Trudy's Brides

I just bought my dress from Trudys. I had a great experience with Marika. I am a plus size girl so I was a little uncomfortable walking into a shop with 95% of the dresses being size 6-12, but Marika bought me a ton of dresses to try on. On my second visit, I tried on even more, but still went back to the one I liked best the first time. I even went a 3rd time to show my 2 favorites to some more friends and wound up choosing the dress Marika had chosen for me on the first night.

Today I went back and got measured and ordered my dress. I put 50% deposit down. I cannot wait for it to come in! I highly recommend you try to go during the day on a weekday. It's crazy on the weekends!

Horrible experience. I arrived early for my appointment and the person assigned to me made me wait for 45 mins. while she helped another person. Once it was my turn, I explained to her what I was looking for. Something simple, strapless, off white, and minimal beading. She brought me back dresses that were full of beading. Not what I explained at all. After saying no to dress after dress she told me this store does not have what I want in the $1,200 range. I was looking for something really simple, I have found dresses that were what I described to her at other bridal salons for much less then $1,200. Bad customer service and bad pricing.

I purchased a stunning Pronovias dress and an embroidered veil at Trudy's in January of 2008 before my October 2008 wedding. My dress arrived a week early than the anticipated ship date and the entire process after purchasing my dress went very smoothly and professionally.

I would say the only reason there is one star reduced was the bad experience my mother and I had on our first visit/appointment. I explained my point of view and what I was interested in and unfortunately many of the gowns pulled were really off for my body type/or what I wanted (ie I wanted a white dress not pink or gold etc)
Our consultant was very young and maybe it was because it was the last appointment of the day but she was very abrupt with us and pushy and she also kept pushing my price point (by 2-3times what I said) which was a little annoying.
But my mom was in town for only the weekend and we knew there was many dresses at Trudys that could be the one so we went back the next morning for an appt and what is ironic is that I ended up buying a dress I had tried on the night before but the attitude from the consultant was so off putting I didn't see how great it was--maybe the girl didn't know I was there and there to buy the dress right out.
Oh well, her loss and the fabulous consultant I had's gain!!

The owner by the way is ridiculously sweet and accommodating and had great suggestions.

I would recommend to other bay area brides solely on the expansive selection they had and they did have quite a lot of sample dresses leftover from their blow out sale (its in the Fall!) that were really reasonable just not for me.

They also have a bridesmaid/mother of the bride/cocktail dress area in the adjoining store and me and my friend each found beautiful cocktail dresses off of the rack (normally 350+) and we payed 50!