September 23, 2025 • 26 mins
Every bride deserves to feel beautiful, confident, and true to herself on her wedding day. But with endless options, trends, and price points, finding the perfect dress can feel overwhelming. That's why we've brought in Alexandra, owner of Bella Bride Boutique, to share her decade of experience in the bridal fashion industry.
Alexandra's approach is refreshingly practical yet deeply respectful of the emotional journey that is wedding dress shopping. "Make sure that when those doors open and you're walking down the aisle, that they're looking at you as a whole," she advises, emphasizing that your dress should enhance your presence, not overshadow it.
We dive into the current shift toward minimalist, timeless designs that won't look dated in photos decades from now. The basque waist silhouette is making a major comeback, creating that perfect hourglass shape that flatters virtually every body type. And if you're wondering about colors, Alexandra confirms that pure white is on its way out, with ivory, champagne, and blush tones taking center stage for their universally flattering qualities.
Beyond aesthetics, we cover essential practical advice about shopping timelines (ideally start a year before your wedding), price expectations ($1,500-$3,500 at Bella Bride Boutique), and why your dress should be one of your first wedding planning decisions. Alexandra explains how your gown creates a domino effect, influencing everything from bridesmaid dresses to floral choices to hair and makeup.
Perhaps most importantly, Alexandra challenges the notion that your venue should dictate your dress style. Whether you're getting married in a courthouse or a cathedral, on a beach or in a ballroom, you deserve to wear whatever makes you feel most beautiful. After all, you're still the bride, and it's still your special day.
Follow @bellabrideboutique on Instagram to see their latest inventory and learn about upcoming trunk shows and sample sales where you can find your dream dress at a dream price.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to the Tipsy Guest Podcast.
I am your host, MarcoBuenrostro, and every week I'm
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(00:26):
Hey guys, welcome back to theTipsy Guest.
I am Marco, your host, andtoday it's going to be all about
wedding dresses and I have theperfect, perfect, perfect tipsy
guest for that.
Welcome, Alexandra from BellaBride Boutique.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Hi, how are you?
I am good.
How are you?
I am good.
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I'm good, I am so glad, I'm so happy to have you
here we finally did it.
I know, I know We've beentalking.
You know and it's funny becauseI always tell this to my guests
we talk about it for months andmonths, and months and months,
(01:06):
and then, you know, we waituntil like somewhat slowish
season and and then we finallymake it happen real fast.
Yes, so, so, yes again, thankyou for being here, thank you
for having me.
So you are an expert.
I want you to tell ourlisteners what you do, how long
you've had your store.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
We want to hear it all I've had bella bride
boutique for 10 years now alittle over 10 years.
I just enjoy it.
It started off with me wantingto have a business, not knowing
what I wanted to do, and then Iremembered when I was shopping
for my wedding dress, there wasnot much here in San Antonio.
(01:38):
So that's where it all startedand started.
And here we are, 10 years later, still going strong and very
blessed to still be here, and Ilove it.
I love what I do, I love makingbrides happy, being part of
that special moment.
You cry with them, you smilewith them, you have all the
(02:00):
feelings.
So it's very special to beincluded in someone else's
special moment yeah, I mean Ican just imagine.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I mean because I've been to your store many times
when you, you know when,sometimes when we, when we do
the photo booth there for someof your events, and it it feels
so like when you walk in thereit's just so welcoming, I feel
like your story's so so pretty,it's cozy like.
I feel like it's the right sizeto where you don't go to this
huge shop, but it's also not atiny little store.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
It's very intimate.
That's why the boutique itfalls into the name because it's
very intimate.
I wouldn't consider myself asmall store or a huge chain
store or anything like that.
It's very intimate.
We have two brides at a time.
We only have two fitting rooms,so it's very private in a sense
that there's not 100 peoplewatching you try on dresses.
(02:52):
We may not have 500, 600, 700dresses, we have less, but I
feel like I have quality overquantity.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
That's the key word right there.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yes, I don't have you know when the designers are
like well, here, just order thisone, it's a filling for your
filler dress.
I don't want a filler dress.
Why would I want a filler dress?
Exactly I want to make sure thatI have that.
Yes, I don't have that many,but when brides come in they
feel like, oh my gosh, I did tryon 10 dresses, I did try on 12
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dresses.
They don't feel like they'relimited by what I have.
But I really focus on thetrends that are coming out.
I follow all differentdesigners from all over the
world because I want to see.
Sometimes, you know, europe isa little bit more advanced with
fashion, but I know that that'sgoing to be coming in the next
year, so I need to be ready.
(03:46):
I need to start seeing thetrends, and I think it's
focusing on the trends andhaving those styles instead of
just having dresses that noone's asking for.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, I was gonna ask you.
Yeah, right now that youmentioned, you know that, the
trends and you know Europeanfashion and all of this.
So I guess, is there like aspecific um amount of designers
that you carry, or can stuff becustom ordered?
How does that work?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
so we carry two designers um one is a national
designer, uh, internationaldesigner, and the other one it's
sofia to, and then the otherone is Bella Rose, which is a
private label.
We curate dresses fromdifferent designers and we carry
them exclusively at our store.
(04:34):
So it's dresses that emphasizereally who the Bella bride is
and we focus a lot on that.
So, yeah, we only have two, butI think it helps out when a
bride is calling in hey, do youhave a certain dress?
We do have it because we're sofocused on those designers.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I like that.
I feel like when you givepeople more you know like a huge
variety of things, it becomesstressful.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
And also, like when we opened, um, I had like 10
designers, but because my storeis a boutique, I wasn't able to
carry 200 dresses from everydesigner, because I couldn't.
So when they called and said,hey, do you have this dress?
Oh, I don't, oh, I don't.
But now that I that I havenarrowed my, my selection, they
(05:22):
call and say, hey, do you haveit?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
yes, I do I like yes, I do, come on.
When do you want?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
to schedule your appointment.
So it makes it more now thatthey're looking for specifics.
It's more available.
I'm able to say yes more timesthan I am able to say no.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I don't have it yeah and I hate saying no.
I hate it because I feel likeI'm disappointing them.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
yes, I'm disappointing them, and they're
like oh well, we'll still comein.
Well, I don't want you to.
I want you to be excited whenyou're coming Not like well,
won't want.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Let's see what else they have.
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
So I feel like by us, you know they give us oh, I'm
looking at these five dresses.
Hey girl, I have three of them,come on over.
So I think it's more thansaying no, I don't, I don't.
So I felt like throughout theyears that those are the lessons
you learn throughout the yearswhat works, what doesn't.
And then I started narrowing itdown and this is where this is
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what works for Bella Bride.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I like it.
I like it.
And how can someone book anappointment?
Do like.
Can that be like a last minutething?
Does it have to be weeks inadvance, months in advance?
How?
How is the process of bookingor, I guess, making a
reservation or how?
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I would say, um, couple weeks, um.
But even if something comes uplet's say right now you found
out that you're gonna be in townor that your group is available
for this saturday or something,call you know.
The worst thing that can happenis say we have, we're fully
booked.
Yeah, we always start a waitlist because things change and a
bride might say, hey, my momgot sick, I'm not going to be
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able to make it, so I need toreschedule for the next weekend.
That happened, so, hey, thatjust became available.
So I would say, just call, youcan call us, you can do it
online.
Um, calling us is works bestbecause we also, even if you
submit your booking online, westill call you to confirm it.
So we're going to get you onthe phone one way or another,
(07:08):
one way or another.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
We're going to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
We want to make sure that what you're looking for is
something we have, that'ssomething we can accommodate, or
, even if it's not the exactdress, it's very similar to it,
very similar to it.
We want to get an idea of whoyou are, what your wedding looks
like or what is your vision, sothat, once you come in, we know
how to go from there.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Okay, I like that, that's, yeah, it's, it's.
I mean it's easier, it's betterwhen you, when you have, when
you make that connection, youknow with that, with the bride
and they're.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
But just showing interest in your brides, because
we are interested in yourvision.
We want to know where you'regetting married.
Are you getting married on thebeach, in a ballroom, in a
farmhouse?
Where are you getting married?
Because that's going to alsodepend on how you're wanting to
sell it.
But I also told the bridesdon't let the venue dictate how
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you're getting what you'rechoosing.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
What you're getting yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Because I've had brides who are literally getting
married at the courthousedowntown and they're in a ball
gown.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
And I tell the brides you're still a bride, it's your
wedding, it's your wedding,don't let.
Oh, I'm having a very small,intimate wedding in my parents'
backyard, so You've got to lookgood, you're still the bride.
Do you want to go out in a bigball gown with lace and sparkle?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Do it yeah because I mean, you know, different brides
have different priorities.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
So, they might not want to spend a lot for the
venue, but they want a very nicedress, but I don't want the
venue to limit their mentalityon what they're able to get or
not get.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I like that.
I never even thought about itthat way.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
And then I guess, in your experience, what seems to
be a very common trend when itcomes to dresses Right now the
basque waist, which is veryhourglass shape.
It goes down in a point at thewaist.
It's very 80s 90s.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I was going to say that yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I mean every designer .
That's a new trend, the basquewaist, and it does a woman's
body great.
I mean every bride looks greatin a basque waist because it's
really narrowing on that part ofthe woman that we want to show
off our waist area and the cleanstyles no lace, no sparkle,
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classic.
Some might say oh, I'm lookingfor something plain.
I'm like that's not plain,don't use that word.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Please don't use that word.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Just because it doesn't have lace or sparkle
doesn't mean you're plain, it'sjust very classic.
Elegant, very classic Veryelegant and that's very popular
right now.
I would say we've seen a shiftfrom lace and sparkle to that
clean look Minimalist.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Minimalist, I love that.
Yeah, I love that.
And you know what it's sointeresting?
Because not only with dressesare we seeing that trend, but
just in general, like, forexample, with us with the photo
booths.
You know, it's always beenabout open air photo booths and
the sparkles and this and that.
Right now, the enclosedtraditional photo booth, the
wide background, it's back, likeeven like now, like those photo
(10:21):
booths that you used to see,like at the carnivals or the
movies, that little one whereyou go in, it's back and I think
it's so timeless because youreally are going to look at
those pictures in 30 years andit's a timeless look.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
It's not something that was so crazy in the time
that you got married that you'relooking at it and being like
Like you won't be able to tellno, yeah.
I see my mom's looking at andbe like, well, you won't be able
to tell no, yeah, like I know.
I see my mom's dress.
I'm like, oh lady, you gotmarried in the eighties, like I
can tell by, you know the dress,the sleeves, everything.
(10:54):
I know what era she got married.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yeah, that's so funny .
Speaker 2 (10:59):
But I think with the classic look.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
You just can't.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
You can't, you cannot say you got married in the
2010s, you don't know, becauseit's so timeless.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, and I think that's what brides are really
into right now.
I like that because, yeah, Imean the modern bride right now,
like I feel like they.
You know, a few years years agoit was very extravagant, yes,
and and now, like you said, youknow, it's more minimalist and I
honestly feel like they.
Just I feel like it's betterbecause it's it's.
(11:30):
You know that the dress is notwearing you like you're wearing
the dress people are saying.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
That's what I tell prides.
Make sure that when thosestores open and you're walking
down the aisle, that they'relooking at you as a whole and
not as a oh, did you see thedress?
Did you see the veil?
Did you see the earrings?
Did you see the necklace?
Did you see the hair?
No, because then at that pointthey're not looking at you,
they're looking at theindividual pieces that you have
on.
I want to make sure that,whatever dress you pick out,
(11:58):
it's something that they'relooking at you as a whole and
that's how sometimes, all of asudden, it clicks and when the
emotions start, because that'swhen they see it.
Yeah, so that's very powerfulseeing, envisioning it that day.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Oh, yeah, I love that .
And you know what, somethingthat I've always wondered, I
guess, when they purchase thedress, does that automatically
come with the veil, no, or isthat something that you can just
mix and match, or how does thatwork?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
So it's just a dress.
It doesn't include anyaccessories.
It doesn't include alterations,that's all separate.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Okay, and is that something that you guys have?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
in-house.
We offer all the accessoriesavailable.
We do not do the alterationsin-house, but we do have someone
that we refer our brides to,who we trust, who's been doing
bridal for 25 years plus.
So I always tell brides andit's not someone that you have
to go to, it's ourrecommendation, you can go
anywhere, but I always tellbrides, make sure you go to a
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bridal seamstress.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
A professional yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Because we've had it in 10.
In 10 years I think it's onlyhappened two times, when brides
took it to their seamstress.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Oh no.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
And guess what?
They're calling me crying thatthey need a new dress.
They need a new dress.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
So okay, so in situations like that, I guess
and I think you did mentionsomething like that earlier so
if something like this happens,can somebody just go last minute
and be like I need this one.
I'm taking it right now.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
You can.
I'm not sure if it's going tofit you perfectly.
You might still needalterations.
But yes, a bride can walk inand say I'm getting married next
week, I need a dress.
I'm taking the sample, I needto go to the seamstress.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
It's possible.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
It's a little crazy, but it's doable.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
What's your recommendation on timeframes,
for example, like if somebodyneeds to get their dress fixed?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
So average time.
I always tell average time.
Dresses are taking around sixto eight months to come in and
then it takes two months onaverage time in alterations.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
So I would say, definitely give yourself a year
if you have it.
If not, it's still not an issue.
One of the designers that wecarry has a live inventory that
is used for situations whereit's a quick turnaround, where
it's an emergency.
So we're able to look into thatinventory and still get you a
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dress that you like in a quickertime frame with no rush fees.
Okay.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
All right, all right, so it just depends, it just
depends on the dress.
Got it.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I'm not going to tell you that every single dress is
available for a quick turnaround.
It just literally.
We have brides who come in.
Whoever's helping the bride isyelling out style numbers, while
the other one's on the computerlooking it up yes, it's
available.
No, it's available.
No, it's available, so that itreally helps us really putting
the bride in a dress that we'reable to get, Because the worst
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thing that can happen is put herin a dress, oh sorry.
Not, there it's not coming tillafter your wedding date, so that
would be the worst thing.
So we make sure that we don'tdo that to our brides.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah.
You definitely don't want toadd stress or disappointment,
disappointment.
Walk out of the store and justfeel like, yeah, yes, like a
waste of time, yeah, all right.
And then what about colors?
Um, I mean, of course you know,traditional would be, I guess,
give me ivory.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Okay, I was yeah okay , white is long gone.
All right, designers are even,uh, discontinuing it from their
color swatch.
It's very traditional, but Ithink the ivory has come in to
replace it because it's softer.
It's softer on every skin tone.
I always tell brides the real,pure white, like when the DJ
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turns on the lights you're goingto be the neon person.
Yeah, I said you don't wantthat.
So the ivories, champagnes,blushes, blushy colors are very
in also, but right now, with theclean look coming in, the ivory
is that's what's in right.
That's what's in and brides usedto come in saying, oh, I don't
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want an all ivory, I want somecolor.
And now they're like I reallywant an all ivory dress.
So you see the changes and youjust need to adjust, adapt and
start getting those dresses infor the next brides that are
coming in.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Oh, yeah, for sure.
What are your thoughts on likeactual, like color, like
different colors, like black orlike?
I mean I don't think I've seenother.
I've seen black wedding dresses, but I mean I don't.
Is there even such a thingthat's like a red wedding dress
or like a blue wedding dressRight now?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
there started to be a little bit of a trend on
colorful dresses, like theflorals.
The lace was florals.
We used to have a couple, not alot, um, we even had a black
dress.
We had two black dresses, Ibelieve.
(16:48):
So san antonio is verytraditional.
Yeah, so I think in differentparts of the country that was
the hit.
The colorful colors, uh, thecolorful laces, um, or the black
color, the black lace, theblack colors that I think that
was very popular in differentparts of the country, but Not in
San Antonio, is verytraditional.
I think our brides, thefamilies, grandma does not want
to see a colorful, yeah, most ofthe time.
(17:10):
So I think it's there.
I don't know if San Antonio isthe right at that point yes,
correct, I think it has to dowith, maybe Dallas is, yeah, san
Antonio.
I don't think it's, you don'tsee it.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I don't think it's safe.
You don't see it.
I don't see it.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
If I have a hundred brides, maybe one will ask for a
colorful dress, so it reallydoesn't.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Okay, and what about the length of the dress?
Like, what is the perfectlength for a dress?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Just your floor length.
Floor length is the perfect.
There's some stores that havethe T length, you know, below
the knee.
I think that's very.
I feel it's a little bit morecasual.
I'm not saying that it couldn'tbe a formal dress, I'm just
saying it's a little bit morecasual.
We don't have any T lengthdresses.
We really focus on the fulllength, full bridal look.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yeah, okay.
And then, for example, I knowthere's been a lot of like, for
example, with me, with the photobooth business.
I've been doing a lot of brunchweddings.
I guess when it's a brunchwedding, is it?
I mean, should you still wearlike a long dress?
Of course, why not?
It's your wedding, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
And I see on those we've had those.
They want something more simple.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
The brunch weddings that we've had have been asking
for the fitted dresses, nothingwith too much volume.
The seamstress tends to cut thetrain off of it or make it
shorter, but they still.
I think most of our bridesstill want to wear.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
A long.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Because I feel, and one of them told me that she was
recommended to just wear a Tlength dress and she goes.
Well, that's what I'm wearingfor my bridal shower.
What's going to be thedifference between my bridal
shower and my wedding and I waslike that makes so much sense.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Why?
Yeah, you gotta make astatement.
So if you look at the picturein 30 years, which one's which
which one's which which one'sthe wedding, which one's the
bridal shower?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Yeah, so I think, you know, I think you have to be
able to distinguish it,distinguish it, it's different.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yeah, no for sure.
And then I guess, prices I meanI'm sure our listeners here
they want to know prices Isthere and you don't have to be
very specific, of course, sinceyou have so many different
options, but like I would say,range, like what would be like
the most, like economical option, and then like the over the top
, like you know, they want tospend the money we start at
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$1,500.
Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I would say our range is from $1,500 to $3,500.
Okay, with our majority of thedresses being between the $1,500
and $2,500 price point.
Okay, majority of the dressesbeing between the 15 and 2500
price point.
That's our sweet spot.
For us, um, I think it's theaverage price point here in san
antonio, the average budget.
Yeah, so I.
I really.
That's the reason why we havethese designers too, because I
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really wanted to focus on thebudgets.
There's what's the reasonbehind having all these dresses
a lot higher in the price pointwhen my brides that's not the
budget.
So I really focus on designerswho had the quality dresses, a
dress, and we've had brides, ohyou know, ask, uh, how much is
(20:19):
this?
Oh, it's 2,400.
Oh my God, that looks like a$5,000 dress.
It was like, and that's thepoint right there.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
That's good, because then, if they already had in
mind that they were going tospend this much, but they're not
, yes and I always tell them Iwas like girl, now you have a
budget for the shoes, Go getthose Jimmy Choos, Go glam it up
.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
So that's where our price point is You're still
getting a designer dress, verygood quality, and you're not
having to sacrifice for the lookor for the designer.
You're still getting anexcellent dress.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I like that In your opinion and I ask this to most
of my vendors here because youknow, obviously everybody offers
something different but in youropinion, for example, with
wedding dresses, where in thelist of priorities should the
wedding dress be located?
Speaker 2 (21:10):
It should be the venue and the wedding dress.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
And the wedding dress .
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Okay, Because of the time frame of the dress.
Also, when you go to yourflorist and you start talking
about your bouquet, your floristis going to ask you your dress
look like yeah okay, bridesmaidsdresses make sense what does
your dress look like?
because you wanted to match orcoordinate with your dress.
Uh, decorations, if you really.
(21:37):
If you're going for thefarmhouse style wedding and you
come in with the big crystals orsomething, you could do that,
but do you want it to flow?
So those are the things.
It really starts rolling theball.
Your hair and makeup.
What do you want your hair tolook like?
Well, this is what my dresslooks like, depends on the dress
, yeah, how do you want yourmakeup?
(21:59):
Well, this is what my dresslooks like, so I think a lot of
things start flowing from thedress.
It's a domino effect.
It's a domino effect and youneed to have a wedding date to
be able to know, because cold,hot, yeah the weather or the
weather, not really.
It's mostly that when are yougetting married?
Yeah, when are you gettingmarried?
(22:20):
Because are you getting marriednext month, are you getting
married in a year?
So I think, venue setting thedate, picking the venue and the
wedding dress is your top.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
The top two for you.
Okay, I like that.
Yeah, Venue, definitely.
You know, I always tell mycouples I'm like do you have a
venue?
Yes, Because that's you know,if you don't have a venue, then
you shouldn't really be bookingany other stuff because you
don't have a place.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
You don't have a place and they tell me oh, it's
may 20th.
Oh, where are you getting me?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
oh, I'm not sure how do you know it's may 20th?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
because I mean yeah you're here at the store made
and telling me 20th, but thenwhen you book that may, 20th is
no longer available yeah so bookthe date, secure it, and then,
and then, let's talk, let's findyou a dress.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I love that.
And then about because I know,like I mentioned earlier, I've
been at the store whenever youdo special trunk shows or sales.
How often do you have sales?
I guess, first, what's thedifference between a trunk show
and, I guess, like a sale?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
So the trunk show, it's on a designer, we bring in
dresses that we do not carryfrom that designer show and I
guess like a sale, like what?
So the trunk show, it's on adesigner, a design, we bring in
dresses that we do not carryfrom that designer and norm, or
like, yeah, that we don't havein store for you to try on, so
they're normally one to twoweekends long.
Um, we are able to offerspecial discounts that we
normally do not offer during theregular year.
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And then the sale is wheneverything in the store is on
sale.
We had ours last June.
It was a sample sale and theentire store, every single item
in the store, was on sale, everysingle dress, from anywhere
from 20% to 80% percent so itwas.
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We were fully booked.
It was amazing.
We do that every june, um, andthen our next sale will probably
be the thanksgiving sale oh,okay, perfect.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
So you do have some throughout the year, but the
biggest one, the biggest one isa sample sale in june.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I would say thanksgiving is a pretty good
one because we offer discountswith that.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Even we don't offer during the trunk shows, so I
would say brides wanting to comein around that time, look at
our instagram I love it and thatperfect that you mentioned that
, because we are running out oftime now, but please let our
listeners know where can theyfind you, and I'm assuming on
your instagram you post thedifferent inventory you have yes
, every time we get new dressesin, they're going to be on there
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.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Um, we post any special promotions, any special
trunk shows, um, yeah.
So I would say, our instagramis at bella bride boutique, so
our Facebook and we posteverything on there.
Follow us, our stories, ourposts and you'll be very
informed about what's going onat the store.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Awesome.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Alexandra.
Thank you, Marco.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
We are out of time, but again, I am so glad that you
finally made it.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
It's been a pleasure that we were able to do this.
Finally.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
I know, I know we able to do this Finally.
No, I know we need to getCarolina out of here too.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yes, I had so much fun.
Thank you for having me.
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Thank you guys.
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Hey guys, welcome back to theTipsy Guest.
I am Marco, your host, andtoday it's going to be all about
wedding dresses and I have theperfect, perfect, perfect tipsy
guest for that.
Welcome, Alexandra from BellaBride Boutique.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Hi, how are you?
I am good.
How are you?
I am good.
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I'm good, I am so glad, I'm so happy to have you
here we finally did it.
I know, I know We've beentalking.
You know and it's funny becauseI always tell this to my guests
we talk about it for months andmonths, and months and months,
(01:06):
and then, you know, we waituntil like somewhat slowish
season and and then we finallymake it happen real fast.
Yes, so, so, yes again, thankyou for being here, thank you
for having me.
So you are an expert.
I want you to tell ourlisteners what you do, how long
you've had your store.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
We want to hear it all I've had bella bride
boutique for 10 years now alittle over 10 years.
I just enjoy it.
It started off with me wantingto have a business, not knowing
what I wanted to do, and then Iremembered when I was shopping
for my wedding dress, there wasnot much here in San Antonio.
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So that's where it all startedand started.
And here we are, 10 years later, still going strong and very
blessed to still be here, and Ilove it.
I love what I do, I love makingbrides happy, being part of
that special moment.
You cry with them, you smilewith them, you have all the
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feelings.
So it's very special to beincluded in someone else's
special moment yeah, I mean Ican just imagine.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I mean because I've been to your store many times
when you, you know when,sometimes when we, when we do
the photo booth there for someof your events, and it it feels
so like when you walk in thereit's just so welcoming, I feel
like your story's so so pretty,it's cozy like.
I feel like it's the right sizeto where you don't go to this
huge shop, but it's also not atiny little store.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
It's very intimate.
That's why the boutique itfalls into the name because it's
very intimate.
I wouldn't consider myself asmall store or a huge chain
store or anything like that.
It's very intimate.
We have two brides at a time.
We only have two fitting rooms,so it's very private in a sense
that there's not 100 peoplewatching you try on dresses.
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We may not have 500, 600, 700dresses, we have less, but I
feel like I have quality overquantity.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
That's the key word right there.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yes, I don't have you know when the designers are
like well, here, just order thisone, it's a filling for your
filler dress.
I don't want a filler dress.
Why would I want a filler dress?
Exactly I want to make sure thatI have that.
Yes, I don't have that many,but when brides come in they
feel like, oh my gosh, I did tryon 10 dresses, I did try on 12
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dresses.
They don't feel like they'relimited by what I have.
But I really focus on thetrends that are coming out.
I follow all differentdesigners from all over the
world because I want to see.
Sometimes, you know, europe isa little bit more advanced with
fashion, but I know that that'sgoing to be coming in the next
year, so I need to be ready.
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I need to start seeing thetrends, and I think it's
focusing on the trends andhaving those styles instead of
just having dresses that noone's asking for.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, I was gonna ask you.
Yeah, right now that youmentioned, you know that, the
trends and you know Europeanfashion and all of this.
So I guess, is there like aspecific um amount of designers
that you carry, or can stuff becustom ordered?
How does that work?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
so we carry two designers um one is a national
designer, uh, internationaldesigner, and the other one it's
sofia to, and then the otherone is Bella Rose, which is a
private label.
We curate dresses fromdifferent designers and we carry
them exclusively at our store.
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So it's dresses that emphasizereally who the Bella bride is
and we focus a lot on that.
So, yeah, we only have two, butI think it helps out when a
bride is calling in hey, do youhave a certain dress?
We do have it because we're sofocused on those designers.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I like that.
I feel like when you givepeople more you know like a huge
variety of things, it becomesstressful.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
And also, like when we opened, um, I had like 10
designers, but because my storeis a boutique, I wasn't able to
carry 200 dresses from everydesigner, because I couldn't.
So when they called and said,hey, do you have this dress?
Oh, I don't, oh, I don't.
But now that I that I havenarrowed my, my selection, they
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call and say, hey, do you haveit?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
yes, I do I like yes, I do, come on.
When do you want?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
to schedule your appointment.
So it makes it more now thatthey're looking for specifics.
It's more available.
I'm able to say yes more timesthan I am able to say no.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I don't have it yeah and I hate saying no.
I hate it because I feel likeI'm disappointing them.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
yes, I'm disappointing them, and they're
like oh well, we'll still comein.
Well, I don't want you to.
I want you to be excited whenyou're coming Not like well,
won't want.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Let's see what else they have.
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
So I feel like by us, you know they give us oh, I'm
looking at these five dresses.
Hey girl, I have three of them,come on over.
So I think it's more thansaying no, I don't, I don't.
So I felt like throughout theyears that those are the lessons
you learn throughout the yearswhat works, what doesn't.
And then I started narrowing itdown and this is where this is
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what works for Bella Bride.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I like it.
I like it.
And how can someone book anappointment?
Do like.
Can that be like a last minutething?
Does it have to be weeks inadvance, months in advance?
How?
How is the process of bookingor, I guess, making a
reservation or how?
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I would say, um, couple weeks, um.
But even if something comes uplet's say right now you found
out that you're gonna be in townor that your group is available
for this saturday or something,call you know.
The worst thing that can happenis say we have, we're fully
booked.
Yeah, we always start a waitlist because things change and a
bride might say, hey, my momgot sick, I'm not going to be
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able to make it, so I need toreschedule for the next weekend.
That happened, so, hey, thatjust became available.
So I would say, just call, youcan call us, you can do it
online.
Um, calling us is works bestbecause we also, even if you
submit your booking online, westill call you to confirm it.
So we're going to get you onthe phone one way or another,
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one way or another.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
We're going to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
We want to make sure that what you're looking for is
something we have, that'ssomething we can accommodate, or
, even if it's not the exactdress, it's very similar to it,
very similar to it.
We want to get an idea of whoyou are, what your wedding looks
like or what is your vision, sothat, once you come in, we know
how to go from there.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Okay, I like that, that's, yeah, it's, it's.
I mean it's easier, it's betterwhen you, when you have, when
you make that connection, youknow with that, with the bride
and they're.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
But just showing interest in your brides, because
we are interested in yourvision.
We want to know where you'regetting married.
Are you getting married on thebeach, in a ballroom, in a
farmhouse?
Where are you getting married?
Because that's going to alsodepend on how you're wanting to
sell it.
But I also told the bridesdon't let the venue dictate how
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you're getting what you'rechoosing.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
What you're getting yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Because I've had brides who are literally getting
married at the courthousedowntown and they're in a ball
gown.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
And I tell the brides you're still a bride, it's your
wedding, it's your wedding,don't let.
Oh, I'm having a very small,intimate wedding in my parents'
backyard, so You've got to lookgood, you're still the bride.
Do you want to go out in a bigball gown with lace and sparkle?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Do it yeah because I mean, you know, different brides
have different priorities.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
So, they might not want to spend a lot for the
venue, but they want a very nicedress, but I don't want the
venue to limit their mentalityon what they're able to get or
not get.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I like that.
I never even thought about itthat way.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
And then I guess, in your experience, what seems to
be a very common trend when itcomes to dresses Right now the
basque waist, which is veryhourglass shape.
It goes down in a point at thewaist.
It's very 80s 90s.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I was going to say that yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I mean every designer .
That's a new trend, the basquewaist, and it does a woman's
body great.
I mean every bride looks greatin a basque waist because it's
really narrowing on that part ofthe woman that we want to show
off our waist area and the cleanstyles no lace, no sparkle,
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classic.
Some might say oh, I'm lookingfor something plain.
I'm like that's not plain,don't use that word.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Please don't use that word.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Just because it doesn't have lace or sparkle
doesn't mean you're plain, it'sjust very classic.
Elegant, very classic Veryelegant and that's very popular
right now.
I would say we've seen a shiftfrom lace and sparkle to that
clean look Minimalist.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Minimalist, I love that.
Yeah, I love that.
And you know what it's sointeresting?
Because not only with dressesare we seeing that trend, but
just in general, like, forexample, with us with the photo
booths.
You know, it's always beenabout open air photo booths and
the sparkles and this and that.
Right now, the enclosedtraditional photo booth, the
wide background, it's back, likeeven like now, like those photo
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booths that you used to see,like at the carnivals or the
movies, that little one whereyou go in, it's back and I think
it's so timeless because youreally are going to look at
those pictures in 30 years andit's a timeless look.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
It's not something that was so crazy in the time
that you got married that you'relooking at it and being like
Like you won't be able to tellno, yeah.
I see my mom's looking at andbe like, well, you won't be able
to tell no, yeah, like I know.
I see my mom's dress.
I'm like, oh lady, you gotmarried in the eighties, like I
can tell by, you know the dress,the sleeves, everything.
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I know what era she got married.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yeah, that's so funny .
Speaker 2 (10:59):
But I think with the classic look.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
You just can't.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
You can't, you cannot say you got married in the
2010s, you don't know, becauseit's so timeless.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, and I think that's what brides are really
into right now.
I like that because, yeah, Imean the modern bride right now,
like I feel like they.
You know, a few years years agoit was very extravagant, yes,
and and now, like you said, youknow, it's more minimalist and I
honestly feel like they.
Just I feel like it's betterbecause it's it's.
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You know that the dress is notwearing you like you're wearing
the dress people are saying.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
That's what I tell prides.
Make sure that when thosestores open and you're walking
down the aisle, that they'relooking at you as a whole and
not as a oh, did you see thedress?
Did you see the veil?
Did you see the earrings?
Did you see the necklace?
Did you see the hair?
No, because then at that pointthey're not looking at you,
they're looking at theindividual pieces that you have
on.
I want to make sure that,whatever dress you pick out,
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it's something that they'relooking at you as a whole and
that's how sometimes, all of asudden, it clicks and when the
emotions start, because that'swhen they see it.
Yeah, so that's very powerfulseeing, envisioning it that day.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Oh, yeah, I love that .
And you know what, somethingthat I've always wondered, I
guess, when they purchase thedress, does that automatically
come with the veil, no, or isthat something that you can just
mix and match, or how does thatwork?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
So it's just a dress.
It doesn't include anyaccessories.
It doesn't include alterations,that's all separate.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Okay, and is that something that you guys have?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
in-house.
We offer all the accessoriesavailable.
We do not do the alterationsin-house, but we do have someone
that we refer our brides to,who we trust, who's been doing
bridal for 25 years plus.
So I always tell brides andit's not someone that you have
to go to, it's ourrecommendation, you can go
anywhere, but I always tellbrides, make sure you go to a
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bridal seamstress.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
A professional yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Because we've had it in 10.
In 10 years I think it's onlyhappened two times, when brides
took it to their seamstress.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Oh no.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
And guess what?
They're calling me crying thatthey need a new dress.
They need a new dress.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
So okay, so in situations like that, I guess
and I think you did mentionsomething like that earlier so
if something like this happens,can somebody just go last minute
and be like I need this one.
I'm taking it right now.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
You can.
I'm not sure if it's going tofit you perfectly.
You might still needalterations.
But yes, a bride can walk inand say I'm getting married next
week, I need a dress.
I'm taking the sample, I needto go to the seamstress.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
It's possible.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
It's a little crazy, but it's doable.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
What's your recommendation on timeframes,
for example, like if somebodyneeds to get their dress fixed?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
So average time.
I always tell average time.
Dresses are taking around sixto eight months to come in and
then it takes two months onaverage time in alterations.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
So I would say, definitely give yourself a year
if you have it.
If not, it's still not an issue.
One of the designers that wecarry has a live inventory that
is used for situations whereit's a quick turnaround, where
it's an emergency.
So we're able to look into thatinventory and still get you a
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dress that you like in a quickertime frame with no rush fees.
Okay.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
All right, all right, so it just depends, it just
depends on the dress.
Got it.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I'm not going to tell you that every single dress is
available for a quick turnaround.
It just literally.
We have brides who come in.
Whoever's helping the bride isyelling out style numbers, while
the other one's on the computerlooking it up yes, it's
available.
No, it's available.
No, it's available, so that itreally helps us really putting
the bride in a dress that we'reable to get, Because the worst
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thing that can happen is put herin a dress, oh sorry.
Not, there it's not coming tillafter your wedding date, so that
would be the worst thing.
So we make sure that we don'tdo that to our brides.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah.
You definitely don't want toadd stress or disappointment,
disappointment.
Walk out of the store and justfeel like, yeah, yes, like a
waste of time, yeah, all right.
And then what about colors?
Um, I mean, of course you know,traditional would be, I guess,
give me ivory.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Okay, I was yeah okay , white is long gone.
All right, designers are even,uh, discontinuing it from their
color swatch.
It's very traditional, but Ithink the ivory has come in to
replace it because it's softer.
It's softer on every skin tone.
I always tell brides the real,pure white, like when the DJ
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turns on the lights you're goingto be the neon person.
Yeah, I said you don't wantthat.
So the ivories, champagnes,blushes, blushy colors are very
in also, but right now, with theclean look coming in, the ivory
is that's what's in right.
That's what's in and brides usedto come in saying, oh, I don't
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want an all ivory, I want somecolor.
And now they're like I reallywant an all ivory dress.
So you see the changes and youjust need to adjust, adapt and
start getting those dresses infor the next brides that are
coming in.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Oh, yeah, for sure.
What are your thoughts on likeactual, like color, like
different colors, like black orlike?
I mean I don't think I've seenother.
I've seen black wedding dresses, but I mean I don't.
Is there even such a thingthat's like a red wedding dress
or like a blue wedding dressRight now?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
there started to be a little bit of a trend on
colorful dresses, like theflorals.
The lace was florals.
We used to have a couple, not alot, um, we even had a black
dress.
We had two black dresses, Ibelieve.
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So san antonio is verytraditional.
Yeah, so I think in differentparts of the country that was
the hit.
The colorful colors, uh, thecolorful laces, um, or the black
color, the black lace, theblack colors that I think that
was very popular in differentparts of the country, but Not in
San Antonio, is verytraditional.
I think our brides, thefamilies, grandma does not want
to see a colorful, yeah, most ofthe time.
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So I think it's there.
I don't know if San Antonio isthe right at that point yes,
correct, I think it has to dowith, maybe Dallas is, yeah, san
Antonio.
I don't think it's, you don'tsee it.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I don't think it's safe.
You don't see it.
I don't see it.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
If I have a hundred brides, maybe one will ask for a
colorful dress, so it reallydoesn't.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Okay, and what about the length of the dress?
Like, what is the perfectlength for a dress?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Just your floor length.
Floor length is the perfect.
There's some stores that havethe T length, you know, below
the knee.
I think that's very.
I feel it's a little bit morecasual.
I'm not saying that it couldn'tbe a formal dress, I'm just
saying it's a little bit morecasual.
We don't have any T lengthdresses.
We really focus on the fulllength, full bridal look.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yeah, okay.
And then, for example, I knowthere's been a lot of like, for
example, with me, with the photobooth business.
I've been doing a lot of brunchweddings.
I guess when it's a brunchwedding, is it?
I mean, should you still wearlike a long dress?
Of course, why not?
It's your wedding, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
And I see on those we've had those.
They want something more simple.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
The brunch weddings that we've had have been asking
for the fitted dresses, nothingwith too much volume.
The seamstress tends to cut thetrain off of it or make it
shorter, but they still.
I think most of our bridesstill want to wear.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
A long.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Because I feel, and one of them told me that she was
recommended to just wear a Tlength dress and she goes.
Well, that's what I'm wearingfor my bridal shower.
What's going to be thedifference between my bridal
shower and my wedding and I waslike that makes so much sense.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Why?
Yeah, you gotta make astatement.
So if you look at the picturein 30 years, which one's which
which one's which which one'sthe wedding, which one's the
bridal shower?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Yeah, so I think, you know, I think you have to be
able to distinguish it,distinguish it, it's different.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yeah, no for sure.
And then I guess, prices I meanI'm sure our listeners here
they want to know prices Isthere and you don't have to be
very specific, of course, sinceyou have so many different
options, but like I would say,range, like what would be like
the most, like economical option, and then like the over the top
, like you know, they want tospend the money we start at
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$1,500.
Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I would say our range is from $1,500 to $3,500.
Okay, with our majority of thedresses being between the $1,500
and $2,500 price point.
Okay, majority of the dressesbeing between the 15 and 2500
price point.
That's our sweet spot.
For us, um, I think it's theaverage price point here in san
antonio, the average budget.
Yeah, so I.
I really.
That's the reason why we havethese designers too, because I
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really wanted to focus on thebudgets.
There's what's the reasonbehind having all these dresses
a lot higher in the price pointwhen my brides that's not the
budget.
So I really focus on designerswho had the quality dresses, a
dress, and we've had brides, ohyou know, ask, uh, how much is
(20:19):
this?
Oh, it's 2,400.
Oh my God, that looks like a$5,000 dress.
It was like, and that's thepoint right there.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
That's good, because then, if they already had in
mind that they were going tospend this much, but they're not
, yes and I always tell them Iwas like girl, now you have a
budget for the shoes, Go getthose Jimmy Choos, Go glam it up
.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
So that's where our price point is You're still
getting a designer dress, verygood quality, and you're not
having to sacrifice for the lookor for the designer.
You're still getting anexcellent dress.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I like that In your opinion and I ask this to most
of my vendors here because youknow, obviously everybody offers
something different but in youropinion, for example, with
wedding dresses, where in thelist of priorities should the
wedding dress be located?
Speaker 2 (21:10):
It should be the venue and the wedding dress.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
And the wedding dress .
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Okay, Because of the time frame of the dress.
Also, when you go to yourflorist and you start talking
about your bouquet, your floristis going to ask you your dress
look like yeah okay, bridesmaidsdresses make sense what does
your dress look like?
because you wanted to match orcoordinate with your dress.
Uh, decorations, if you really.
(21:37):
If you're going for thefarmhouse style wedding and you
come in with the big crystals orsomething, you could do that,
but do you want it to flow?
So those are the things.
It really starts rolling theball.
Your hair and makeup.
What do you want your hair tolook like?
Well, this is what my dresslooks like, depends on the dress
, yeah, how do you want yourmakeup?
(21:59):
Well, this is what my dresslooks like, so I think a lot of
things start flowing from thedress.
It's a domino effect.
It's a domino effect and youneed to have a wedding date to
be able to know, because cold,hot, yeah the weather or the
weather, not really.
It's mostly that when are yougetting married?
Yeah, when are you gettingmarried?
(22:20):
Because are you getting marriednext month, are you getting
married in a year?
So I think, venue setting thedate, picking the venue and the
wedding dress is your top.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
The top two for you.
Okay, I like that.
Yeah, Venue, definitely.
You know, I always tell mycouples I'm like do you have a
venue?
Yes, Because that's you know,if you don't have a venue, then
you shouldn't really be bookingany other stuff because you
don't have a place.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
You don't have a place and they tell me oh, it's
may 20th.
Oh, where are you getting me?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
oh, I'm not sure how do you know it's may 20th?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
because I mean yeah you're here at the store made
and telling me 20th, but thenwhen you book that may, 20th is
no longer available yeah so bookthe date, secure it, and then,
and then, let's talk, let's findyou a dress.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I love that.
And then about because I know,like I mentioned earlier, I've
been at the store whenever youdo special trunk shows or sales.
How often do you have sales?
I guess, first, what's thedifference between a trunk show
and, I guess, like a sale?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
So the trunk show, it's on a designer, we bring in
dresses that we do not carryfrom that designer show and I
guess like a sale, like what?
So the trunk show, it's on adesigner, a design, we bring in
dresses that we do not carryfrom that designer and norm, or
like, yeah, that we don't havein store for you to try on, so
they're normally one to twoweekends long.
Um, we are able to offerspecial discounts that we
normally do not offer during theregular year.
(23:45):
And then the sale is wheneverything in the store is on
sale.
We had ours last June.
It was a sample sale and theentire store, every single item
in the store, was on sale, everysingle dress, from anywhere
from 20% to 80% percent so itwas.
(24:09):
We were fully booked.
It was amazing.
We do that every june, um, andthen our next sale will probably
be the thanksgiving sale oh,okay, perfect.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
So you do have some throughout the year, but the
biggest one, the biggest one isa sample sale in june.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I would say thanksgiving is a pretty good
one because we offer discountswith that.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Even we don't offer during the trunk shows, so I
would say brides wanting to comein around that time, look at
our instagram I love it and thatperfect that you mentioned that
, because we are running out oftime now, but please let our
listeners know where can theyfind you, and I'm assuming on
your instagram you post thedifferent inventory you have yes
, every time we get new dressesin, they're going to be on there
(24:51):
.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Um, we post any special promotions, any special
trunk shows, um, yeah.
So I would say, our instagramis at bella bride boutique, so
our Facebook and we posteverything on there.
Follow us, our stories, ourposts and you'll be very
informed about what's going onat the store.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Awesome.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Alexandra.
Thank you, Marco.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
We are out of time, but again, I am so glad that you
finally made it.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
It's been a pleasure that we were able to do this.
Finally.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
I know, I know we able to do this Finally.
No, I know we need to getCarolina out of here too.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yes, I had so much fun.
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Thank you guys.
There you have it, everythingabout wedding dresses.
So make sure that you followthem.
Go check out their Instagramfeed and then, for you guys,
we'll check you out next week.
See ya.
Thanks for listening podcast.
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