Bride Bria Langer wears an example of an Amsale wedding gown that can be customized and ordered online at Amsale x You. The e-commerce site offers luxury wedding gowns for brides who want to skip a bricks-and-mortar visit and all the cultural baggage that goes with it.
Gathered around a conference table in the brand’s headquarters in New York’s Garment District, he and the Amsale team were explaining their next steps. One wall was covered in a hodgepodge of sticky notes, each one marked with a nugget from a brainstorming session about what brides want and when they want it.
A bride can select her dress’s bodice and skirt and add a wisp of a belt. She can pick from size 0 to 24, mixing and matching different-size tops and bottoms for an optimum fit. It won’t matter if a customer chooses tulle or silk faille, long sleeves or strapless — the cost is a flat fee of $5,000, which counts as a bargain in Designerville, since custom gowns ordered through Amsale’s Madison Avenue salon would start at around $10,000. The dress is made-to-order and shipped out in four weeks.
Amsale would not be the first to offer custom-made gowns online, but it would be at the top of the price range and offer a singular design point of view. At the website Anomalie, a team of designers helps shoppers through a months-long process that offers wide aesthetic latitude and a liberal return policy, and the site advertises that most dresses cost $1,000 to $1,500. Others offering such services include Bluethread and a host of Etsy entrepreneurs.
Brides can mix and match bodices and skirts to create the dress of their choosing — within the tasteful boundaries of the Amsale aesthetic. The flat fee is $5,000. Dresses are delivered in four weeks. The seed for the Amsale brand was planted more than 30 years ago. Aberra, a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology, sketched her own wedding dress in 1985 as a matter of necessity.
My daughter recently married. We shopped at 3 bridal salons. The avg. price for the gown she wanted was $3K (with an ADDITIONAL $300-$700 for alterations!). She found the silhouette she liked & we bought second-hand from a website & paid $600. Big savings for a dress worn once.
At first, the picture looked like it was someone in a hospital bed
Sentence 2 is wholly unnecessary, but thanks bruh. I mean, oh my god, MY WEDDING IS ALL I HAVE TO LIVE FOR NOOOOOOO.
I would expect you would have to be in it before you knew if you could survive its vagaries. Going to the store and taking a few twirls could be useful.
No fun in online shopping for the wedding.
Name 4 things you will not stop for on line- Bras, shoes, cars & dress for important occassion.
Except getting a dress already involves multiple alterations and fittings 🙄 Buying regular dresses online is pretty dodgy, I feel like ordering a wedding dress online is the quickest way to set that whole aura of disappointment over the whole event lol
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