Did anyone lie about their wedding date when buying your gowns?

Original post by MissingTheBGene

Nov 03, 2005 09:19 AM

I gave a full four week 'buffer' to the bridal salon and I was just curious if anyone else did this, and if you gowns came in on time, did you tell them you lied or did you just get your alterations done and stored the gowns at your house?

I figured I'd rather be safe than sorry, so I lied about my date, but now I'm not sure if it comes in (if it comes in on time or early) how I should handle it. I don't see hanging my gown at my house as a problem, but I was wondering if anyone did this and if you did anything in particular to protect/store it.

So far, my bridal salon has been really great about everything, so I actually feel bad about lying now, but everyone told me that it was best to do it. Since my BMs are getting their gowns there as well, we told them the same date.

Thanks for any info!

FallBride05 Posted: Nov 03, 2005 11:41 AM

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I gave them the real date, but they gave the designer a date of a month earlier.

glinda_goodwitch Posted: Nov 03, 2005 11:41 AM

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I'm a bad liar. I told the truth. Hopefully it will be okay

Goldi1021 Posted: Nov 03, 2005 11:43 AM

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I did what I had to do.

MissingTheBGene Posted: Nov 03, 2005 11:49 AM

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Posted by Goldi1021

I did what I had to do.

Leslie to the rescue! You always make me feel better!

May2004 Posted: Nov 03, 2005 12:31 PM

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I lied. I made it 4 weeks eariler

thefirstlady Posted: Nov 03, 2005 12:40 PM

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I heard you should definitly lie about your date, even w/ the BM dresses. I'll be doing this as well. I don't mind hanging it in my house. (My aunt got married in the 80's and hung her humongous Princess Di style dress in an extra room in her house, so I know I can!!) You never know what can happen- my friend ordered her gown from David's Bridal, and everytime they called her to let her know it was in and she should come down the dress came out of the bag brand new and stained or irregular, completely unwearable and this went on until a week before her wedding. So she went down there multiple times, and it's very far away, only to be even more stressed out each day!!!

JCam695 Posted: Nov 03, 2005 01:24 PM

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Posted by glinda_goodwitch

I'm a bad liar. I told the truth. Hopefully it will be okay

me too. I was afraid if I told them earlier they might have had to 'rush' the order. I only ordered it 8 months before my wedding date.

MrsH1156 Posted: Nov 03, 2005 01:45 PM

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I'm telling them October when it's actually beginning of November. Since I'm ordering soon, I'm not too worried since my wedding is 1 yr away.

Bobbysgirl Posted: Nov 03, 2005 03:29 PM

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I have a ways to go before that - but I think I am going to lie about it.... its sooo much better to be safe than sorry and its just a small little white lie

Mayflower Posted: Nov 03, 2005 03:32 PM

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I was so excited when I ordered the dress, I forgot to lie. but when I saw my receipt afterwards, I saw that the saleslady had put my wedding date as 3 weeks earlier than it is anyway.

hsacks23r Posted: Nov 03, 2005 03:43 PM

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wow I told them the truth should I have given my self a week before??

Nautical bride Posted: Nov 03, 2005 05:13 PM

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I originally gave them the actual date, and then when they called to say my dress wouldn't be ready when they said it was, and would be coming in until the following month, my mom lied and told them the wedding date had been moved up.

Then POOF, suddenly my dress was available within two weeks.

MissingTheBGene Posted: Nov 03, 2005 05:14 PM

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Posted by Nautical bride

I originally gave them the actual date, and then when they called to say my dress wouldn't be ready when they said it was, and would be coming in until the following month, my mom lied and told them the wedding date had been moved up.

Then POOF, suddenly my dress was available within two weeks.

Unbelievable...

ssdbk Posted: Nov 03, 2005 05:43 PM

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I gave them the real date. I am glad I did because I had to postpone a fitting, and would not have predicted that, amd it would have seemed strange if I had lied and then postponed the fitting.

For the BM dresses, I wish I had lied. I'm having problems with them. I hate how these places treat the BMs like their dresses don't matter!

MrsP2Be Posted: Nov 03, 2005 05:52 PM

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I haven't bought it yet but when I do I'm going to lie.

Summer05 Posted: Nov 03, 2005 07:11 PM

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I lied and told them it was 2 weeks earlier. I had no problem with my dress hanging at my parents for 2 weeks... BUT... I lost so much weight in the 2 weeks before the wedding that the dress ended up being to big for me the day of the wedding! So be careful!