I LOVED having my reception at Harrah's!!!! Rebecca Gleason, the wedding coordinator was my total angel and lifesaver through the whole process. We did a breakfast buffet for our food, and offered beer, wine, and mimosas and bloody mary's for drinks. Everyone loved the food and the room was great also. It was awesome to be able to have our guests stay in the same location as the reception, and they all loved being close to the casino! I have nothing bad to say about Harrah's. :)

I got my alterations on my gown done here, due to what great reviews they were given. Boy was I disappointed!! They had to take in my gown, about 2 inches at the waist and in inch at the bust. They took all the excess in at the back of the gown, which resulted in the seams being all wonky and many weird bumps and ridges in the dress. I used to work at a dressmakers shop in Dallas, and we would have NEVER given a gown to a bride in the condition they gave me mine. Both hook & eyes on the back fell off after I took it home (how hard is it to sew on a hook and eye??) So I had to take those off, fix them, and also took off and fixed the hook & Eyes on my bustle because i knew those would fall off as well. I also had to add some boning into the gown, to fix the weird bumps, which is exactly what I suggested that they should do, and they told me it was impossible. I was going to do my alterations myself, and I wish I would have - it would have saved me $450 and actually SAVED me time because I spent so much time fixing it and stressing over it. There was one REALLY nice girl, whose name I cant remember, but she is blonde and a little bit short, and really sweet. She was the best thing this store has going for it! The other girls just told me I was being to "perfectionist" about my dress and it looked "fine". I will upload pictures and you can see how terrible my dress looked. I would have never walked down the aisle in the condition it was in, and if I didn't know how to sew, I would have probably had a panic attack on my wedding day because all of my bustle would have fallen out and I wouldn't have been able to get in the dress because the hook and eyes would have fallen off.

I would absolutely never suggest Gown Gallery to anyone I know. I bought my dress here simply because it was the only shop in Kansas City who carried it and I was on a tight timeline. They told me my gown would be in about 8-12 weeks, and it actually was almost 4 months, which made it VERY difficult to get my alterations done in time. I understand that sometimes things take longer than expected, but they didn't call me to let me know about the change in timeline, I had to call them repeatedly to find out when it was coming. Anytime I wanted any information from them, it was very hard to get, and Gwen (who helped us when I went in to buy it) was very flighty and kept calling my dad "Jim" when his name is Steve and we told her this multiple times. Also when she wrote up the invoice, it took us many tries to get it right (price, color, size). Good thing we read over it before we just signed it and walked out or I would have ended up with the wrong dress, 4 months later, too late to change anything. Overall, a very stressful experience, but I'm glad I finally got my dress. I probably would have driven to Topeka or something to get it, if I had known this was going to be the result of picking Gown Gallery.

I came and tried on dresses here - Maryanne helped me and was really nice and sweet. I didn't end up getting my dress here but my bridesmaids are getting theirs here, and they all love them. The new 2010 BM collections are great. We are using the cotton sateen dresses in Pewter, and they have pockets, which my BMS love.

I have gotten tons of great reviews about this dressmaker, and will be using her to personally create my dream wedding gown. She also does alterations, and flower girl dresses, and mother of the bride/groom dresses & alterations on all of the above, if you have purchased them elsewhere!!.

The dresses I have seen that she has made are simply exquisite!

She also creates monogrammed totes and bridal party gifts.