Wedding Dress?

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Where are the best places around to shop for a wedding dress? (The relevant tag seems mostly concerned with alterations.)

Um, particularly if one is not of the type who has thought about such things all their life (or, y'know, ever) and thus had no idea how far in advance people expect you to plan and so the event is a little over a month away leaving no time for the apparently usual 2-3 month wait. (Speaking entirely theoretically, of course, because no reasonable person would be in such a situation, right?)

Even better would be great places to rent a dress, because it seems absurd to buy one when I'll only need it the once. (Why is it so much easier to rent a tuxedo, an item whose owner could reasonably wear it time and again?)

Comments

[contradictacat.livejournal.com]

Again, my experience has only been with bridesmaid dresses where unless they have the size and color they want, you'll have to wait while they order it, but the impression I got is that you can walk in and buy it if you want. You might want to call to make sure, but I think that's how it works- the friend whose wedding I was in ended up just walking in and buying her dress after finding it. She had to have it altered, which took a while, but if it fits, I think you could just walk out with it same day.

Yeah, David's Bridal is kind of mass-market wedding stuff, but damn if they don't have their shit together to get stuff done.