price shopping - bm dresses

I'm in the process of searching around for the best bridesmaid dress prices myself. I had found a place online in Mamaroneck called The Bridal Shop, and they had a great price for the Forever Yours bridesmaid dress I was interested in. I had printed it out and brought it to Macy's where I bought my wedding dress and asked if they'd price match. They told me they would price match it. Unfortunately, I went back a month later with my bridal party, and it turns out Macy's no longer carries the dress I like!

I had found a very similiar Bill Levkoff dress that Macy's does carry. So I was searching around to see if I could find a cheaper price and then get Macy's to price match. Some of the girls on here helped me out and gave me the info for Bridal Elegance in Dix Hills. Their website is gownfind.com, and they had a great price for the Bill Levkoff dress. I was leaning towards printing out that info to bring to Macy's to price match.

Then I checked out one last store for the Forever Yours Dress - Jessica's Bridal in New Hyde Park. The price seemed reasonable, but it was higher than the Forever Yours dress from the Brial Shop and the Bill Levkoff price I was finding from Bridal Elegance/gownfind. I told the woman I have a large bridal party (12 girls), so I asked if there was anything they could do for the price. Then she said they could probably give me 10% off. It brings the price down to what the Bridal Shop was charging for their dresses, so I think I'm going to use Jessica's Bridal. Just have to go over more stuff before I totally commit.

So definitely do research on here, and then talk to whatever place you plan to use to see what they can do for you - like price matching, taking a percentage off, etc.

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Posted by Soon2beAlberti

ok well i tried talking to my bridal store and they wouldn't budge which *****...although i understand why they can't compete with the internet. However, I just called RK and the girl on the phone told me to print out the page with the quote and they will match it and discount 5% just like u girls said. so i suppose I'll have to schedule a girls outing to the city.
ETA: although the traveling back n forth will defeat the purpose of the discount...i may just see if the girls can figure out what size they need and i'll go pick them up and they can take them to get altered here on the island. I have 2 girls who could get to RK no problem...but the other 2 it would be an inconvenience and an added expense.

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well with their no frills program you can have it shipped to you, infact thats what you really do when you do their no frills program...some of my girls couldn't make it so all they're doing is telling me their size and i am ordering it all online...you can just go once to rk bridal and yes through their no frills they dont alter it you bring it to another place of your choice to alter it...also through the no frills you take a form from RK bridal...each designer has its own form, on the form it shows the size and the measurements for each size...for example size 8 and it would say bust 34 waist 27 hips 34 not actual numbers but thats what it would say

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Posted by Soon2beAlberti

ok well i tried talking to my bridal store and they wouldn't budge which *****...although i understand why they can't compete with the internet. However, I just called RK and the girl on the phone told me to print out the page with the quote and they will match it and discount 5% just like u girls said. so i suppose I'll have to schedule a girls outing to the city.
ETA: although the traveling back n forth will defeat the purpose of the discount...i may just see if the girls can figure out what size they need and i'll go pick them up and they can take them to get altered here on the island. I have 2 girls who could get to RK no problem...but the other 2 it would be an inconvenience and an added expense.

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You don't need to go to RK to use ther No Frills. Actually they won't let you do it unless you fill out the online form, print it and fax it in. You receive your dresses by mail to your home or pick up instore. If you want to go for them to try it on cool but I don't think they'll measure your girls for No Frills pricing.

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Posted by empressdani

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Posted by Soon2beAlberti

ok well i tried talking to my bridal store and they wouldn't budge which *****...although i understand why they can't compete with the internet. However, I just called RK and the girl on the phone told me to print out the page with the quote and they will match it and discount 5% just like u girls said. so i suppose I'll have to schedule a girls outing to the city.
ETA: although the traveling back n forth will defeat the purpose of the discount...i may just see if the girls can figure out what size they need and i'll go pick them up and they can take them to get altered here on the island. I have 2 girls who could get to RK no problem...but the other 2 it would be an inconvenience and an added expense.

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You don't need to go to RK to use ther No Frills. Actually they won't let you do it unless you fill out the online form, print it and fax it in. You receive your dresses by mail to your home or pick up instore. If you want to go for them to try it on cool but I don't think they'll measure your girls for No Frills pricing.

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we went to the store to pick a dress and then decided to do the no frills and the lady gave us a form and sat down with us to help us out...My friend asked if they would get charged to get measured and the lady said no...however somebody i know said that they did say they would charge them, i guess its who you ask