Mark

My wife bought her wedding dress here. We do NOT recommend using David’s bridal! Let’s start here: This was a simple hem and add buttons to bustle the dress. Nothing was being taken in, nothing taken out, nothing added and nothing taken off the dress. She was told that they need 4 weeks to do any alterations to the dress. Our wedding date is October 26th 2024. She brought her dress to David’s bridal on September 21st 2024 and was told it will be ready to pick up October 19th 2024, exactly 1 week before our wedding. To start off they had charged her 2 additional rush fees even though she had brought the dress in with plenty of time (the pick up date was exactly 4 weeks after she had dropped it off). That was before she had even left the dress there on sept. 21st. October 19th comes around and her appointment to pick up the dress was at 11:30am. Keep in mind that we live 1 hour from this location. At 11:24 am (only 6 mins. before the appointment that had been set up 4 weeks prior!) they had called MY phone(not my wife’s) and explained that the dress was not ready and they needed more time. Completely unacceptable. First that they had called me and not my wife. Second that they had called only a mere 6 minutes before the scheduled appointment. I had to call my wife who was only a few minutes from pulling into David’s bridal parking lot and explain that they had called me and said it was not ready. She proceeded to go inside and speak to them in person and explain that they had called the wrong number and that she did not have any other day to come back as she is running her own business and has more wedding details that needed to be taken care of. So they had told her to come back around 4:30 -5:00pm. After an hour long drive home she decided to call them just to be sure that it was getting both the hem and buttons for the bustle done, she said yes and then proceeded to ask her to push it back another hour and come back between 5:30-6:00pm. 5 pm rolls around and she calls them to be sure that it is either ready or will be ready by the time she gets there as it is an hour drive and she did not want to get there to wait around for them to finish. They said “yes it is ready to be picked up.” Another hour in the car and she finally has the chance to put the dress on to make sure everything was good. As my wife was observing the dress she noticed that there are pins still in the dress, they had forgotten to sew an entire section, so they dress wasn’t even done and we had to sit there and wait for them to sew up the last section.
Between the miscommunication and them not having the dress anywhere near done in the 4 weeks they had it, it seems like they hadn’t even touched the dress until the day of pick up. It had seemed as if they had forgotten it in a back corner until they saw they had an appointment for pick up and then tried to scramble to come up with excuses as to why it wasn’t done. All in all they dropped the ball and then tried to play it off as if they hadn’t. The manager did refund the $100 in rush fees ( that shouldn’t have been charged in the first place) and then also refunded an extra $150; only a partial refund of the simple alterations, but with all the aggravation and chaos it cause in our day a full refund should have been issued, especially because it was entirely their fault.
After all of this we would never recommend David’s bridal to anyone. David’s bridal you have failed us…