I emailed Melane ahead of time as her shop was listed under one of the shops in New England that carried the brand that had my dream dress. She didn't have it but did special order a sample for me - this was the only shop that would do this for me. There were a few other New England shops that carried the brand but never got back to me about getting a sample for THE dress.

When I mentioned that we have two brides, she didn't even bat an eyelash and our experience in the shop was incredibly fun and inviting. She got us dressing rooms right next to each other in a large room with plenty of space for us to show off both dresses at the same time.

Melane was also incredibly intuitive and had me falling in love with dresses that I never would have even thought to try on. Unfortunately the sample dress that was sent was an incredibly small size so I did not fit it, but Melane was resilient and insisted on me still being able to experience this dress. There were other similar dresses I could try on to know if it was something I'd even enjoy and we were able to layer two different dresses on top of each other to get the exact silhouette of THE dress. I fell in love and it didn't take much imagination to know how the real dress will feel.

We even caught some of the additional staff choking up over some of the dresses and reactions we were giving. My fiance and I were both able to say yes to dresses here and are incredibly excited to go in for our first fittings soon.

Attached photos are only of dresses we didn't pick to avoid family trying to peek ahead of time, but it was really hard to say yes to only one dress here.