I live in East Texas and dedicated an entire day plus a 5 hour round trip to try out this bridal boutique. I scheduled an appointment on a Sunday afternoon at 3pm and was told I would have a 2 hour block to find and try on dresses. Also, I was told they were having an Allure trunk show going on as well. When I arrived they were fairly busy and my consultant's previous client had shown up late. This forced the manager, possibly owner, to have to help me. I told her I had made this trip because I was interested in the Allure gowns. She led me to a single rack with maybe 15 dresses from that designer, 7ish of which had green tags that were the "trunk show" dresses. Still, a very limited supply and somewhat disappointing selection considering I had 5 style numbers I was interested in and not one was there on hand. Ultimately, my biggest complaint is that I felt my "consultant" was busy orchestrating everyone else in the boutique and clearly was not giving me the attention that a customer ready to spend over a thousand dollars in their store deserved. She only made ONE pull of dresses composed of very similar styles. After I tried on the first two, I thought I had made it clear to her that wasn't exactly what I was looking for. I did find a gown that I really liked quite a bit and explained to her that was more like what I was looking for, and she never offered to pull more gowns similar to that one. The last straw was the price. The woman initially told me that the price with the 10% discount from the trunk show would be $1,289 (which is about right, I saw a price of $1,429 on the tag). She later comes back with a card that says Allure #4430 $1,379. I asked her about the price change and she said that the dress was $1,589 (if that truly was the price then her second price is still INCORRECT if you do the math with a 10% discount). I went back to the dress to look at the tag and it was gone. At this point I was incredibly frustrated and ready to leave (after only being there for maybe 45 minutes total). Once I got back to my car, I immediately googled "Allure 4430" on my iPhone - it returned no results and did not exist. After going through pages of dresses on the Allure website I found out the style number was 8867. I don't know what was up with this place on this particular day. I don't know if they were intentionally trying to be shady. But I do know that I absolutely would not spend a dime in there and I would not recommend it to anyone else!
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