Did you get a glass of fizz when you purchased your wedding dress?

[LizardBreath]

Just that really.

You see on tv all the time women trying on wedding dresses being offered a glass of champagne. This never happened to me! I tried on 100s of dresses (bought the first one I tried on though but you have to be sure ) and never got close to being offered one. Tried on high end and low end, shops that you had to place a deposit to book an appointment and shops you could just rock up to. Had an appointment at a swanky one last thing on a Saturday, prime for champagne (it was the one I bought from in the end) and still didn't get offered!

Have any of you? Just being nosey really.

[Dozer]

It's probably for the telly?

[RaeSkywalker]

Not for my dress, but I went with a friend when she chose hers and we all got a glass of fizz then

[Whatatado]

No. Not even when I spent nearly £6k on my dress.

Offered a glass of wine at one boutique, but that was all.

[Nicnak2223]

I got one at a second visit to a store, I didn't buy a dress there though

[cloudysun]

I bought mine in a sample sale at a mid-high end shop. I took 7 people with me, we all got offered a glass of pink fizz when I found the one. I declined mine as I'd had a heavy session the night before. I thought it was normal but i wouldn't have expected it at the outlet place I was planning to visit next. I think you missed out on the "celebration" but apparently the fizz was warm and not very nice.

[MarriedinMaui]

Wow, a deposit for an appointment? Was that lost if you decided not to buy from them?

I didn't get any fizz. I couldn't get over how unhelpful and unwelcoming some of the posh north London shops I tried were. Things like "oh you've only got time to try 4 dresses on" even when I'd made an appointment and been on time. I brought it from a much more friendly, sensible shop in the end.

[LolBeansandSalad]

No.

But then I did buy it online

[Lweji]

Mine was too cheap for that. :)

Do you only have to try or do you have to buy? thinks where to go next time I feel like just a glass of bubbly

[ShatnersBassoon]

No, I had a mug of tea. A friend made my dress.

[originalusernamefail]

I was offered tea + biscuits during the trying on session, and everyone with me got a glass of champers once I'd made. My choice and it was official. Yorkshire hospitality it seems!

[RustyPaperclip]

No, but I did get an unexpected discount due to drama in the wedding dress shop. I felt so bad for the staff that I tried to turn down the discount!

[CarlGrimesMissingEye]

Yes I did. Several. It was a ridiculously hot day so loads of people cancelled but I still went as I'd travelled to be there. I had a few glasses

[onemouseplace]

Not a single glass - massive disappointment!

The worst place for snottiness for me was HOF bridal department on Oxford Street. It was the first place I tried and, although I had an idea of what I wanted, I did want to try on a variety of styles just in case something I wasn't expecting to looked amazing. Only the assistant would only let me try on 3 dresses that exactly fitted my original brief. They lost out though, I did actually try the dress I eventually bought on there, but got it from a much nicer (and cheaper) shop I visited later in the day.

[ICanTuckMyBoobsInMyPockets]

I went to 5 shops, varying price ranges and we got fizz in 4 of them.

All my friends did too, I thought it was more common than not.

[treaclesoda]

I didn't even get a private trying on session, much less a glass of fizz. It was the only wedding dress shop within 30 miles of where I live, and it was just like going into Top Shop on a Saturday afternoon. Tried to make appointment in a couple of other, more upmarket, places in the nearest city and they refused to see me because there was less than a year to my wedding. But there was also less than a year from my engagement to my wedding, so it would have been pretty weird to have been dress hunting before that.

[LizardBreath]

Im glad it wasn't just me that missed out! But I am pleased it's not a complete myth.

I should have said, we did get offered 'normal' drinks, just never the good stuff - in hindsight it's probably a good thing, as I would definitely have got carried away!

marriedinmau no, it was just if you didn't keep the appointment I think. In one where I had to pay a deposit though, I was sharing the space with another woman trying on, really poor I thought.

[LizardBreath]

What area was that icantuck? literally the opposite to me- none of my friends got offered either, between us id say we've covered 50 shops!

[CointreauVersial]

Seeing as I bought it in a high street store - no, I didn't.

Made up for it on the day.

[SansaClegane]

Yes, I did! My friend/bridesmaid and MIL were offered a glass as well. That said, I didn't actually end up buying from that shop but they made me feel very special indeed.
I don't remember if they offered any in the shop where I did buy the dress, I seem to have a vague memory they did, but not sure!
Almost exactly 8 years ago now can you guess the date?!

[IJustAteTheKidsFoodAgain]

No, not even when I bartered for the price. No idea why I did it, I never had a budget and my DM was paying anyway.

[HairsprayQueen]

No, I did get an über religious poem about the sanctity of marriage in a frame when I picked up my dress though

[KittyKrap]

I got a glass of champagne buying the wedding ring, his came from a different shop so I had two. Then I had to pick mine up and got another

Got one shopping in Chanel (posh me...) and another in Gucci, there's wasn't as naice

[ICanTuckMyBoobsInMyPockets]

I'm in Leeds /WYorkshire.

I bet I could name 20 shops I know people have been to and they all had cheap fizz/Prosecco when trying on.

[Heathcliff27]

No fizz when buying wedding dress but did get given a small drawstring bag with a wedding day yankee candle in it on the day i collected it from the shop.

On the other hand, when DH and I got into the wedding car after the service the chauffeur produced 2 champagne flutes and 2 mini bottles of fizz and poured them for us

[shggg245]

Yes I booked appointments with 3 shops and had booze in all 3 - was totally pissed by the final shop as was my mum and best friend.