Hi Everybody 
The whole finding my dream dress has been more stressful than I imagined it would be! My own fault naturally but I wanted it to be right. I quickly became certain of Maggie Sottero and I tried on a dress that I loved but wanted to make a few changes to it. On reflection once i'd left the shop, i'd realised that the changes I wanted to make meant that dress wasn't for me! I managed to find a dress on their website that incorporated what I loved about the first dress but also the changes I had in mind and rung round to see if I can find it to try it on! It was new collection so I did struggle but I'd got in touch with a boutique in Leeds that had said they had it in. I arranged an appointment to go, got there, and they didn't have it 
I then spoke to a boutique in Wakefield who had managed to source the dress and went to try it. It was the ONE!! I left to think about whether I wanted nude/ivory illusion and in the meantime, received a notification via instagram from the boutique in Leeds to say i'd won their £400 voucher off any gown in their store! This to any bride, is music to their ears! So I rebooked an appointment at the Leeds one and they now had the dress in and decided to go ahead.
HOWEVER .. Once my measurements etc. had been taken and I had paid, it had suddenly crossed my mind that I didn't recall the dress in the Wakefield boutique being as expensive as it was in Leeds. I called Wakefield and the dress was £1565 but in Leeds it was £1879!!
I called the Leeds boutique to query this and she said she would check and call me back which she did and explained Maggie Sottero set a price and then the boutiques factor in the postal code and charge accordingly so perhaps the Wakefield shop was undercutting the price the designer had set??
I would be okay with this if we were talking a small difference but it's £314. Including my alterations, with the £400 voucher i'd won, I'm actually no better off??
They have offered me £100 off the alterations to soften the blow but doesn't take away from the considerable difference between the 2 shops selling the same dress??
Competition aside, has anyone else heard of this or know this to be the case?
