My friend got engaged last March, and she was supposed to get married in July. Her sister had been married a year before and had purchased her wedding gown and bridesmaid dresses from David's Bridal. I was told that for her sister's wedding, they did not make an appointment, and when they went into the store, the "consultants" would not help her because she had no appointment.

When my friend took us to DB to look at bridesmaid dresses, she made an appointment so that we wouldn't be turned away. The "consultants" still would not help us. We took it upon ourselves to try on dresses and figure out our sizes. It wasn't until it was time to order and pay for the dresses that someone took an interest in us.

When I got engaged and started planning my wedding, I stopped into DB with a few of my bridesmaids, just hoping to get an idea of what I wanted. I had no intentions of ordering or buying anything from that store that day.

We did not make an appointment, but the store wasn't busy, so a consultant made me sit down and fill out all of the infromation on their little forms. I was given a catalog and was told to look through it to see if there were any dresses that I liked, and they would go find all the ones I wanted to try on.

When I found one I liked a little, I made a comment to a friend, and the consultant took this to mean that I wanted to buy the gown. When I explained that I was just looking and that I was in no way ready to order yet, the lady suddenly changed her manner and tried to push us out the door as fast as she could. She did make sure to tell me that I better make an appointment when I come back to buy the gown because on the weekends, there can be as many as 300 people in there at a time. I'm sure there is.

(By the way, the dress I tried on was a size 14, and it was tight and not flattering to me, really. The lighting in the dressing room was terrible, and when I got out of there, I felt awful about the way I looked. Their dresses must run small because the one I ended up buying at another store was a 14, and it is big on me.)

I have received phone calls, reminding me that my wedding is coming up in December (duh), and that I need to order my gown and bridesmaid dresses soon. They are as nice as can be until I say that I have already ordered my dresses, and then they become rude. I have also received phone calls from Mens Warehouse, and I have given them no phone number.

We had to go into DB one day not too long ago to look for a Junior Bridesmaid dress, and I had my mother tell the people that we were actually friends of the bride so we could avoid as much grief as possible. It worked!