After visiting several stores in the Toronto location, my mom recommended my friend (the bride) and I (bridesmaid) visit Ritche bridal, where my aunt got her dress almost 30 years ago!
We have been to several bridal stores in Toronto - none compare to our experience.
Firstly, there was parking! Tight! But available!
We were greeted with a warm welcome from Pearl! We let them know we had a bridal appointment but wanted to see bridesmaids dresses first. She watched the clock the whole time we were searching.
They also have a washroom! A washroom they let us use! Wow! As if this is a big deal? But it is! Several other stores didn't! Or we had to go into frightening basements into dirty old closet washrooms!
Pearl was amazing, as well as the other women shuffling around trying to make sure we found what we were looking for. They had everything you can imagine, and every colour...
When we went up for our appointment. They were right on time. We actually got our own full room! It had a curtain so the bride changed right then and there and showed immediately. It was super efficient and private.
Our personal shopper - Neoma? Naomi? I feel bad for forgetting her name- but she is amazing! she stayed in budget and pulled some amazing dresses! She took great notes on what our bride wanted!
After everything, and not buying any dresses, they were super helpful of where we could find the dresses, where we could get more info etx etx. And how to order with them and that alterations don't need to be done at their store. They also had a lot of information about colours and how sometimes dresses are cut from different things of fabric and can be off a bit. Anyways they were super upfront about what to expect.
I was in complete shock how amazing this experience was.