what to expect at your bridal appointment
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This experience is so much more than your incredible dress. Every person on this page is a real bride.
See for yourself how the experience makes the difference.
Booking
From the moment you book your appointment, we are busy preparing for you! A stylist will reach out to you within 48 hours to connect about how you’re feeling about dress shopping and what to expect.
Your Appointment
You get to walk up our stairs to the bright white rooms of wedding dresses. Panoramic windows line all sides of our shop, letting natural light pour in so you actually know what your dress will look like at your wedding. Overlooking downtown Bend, you and your most important people get to browse around the shop, and touch and feel the dresses.
Our stylists are knowledgeable and fun, but most importantly, down-to-earth. We are not snooty fashion people, and we pride ourselves on that! This process should be easy and fun, not scary and nerve-racking. We are here to lead you through what seems like a big purchase, but turns out to be a life moment.
As you try on dresses, your stylist will clamp the dresses to show the perfect fit of each wedding dress. As you learn what you like and don’t like, your stylist will evolve your collection until you have a handful of favorites.
Your stylist will have you try on your favorites back-to-back, maybe add a veil, earrings, or a hairpiece, until you know. It’s that gut feeling—you will just feel a connection to one dress. You will feel like you have never looked more beautiful than you feel in this dress. Whether you are a crier or you simply feel AMAZING in your dress, that gut feeling is how you know.
After you find your girl
Once you say yes, your stylist will walk you through measuring, sizing, and ordering. If you’re lucky (or if you have a short time frame), you could even take your dress home with you that day!
Special order dresses can take up to 6 months to come in. But don’t worry, we text you a dress update every month on how your girl is doing in production.
When your dress arrives, you will come back in to try her on! This is your chance to complete your look with veils, jewelry, and hairpieces—your stylist will have a custom accessories collection waiting for you. We will also talk time frames and recommendations for alterations. Because we have so many brides that travel to see us, we do not have alterations in-house, but don’t worry, we definitely have recommendations for you.
Your stylist will then help you with the final logistics of your dress. We will make a plan for steaming your wedding dress the week of your wedding, and make a plan for cleaning + preserving it afterwards.
After your wedding
Now that you are officially a Bella Bride, you are invited to our Dress Encore event— every September, we host a barhop through downtown Bend where everyone wears their wedding dresses AGAIN. It is an absolutely phenomenal time, and we are beyond proud of it! So keep your eye on our socials for the details!
Because we care deeply about each and every bride, we would be so honored to add your wedding photo to our bride wall in our entry way and brag about you on social media. You can email your wedding gallery to us, and you will forever be a part of our shop!
Promise, this is easy and fun
The bottom line is that we actually care about our brides. We are real people—not instagram barbies, or snooty fashion people—who care about your love story, about your wedding vision, about your life in general!
Our mission is that you feel that. You feel like the most beautiful you that you could ever be, and that you are ready to marry the person you love and start the rest of your life.
Cheers!
Your Bella Team