Has anyone ever worked in a bridal store?

[CurlyQ284]

I haven't but I wouldn't want to do anything in the wedding industry. Have you seen Bridezillas? No thanks!

[panamajane]

Sept 30, 2013 9:11:33 GMT -5 nicbreeful said:

Also, you'd have figured this would be a reality show, no? They make reality shows about everything now.

It is! Say Yes to the Dress on TLC.

[tripleshot]

Sept 30, 2013 9:11:37 GMT -5 CurlyQ284 said:

I haven't but I wouldn't want to do anything in the wedding industry. Have you seen Bridezillas? No thanks!

Ha! That's what I was thinking. People can be crazy, especially brides and their families. Even that yes to the dress show on TLC makes it seem like a miserable job.

[CurlyQ284]

Sept 30, 2013 9:13:06 GMT -5 tripleshot said:

Sept 30, 2013 9:11:37 GMT -5 CurlyQ284 said:

I haven't but I wouldn't want to do anything in the wedding industry. Have you seen Bridezillas? No thanks!

Ha! That's what I was thinking. People can be crazy, especially brides and their families. Even that yes to the dress show on TLC makes it seem like a miserable job.

Ugh no way. I had fun planning my wedding and my mom kept saying "You should do this for a living!". No effing way. I am a sane person planning my own wedding. Not the same thing.

[LLL]

I think cleo29 has

[CurlyQ284]

Sept 30, 2013 9:14:05 GMT -5 nicbreeful said:

Sept 30, 2013 9:11:37 GMT -5 CurlyQ284 said:

I haven't but I wouldn't want to do anything in the wedding industry. Have you seen Bridezillas? No thanks!

Lol, yes.. But that stuff is so fake.  I mean, don't get me wrong, there are people like that.. but shows like Bridezillas (and anything where the focus is on bad behavior) tend to be really scripted.  They have incentives for doing it (like parts of their wedding paid for) for the crazier they act.  

Oh of course but that was the nicest way I could think of to say some brides are crazy bitches. I know a few people that I wouldn't have wanted to be employed by them for their wedding in any capacity.

[Deleted]

There was a show about women who worked at a designer bridal store in New York. I think it was Amsale Girls or something like that.

[mrsericnorthman]

I worked in a family-owned one for a little bit.

PPs are correct. About 98% of the brides are really easy-going. The rest are fucking insane and nitpicky about everything. No matter what you do, they'll never be happy. Same thing with the families, especially some of the moms. We had one Mom who did nothing but berate and criticised the bride's weight. I had to tell her to cut it out (in a tactful manner of course).

I had a fun time because I was planning my wedding too so whenever it was slow, the owner let me try on the dresses. She gave me a fat discount on my dress too.

[VeryViolet]

I have no experience working in a bridal shop but I did used to work a lot of weddings during and right after college. They were the worst events to work. My biggest issue usually wasn't the bride it was either her mother, an aunt or a psycho bridesmaid. One time it was the mother of the groom. I bet that bride posts online somewhere about her psycho MIL.

I made really good money working private events and I would still try and give those shifts away occasionally because they were so miserable. So no I wouldn't want to work in a bridal salon LOL.

[miniroller]

I absolutely thought wedding planner was my calling!! This was rt before JLo's movie came out, & frankly, she kind of ruined it for me... Once I planned my own (which I actually really enjoyed), & was involved in many others, I was VRY over it!
This was pre-bridal reality show madness, & now I'm definitely glad I chose a different direction. I do sometimes wish I lived in a bigger urban area, & could be the 'chill' bride dream wedding planner. That's not setting myself up for failure, right?? Ha.

[coribelle26]

I could never be as pushy as the employees at the bridal salons around here. When my best friend just got her dress, they gave her one hour and six dresses, and pushed really hard for her to pick one of the six and pay for it immediately. (It actually was a lot like Say Yes to the Dress, I think they ripped off the format, lol.) They wouldn't even let her try on an earlier one to compare her two favorites, they were like, "Oh no this is your dress! You're just going to get confused if you put the other one on again!"

Then the salesperson got SO pissed at me when I said that I thought she looked better without the veil (she was on the fence about a veil anyway and it hid the back of the dress, which was one of the best parts). She snapped at me to, "Let her have her day! She will only have this one chance to wear a veil!" Umm, and it will add $300 to the bill....

When I shopped for mine I encountered so much of the same. I ended up buying my dress from a store an hour and a half across town because they were not assholes.

[miniroller]

It's because I'm on my phone, SRRY!!!!

[CurlyQ284]

I went to two stores. One was amazing, not pushy etc. The other didn't help me at all. My mom and I were struggling to put these dresses on alone. I tried on 2 and then bought mine from the nice store.

[coribelle26]

I forgot my other terrible bridal shopping story! When I was looking for my dress I saw one in a magazine and made an appointment at this one particular store to try it on. We got there a few minutes before the appointment time (just my best friend and me, I didn't do an entourage) and no one acknowledged that we walked in so we stood around for a bit and then started looking at the racks because we were bored. About 20 minutes went by and finally this woman came over and SO bitchily said, "Girls we have a full schedule of brides today and we can't accommodate browsers." I must have blinked at her for a full minute before I managed to say, "Yes I'm ON your obviously full schedule of brides and you've been ignoring me for almost half an hour." I should have walked out right then but I stayed to try on the dress and it was hideous. Then I had to fight with her because she was BLOCKING THE DRESSING ROOM DOOR and insisting I try on more dresses. It was surreal.

[coribelle26]

nicbreeful she bought the dress, too!  I mean it's beautiful but I was having heart palpitations at the idea of dropping that kind of money on a dress with so little time to actually think about it.  I went back twice before finally deciding to get mine.

[cleo29]

I did and I loved it, other than the store not wanting to give me commissions for my sales, which sucked.

[8675309]

I had a very busy and fairly successful wedding planning business for 6 years. It is not for the faint of heart. This was of course pre-kids when I could be up at all hours of the night consoling a bride over a fight with her mom/sister/MOH/FI/bridesmaid. It is a VERY different job than what everyone thinks it is. TRUST ME. While it has its fun moments (Details and Design) the execution and the day of is the most stressful. Like someone said about the bridal salons, it's never usually the bride that's BSC, it's the family, guests or bridesmaids. I am still friends with MANY of my brides and at times I really miss that profession.

My fav part? Seeing all their babies on facebook. LOVETHAT!

[Deleted]

Yes.  When I was laid off in 2003, 6 months before my first wedding.  I worked at a higher end store.

I loved it.  But it was tiring - I'm introverted so having to be "on" so long was exhausting for me and hauling heavy dresses around turned out to be a good arm workout.

Also, the girls I worked with were pretty catty. 

But overall it was fun.