I've been looking for dresses, trying to get an idea of what kinda I'm looking for. My dream dress is an A-line, long sleeves, sweetheart illusion neckline dress, and I found it on the ieiebridal website: https://www.ieiebridal.com/ (granted, when you search for it under A-line, it also falls under ballgown). Our budget is already tight as is (though my cap is 1500, that's also with alterations included), but the listing price is around 650, and that's just perfect. My dream dress while in a price range I can afford! It's perfect!
Problem is, I've never really TRIED on any dresses yet. I still want to go try on some dresses, one to get accurate measurements, and two to see if I can find a dress SIMILAR to the one on the website and if I find it and it looks how I'm dreaming of, then I might just get it from the website. And I've been searching other store websites to see if I can find to try on in-store a dress similar to the one on ieie's, but nothing comes close to it, and all I can think of is, 'But it's not MY dress"
Problem is, I have had different advice from friends that I shouldn't be sold on a dress just from looking on a website without trying on other dresses first and ordering it from the store other than online. I understand that I too am worried about ordering any dresses online after hearing/watching too many Wish wedding dresses horror stories to fill my head, but I've done my research and it seems like a great company. I've read a lot of reviews on their website and they all seem great.
So my question is, has anyone ever bought a dress from ieiebridal.com website? How was their customer service? Was the dress of great quality? Do you recommend them to others? Did you find THE dress from ieie's after trying on others in store?