Four things happen here: you come and try gowns, we order or sell you one, our workroom alters it, and twice a year we clear the samples. There is nothing else on the price list.
No packages, no upgrades, no VIP hour. The appointment is the appointment, and the alterations are quoted when we know what the gown needs.
Ninety minutes, one bride and up to three guests, with gowns from £950 to £2,800. The rail is pulled before you arrive from what you tell us on the form — shape, cloth, budget, and the thing you have already decided you hate.
Hems, bustles and fitting in our own workroom at the back, over two to three fittings. Straps, cups and side seams too, quoted once the gown is on you.
Accessories. Veils, belts, capes and shoes, tried alongside the gown rather than sold after it.
Twice a year, past-season gowns at reduced prices, by appointment — the same ninety minutes, the same room, a shorter rail and a quicker decision.
The honest answer depends on how the gown is made. A cut-to-order gown needs four to six months at the house, and the workroom wants eight to ten weeks after that. Work back from the wedding and you get this.
12 months or more
Comfortable. Everything on the rail is open to you, including the houses that drape on the stand and take the longest. No decision has to be made quickly.
9 to 12 months
The window most brides book in. Order by month nine and nothing is rushed — the gown arrives with a clear two months in hand for fittings.
6 to 9 months
Still fine. One or two houses will be too slow by then, and we say which at the start rather than let you fall for a gown that cannot arrive in time.
Under 6 months
Tell us when you book. We pull from what can be bought off the rail the same afternoon, and the workroom plans backwards from your date.
Almost every gown needs work: a hem to your shoes, a bustle so the train can be lifted, straps shortened, cups fitted. That is normal, and it is where a gown stops being a sample and starts being yours.
We quote once the gown is on you and we can see what it needs. Fittings are booked as a set when the gown comes in, and they run to this shape.
Bring the shoes to every fitting, and the same underwear each time. A hem pinned over trainers is a hem pinned twice.
When a house sends next season's cuts, last season's samples come off the rail. They are sold as seen, in the size they were made in, at a reduced price — and they still get the full ninety minutes and the same workroom afterwards.
Send the wedding date, a rough budget and anything you already know you want. We will come back with times and have the rail ready.