2dBride's reviews

We ended up going there three times. The first issue was that you need an appointment to visit, even mid-day on a weekday. When we tried just stopping in, we were not permitted to try on anything until a sales consultant was available. After about 45 minutes, we still had not managed to get a sales consultant, and walked out.

The second problem is that if you do make an appointment, your name will be added to the mailing/phone list of every wedding vendor for miles around. We were having a budget wedding, and the last thing we needed was to be contacted by a bunch of overpriced vendors.

I could have dealt with the need to make an appointment if the sales consultant had been genuinely helpful once we made an appointment. However, we never found one that was. Instead, they would hand us a catalog, with no prices indicated, and ask which dresses or veils we wanted to try on. If I could tell from a picture in a catalog what would look good on me, I could buy a dress from the Internet--and at least that way, I would know the price first! For us, the major point of going to a brick and mortar store was to have a consultant who could give us advice on what would look good on us, and/or to be able to look at dresses in person instead of trying to pick one out from a picture. Neither of these things happened. Indeed, when we went to look at veils, the consultant could not come up with anything in the store for us to look at, and suggested that we just order one from the catalog.

As for the $99 dress sale, that seems to be an excuse to get you into the store so you will buy a dress that costs much more. There is nowhere--online or in the catalog--to determine before you get there which dresses are covered by the sale. And once you get there, they will steer you away from those dresses, anyway.

Ironically, we ended up buying a David's Bridal dress and a David's Bridal veil--but not from David's Bridal. We found a little consignment shop at which the consultant was genuinely interested and helpful, and pulled out dresses in our sizes that worked well with our body types.

I gave them a 2-star rating only because they were not actively hostile or rude. However, as a place to find a dress or veil, it was a complete failure.

We ordered 120" round tablecloths from this vendor. They came promptly, and were of good quality.

Wide selection of lighting and gels for DIY uplighting, at low prices.

For DIY uplighting, this is the place to go. They have spotlights in all sizes, plus gels to get the color you want. The prices were consistently lower than any other seller. We got four PAR56 spotlights, plus four PAR36 pinspots, plus bulbs from them. All were of good quality, and arrived promptly.

We bought chair covers, tablecloths, napkins, and napkin holders from LinenTableCloth.com. They consistently had the lowest prices available, to the point that it was often cheaper than renting, even without considering the possible resale. They had good quality linens available in a good selection of colors and sizes, and shipping was prompt.

We got 80 gold sashes from this vendor, which we used on the chairs at both our ceremony and reception, and also used as table runners on the table under the chuppah at the ceremony, and on the cake table at the reception. We also sewed some of the sashes into our chuppah and used them as decoration for the legs of the chuppah. The sashes were of good quality and came promptly. The only issue we had was that the inventory seems to change a lot. When we wanted to buy more sashes, it was months until they were again in stock.

We ordered tablecloths from Efavormart. They were of good quality, and delivered promptly without issues.

We bought their rose petals months ahead of time. However, they retained their color and scent until the wedding, when we followed the instructions to keep them in a dark place. Their prices for freeze-dried rose petals were the lowest we found, and their product really looked good in our centerpieces and on our cake table.

Enid made us a fused glass mezuzah using the shards of broken glass from our wedding. Although she sells fused glass mezuzot, this was the first time she had tried one made out of shards, but she did a beautiful job!

Hilda Brady did the custom framing for our ketubah. When we brought the ketubah in, we had very little idea of what kind of frame we wanted. She suggested colors that would work with it. We ended up with a gorgeous frame with blue suede matting, and gold fillet, which perfectly set off the colors of our ketubah.