Your Bridal Appointment Start-to-Finish
A guide to the full Bella Brides experience
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, what to expect, and logistics.
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 people get to browse 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 or bridal scarf; or maybe you want to go back and forth, back and forth, between a couple dresses. Whatever your process, it’s that gut feeling you listen to—you will just keep thinking about one dress. You will feel like never want to take it off. Whether you are a crier or you simply feel AMAZING in your dress, that voice in the back of your head, that little feeling in your gut, is how you know.
After you find your dress
Once you say yes, your stylist will walk you through measuring, sizing, and ordering. We have two ways to shop in our store so that you are covered no matter what the timeline. You can either take a dress directly from our collection off-the-rack, or you can special order your dress if you need a different size or color.
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
When your dress arrives, you will come back in to try her on! This is your chance to complete your look with veils or jewelry. 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
Your dress will be dirty, like really dirty, especially if you got married outside. Don’t worry, this is completely normal, and our cleaning and preservation process will get every speck out. Just pop your dress by any time after your wedding, and we’ll take care of the whole process.
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!