Charlotte Elmer in Maggie Sottero Geneva

Fate, Serendipity, chance, fortune, good luck…. sometimes the dress is just sitting in a shop waiting for you.

There are some dispicable closing techniques used in the selling of wedding dresses. I am sure you have heard some of them before. “Goodness – 18 months until your wedding – I very seriously doubt you’ll get a dress unless you hand over the full amount in cash – right now!” I deplore this method of inducing panic buying.

However there are some dress manufacturers that really do need a significant lead time to produce dresses. Maggie Sottero are one such compny. On avaerage I would recommend a 16 – 18 week delivery time. Then you must allow a comfortable margin of time for fittings and alterations before your wedding date. I would also recommend a bit of introspection too! Are you the sort of girl that will worry that your dress is not in the country six weeks before your wedding? If so order the dress for delivery twelve weeks before your wedding.

Charlotte’s story is a very happy fateful meeting with her dress. On occassions brides grow out of dresses, or shrink beyond possible alteration. Therefore sometimes we have a spare dress and it’s usually one of our favourites. When it looks as amazing as this you know you are onto a winner

In Charlotte’s words “…Miss Bush …thank you for all your help with getting me the perfect wedding dress in time for my wedding this August. Most other shops told me I was too late in March when we started looking for wedding dresses, but I knew it was meant to be when you happened to have the dress I wanted already in Ripley!”