Full Service Bridal Salons

This message is being posted in reply to Tina`s post on the Rena Koh thread regarding someone writing about the bridal industry........ The bridal salon industry has for years been trashed by those who think they got "taken" by a retail bridal salon...I`m sure it will be no different with this new pesron conducting yet another expose......there are dishonest people in every industry and business you deal with ........ How many of you feel you`ve been taken to the cleaners by a car mechanic?
We are in this business because we love it...... It is vey difficult for most small shop owners to pay themselves and feed their family......you may ask why we do it if this is the case -- sometimes I wonder, but then we help a bride find the dress she`s dreamt off all her life.....see that light in her eyes and it`s enough to keep us going. I want all of you who read this post to consider just how much of a markup you paid for your engagement ring.....or the furniture you will be putting in your new home ----- it is far more than on the wedding gown you have purchased. Those of us who are truly here to help you will be around as long as you, the consumer,support us and all of our efforts to do so. We are here because we love it -- not to make a ton of money.......if that were the case there would be no independant full service bridal shops.