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| - I ordered my dress back in January, but I wanted to wait until the wedding was over to review the whole process soup-to-nuts.
My mom flew out specifically to go dress shopping with me, so I crammed 4 appointments into a 24 hour period. Lillian Lottie was my 3rd appointment. I thought I had found my dress at appointment #2, but I wasn't ready for the experience to end (isn't that a rule on Say Yes to the Dress or something?). When we went to Lillian Lottie, they were still in their previous cramped location. Regardless they had a friendly staff and I quickly picked out several dresses I was interested in trying on.
I'm not one to try something on, spend minutes admiring myself in the mirror, and then move onto the next one. No - the moment I see it won't work for me, off it comes. So in a relatively short amount of time (well, for trying on giant poofy princess dresses), I had tried on 15 gowns and narrowed it down to 4 - and 2 of them outranked the one I had thought was "mine" at the other store. The staff (sorry, it's been so long I can't tell you who helped me) was incredibly patient with me and kept bringing dress after dress until I found "the one". They were great - they seemed like they were just as excited as I was that I found the dress! And yes, I canceled appointment #4.
They told me it would take at least 6 months to get the dress in - it actually took around 5 (hooray!). I used their seamstress for the alterations, and she was very friendly and knowledgeable - my dress fit like a glove for the wedding, and was exactly the right length (we took what little train there was off).
Since that trip, I've referred multiple people to Lillian Lottie; not everyone ended up finding their dress there, but all of them raved about their experience.
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