NEED YOU GIRLS

babsbeark Posted: Sep 10, 2009 02:58 PM

NEED YOU GIRLS

Hello Girls,

I am in store for a very busy weekend I need to know what everyone’s thoughts, opinions, experiences good or bad are of the following places:

Paradise Bridal
Bridal Suite of Patchogue
Bridal Suite of Bayshore
The Wedding Center of Commack
Bridal Suite of Centereach
Helen’s Bridal
Lilettes

Thanks

sugarnspice Posted: Sep 10, 2009 03:01 PM

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haha ive been to ALLL.... i will post my experiences

soontobecruz Posted: Sep 10, 2009 03:01 PM

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Posted by babsbeark

Hello Girls,

I am in store for a very busy weekend I need to know what everyone’s thoughts, opinions, experiences good or bad are of the following places:

Paradise Bridal
Bridal Suite of Patchogue
Bridal Suite of Bayshore
The Wedding Center of Commack
Bridal Suite of Centereach
Helen’s Bridal
Lilettes

Thanks

I thought Bridal Suite of Patchogue closed up?
Bridal Suite of Centereach, I have had no problems so far PERSONALLY
Bridal Suite of Bay Shore, nice and helpful when looking at brides gown they disappear when looking at BM dresses

thats all I have for ya

MarjorieFrank Posted: Sep 10, 2009 03:04 PM

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I have only been to Lillette's. I had a great experience, the bridal consultants are great. Some members of their alterations department are terrible though.

sugarnspice Posted: Sep 10, 2009 03:08 PM

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Paradise Bridal- annoying if you dont buy the dress there since they wont tell you the designer of the dress. I actually LOVED barbara as she was so helpful, and i ordered my dress from there. I suggest making an appt

Bridal Suite of Patchogue ok i lied, i didnt go here.

Bridal Suite of Bayshore- tons of dresses. I had the young girl, danielle i think... and she was AWESOME. she pulled so many dresses and was so patient and helpful. I could hear others commenting on how she should ask for help since i was so clueless, which was true, but she had no problem. They def require an appt

The Wedding Center of Commack they have a good variety here but none of the designers i was looking for

Bridal Suite of Centereach. loved it here. barbara was so nice. they had one of the smaller selections but found them to be the most helpful

Helen’s Bridal. The help here was good too. while they had a good selection, they didnt have much to my taste. they also have a good selection of bm dresses

Lilettes- im the only one who hates it here... you can find older posts about why, but i was a rare case

you didnt mention them but GO TO VILLAGE BRIDAL! they were my fav store and would have ordered from there if they carried the designer i went with. They are SO sweet and knowledgeable

Carmela's Bridal Garden is nice too.

Thanks

halfbaked Posted: Sep 10, 2009 03:19 PM

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Posted by APastries2010

you didnt mention them but GO TO VILLAGE BRIDAL! they were my fav store and would have ordered from there if they carried the designer i went with. They are SO sweet and knowledgeable

Thanks

Definitely check out Village Bridal. They were the first place I went to and boy did they spoil me!!

I also went to Paradise Bridal and *loved* it. I bought my dress from them 2 weeks ago and my mom was adamant about not purchasing from a store unless she had a GREAT experience there. We bought the dress on the spot!! I worked with Patty so I know she's there on the weekends. Tell her Jillian sent you!

babsbeark Posted: Sep 10, 2009 03:19 PM

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Which ones can I take pictures at

ellie424 Posted: Sep 10, 2009 03:24 PM

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Posted by babsbeark

Which ones can I take pictures at

I've heard that Lillette's only lets you take pictures after you've ordered your dress.

barbtony Posted: Sep 10, 2009 03:25 PM

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Paradise Bridal - Had a great experience the first time - with Barbara. The second time - not so much. And no matter what they tell you - make an appointment!!!

The Wedding Center of Commack - I liked it there. I found there dresses to be dirtier than any other store I went to though.

Helen’s Bridal - Ask for Ashley - she's a doll. Very helpful although there was nothing there I wanted.

Lilettes - I had both Lidia and Geri helping me. I'll be back there in November to order my dress.

barbtony Posted: Sep 10, 2009 03:27 PM

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Posted by ellie424

Posted by babsbeark

Which ones can I take pictures at

I've heard that Lillette's only lets you take pictures after you've ordered your dress.

I couldn't take pics at Lillette's, Wedding Center in Commack or Paradise.

Village Bridal in Babylon and Helen's in Commack let me take pics.

babsbeark Posted: Sep 10, 2009 03:27 PM

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I was at village sat very nice but out of all the pictures I had they had none of the dresses and I want too see alfred angelo'd line

sugarnspice Posted: Sep 10, 2009 03:30 PM

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the wedding center has ALOT of AA dresses

thats who i thought i wanted when i started to look

jcreilly Posted: Sep 10, 2009 03:31 PM

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sorry I have not gone to any of those places

mariedsgn Posted: Sep 10, 2009 03:47 PM

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Paradise Bridal – this was my first dress shopping experience and I had a blast! Lolita was my sales girl – she was really nice, they have a big selection of dresses. You are not allowed to take photos :(

The Wedding Center of Commack – lots of dresses, no photo’s – the people were helpful.

Bridal Suite of Centereach – an okay selection of dresses very helpful people, you can take photo’s.

Helen’s Bridal- Liz and Ashley are very helpful, a small selection of dresses, I’m not sure about photo’s, b/c I went on my lunch)

hahny3644 Posted: Sep 10, 2009 03:48 PM

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Not the biggest fan of Paradise Bridal. My friend's bmaid dresses were two months late and they kept giving her different excuses every time it was pushed back. Plus they wouldn't return our calls when we would check to see if the dresses were in - just overall pretty frustrating.

Bayshore Bridal was pretty attentive, but I second the comment about being helpful with brides and not help with maids...

Good luck!

IrishBride1109 Posted: Sep 10, 2009 03:53 PM

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09er crashing...My experience has been that customer service has been seriously lacking at Paradise Bridal. Really poor communication and a lot of the sales people were pretty useless and clueless in person and on the phone. I ordered BMs dresses here, not my dress so your experience may be different. But, if I had to do it over again I would have gone elsewhere.

StaceYums81 Posted: Sep 10, 2009 03:57 PM

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Bridal Suite of Centereach I was disgusted by my experience there

Theres a place called fantasia in rocky point you should try there as well they are very very nice and very accomodating...

Tonys_Girl_03 Posted: Sep 10, 2009 04:17 PM

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I went to Paradise Bridal, I had a good experience there, but didn't order my dress through them. They were very nice and helpful. I worked with a really nice lady named Vivian.

Bridal Suite of Bay Shore, I hated! I didn't like their selection, the women that worked there were rude and not very helpful. I honestly haven't heard too many good reviews on this place.

Bridal Suite of Patchogue closed about 3 years ago!

That's all I've been to, I found my dress in the 3rd store I visited which was Macys Bridal in Smithaven. They were very very nice and helpful there, I worked with Anna, such a sweetheart.

Good luck and let us know how it goes!