Running a Bridal Shop
Posted: Monday, December 29, 2008
by Susan James
Princesssparkle.co.uk
Our bridal shop was doing well and we were very busy. Our experience with mothers was not good. They would come into the shop and plonk themselves down on the sofa and glare at me and the staff. "Would you like a cup of tea or coffee"? This question always threw the unpleasant mothers. How could they continue to be foul when we were being so delightful to them. What a dilemma for them! Some of them became friendly while others refused the drink and stared stonily ahead.
One poor bride to be tried on several dresses while her mother sat commenting rudely on each dress. "You look like a yard of dishwater in that" was one comment. "You might be flat chested but that dress makes you look hollow" was another charming comment. How I felt for that poor girl. She was very thin and had absolutely no self confidence. Little wonder with a mother like hers. Her face was crimson with embarrassment and I longed to ask the mother to leave. While she was trying on a dress her father and fianc joined the mother and, while they were not so derogatory in their comments, the fianc agreed with the mother that nothing made her look nice.
"You look lovely" I whispered to her in the changing room as she tried on yet another dress. She blushed an even darker red. I wanted to tall her "don't marry him". Talk about going from the drying pan into the fire.
After trying on a few dresses the mother decided that we had nothing that would make her daughter look nice. "We'll go to xxxxxx she said, naming another shop in the next town. I wasn't sorry to lose that sale because I could imagine how the fitting would go with the mother finding every fault possible but I did wonder if that poor girl ever found a dress her mother would let her buy. I also wondered what sort of a life she would have with her horrible fiance.
Another bride to be arrived on a busy Saturday with five companions, mother and four bridesmaids. .Each dress she tried on was liked by one of the bridesmaids and castigated by the other three and the mother. If one person likes a dress the others didn't. If the brides said she really liked the dress she was wearing at least two of her companions would say "Oh No. That's horrible".
She was getting very confused and upset, almost in tears, so when she was taking off the last dress I whispered quietly, "If you want to come again I suggest you only bring a couple of friends because they are confusing you". She turned to me and snapped "They are my friends and I value their opinions." I held up my hands in surrender and left the changing room. She didn't return to the shop so we wasted nearly three hours on a busy Saturday because of her horrible friends. Such is the bridal business as we soon learned.
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