better on and looks a lot newer than the sample one as they can look quite grubby!" blah blah blah.

I have been to Balbriggan Bridal twice over the past week and the ladies working there could not be more accommodating if they tried.
They knew I loved the dress and knew I'd be back again and did not put any pressure on me whatsoever to buy or even put a deposit down yet.

Bridal Corner is quite near my mam's house and its where I got my debs dress years ago so I would have loved to get my dress there but with pushy staff it just irritated the hell out of me as I like to make a sensible decision!

Am sure others have found it great but I dont like pushy sales staff!

tatli_lokma

I have to say, I found them to be nothing close to pushy or putting on the hard sell. I went in open to trying on anything - I had an idea in my head what kind of thing I wanted, but as you know often what you think you want looks crap and vice versa, so I went in with an open mind. As a result I tried on a good few dresses. I got it down to 2 dresses - the dress I went for was about €600 less than the other one, and the girls in the Bridal corner we all for the one I chose. They gave the opinion that it was much nicer on me and more suited to my personality (from what they had seen of it! lol). They could have tried to push me into buying the more expensive dress, but they didn't. They also didn't push veils and head dresses on me either, like some shops tried to do. When I told them my budget, they didn't do what two places did an sneakily up and up the budget by adding one 'just €200 more' and then a second one 'just €100 over your budget' - the second one was €100 more than the other one, so €300 over my maximum budget! I wouldn't even try it on, but yer one in the shop kept going on about how she KNEW it was the right one for me and was just short of saying my wedding would be ruined if I didn't try it on and buy it!

The girls I dealt with in the Bridal corner couldn't have been further from all that. They didn't make me feel like a whale for being a 12-14 like one shop did.

My friend also bought a dress there and she was on a very tight budget. She bought one of their sample dresses, which was still in stock in several other shops. It was on the rack at €1500 and she paid €400 for the sample. They had it cleaned and altered for her included in the price, and it looked absolutely brand new and no different to a new one.

I suppose different people have different experiences, but mine was very positive in the Bridal corner and I am happy to recommend them to others.

Oh, and edit to add, re: Balbriggan Bridal, yes I agree the staff are very nice, but the smell of stale smoke off them and the shop put me off! they were standing just outside the back door with the door open and the smoke was all coming inside! I was also put off because when I was there another girl came in and they were telling her how fantastic she looked in a dress when in fact she looked an out and out disgrace! She was spilling out of the dress and she looked like she was going to a bordello not a wedding! She kept saying, but I think my chest is too big for this style and they kept saying 'no no, its gorgeous on you, if you have it flaunt it'! eh, no, not on your wedding day and not if the bride feels uncomfortable with it! Fair enough if you are an extrovert and want to flash the flesh, but this girl obviously didn't. I got the impression that whilst they are not pushy, likewise they are of the ilk that tell every bride that every dress they pick is gorgeous rather than steering them towards something more suitable for them.

bernyh

Grrr Bridal Corner.......

I'm married now, but never would I recommend them!! I almost marched out in tears after making an appt with them to chose my dress... my MIL talked me out of it... and due to constraints on me being able to go to look at dresses in other shops I got my dress there.... all €1700 euro of it (not to mention another €200 for veil and €150 for underskirt).... and you would have thought they were doing me a favour.... due to work commitments I couldn't go for fittings at "their time!" so they made me feel like ****! Got my dress wrong a total of 4 times!!!!! I ended up takin a mafia with me to ensure that my dress was right for me before I took it.... and to stand up to the male owner... who I found extremely rude... and personally didn't like him "flitting around" when I was tryin my dress on!!!

Might be cheap but customer service goes a long way

PS

I make tiara's n wedding jewellery if your in the market!

amdublin

suzieb wrote: »

It really annoyed me how pushy they were,they first told me that I was dead right looking at the cheaper dress cos it was lovely on but once I put the more expensive one on they were saying "ah its a lot better on and looks a lot newer than the sample one as they can look quite grubby!" blah blah blah.

Maybe it did look better and they were just trying to help you

suzieb

The second dress did look better on compared to the cheaper one but they were telling me that I should buy the cheaper one there and then when I tried it on but yet when my mam wanted me to try the more exp one on they were pretty much slating sample dresses in general and saying they can look grubby and not as nice as new ones and the sample one they originally told me was fab and in great condition was now considered grubby.

Anyway that wasn't really my main issue with them.

It was the fact they were trying to put the hard sale on esp towards my mam and telling me to come back after a coffee to put a deposit down.Its a big decision for a girl to make...

THe male owner as someone else said kept offering advice on the dress and I found it uncomfortable to have a man staring at me in a dress and giving his opinions as I think the whole excitement of trying on dresses is something to be shared with women!

tatli_lokma

I think the problem may be with the male owner. Now that you mention it, I have heard that he pushes the staff a bit, so when he is around they have to be seen to sell harder. I was there when there was no sign of him, and the girls were lovely, dead honest, and all my alterations and fittings were done with no fuss or hassle. I got married in 12 weeks, and they even assisted me in getting a rush order in, which a lot of shops either just wouldn't do, or wanted to charge me extra for.

I mentioned this to my mate who also bought there - she said that she also heard the male owner is a bit pushy - apparently when she was there he was just leaving because the bride who was in at the same time as her for a fitting asked him to leave because she was feeling uncomfortable with him there!
So perhaps a lot of it is down to him, but I couldn't fault the two younger women who assisted me - one was called Lisa and she was very nice.