Dropping the Butterfly out of Madame Butterfly Bridal to fool you

Yes, the Madame Butterfly changed its name to Madame Butterfly Bridal now is just known as Madame Bridal is the same direct from China outlet center in the Boynton Beach Mall. 801 N Congress Ave, #853, Boynton Beach, FL 33426. Yes the #853 is the bay number in the mall located in the rough part of town and yes, it is the same mall where the Boyntom Beach Mall shooting took place just last year. Don't be so concerned about gettin shot at this mall, be worried of the Orange Julius stains on your dress.

This place decided to change its name and upgraded it image again, by blowing out all bad reviews with a name change, to attract new suckers, I mean brides. They did not change their store image. All of their dresses come in boxes direct from China. This is because all of the dresses are fakes. Yes, I said it, FAKES. As far as the public can tell, they look as good as the real thing. The only difference is that the labels inside are missing. That is because you dont get them with fakes.

So best of luck to you if you order from the new Madame dot com website. Hope you enjoy that fake. Oh yes, do not expect a return or your money back. You payed for what you got. No need to bitch about it on your wedding day.

RK Bridal lies about the knockoff Twilight Bella Alfred Angelo wedding gown

RK Bridal makes up a story to help promote sales. Alfred Angelo can make as many knockoff Bella Twilight wedding gowns as needed since they come from China and I have not heard of a polyesther shortage. Also, those who are looking for this dress are not serious buyers since they are only 13 years old, but RKBridal would have you belive different. See the below puff piece that RK Bridal has a hand in. Its just a farce.

Twihards are storming bridal boutiques everywhere — just to try on Bella Swan’s gorgeous wedding dress.

The lace-backed gown mirrors the one Carolina Herrera designed for Kristen Stewart to wear during the wedding scene in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1. But the $799 Alfred Angelo replica is causing quite a headache for some bridal consultants.

“We’ve had a ridiculous amount of people calling about the dress,” a rep for R.K. Bridal Boutique in New York City told Celebuzz. “If everyone who has called actually buys the dress, it will be sold out in no time. People are setting up appointments just to try on this dress — and it hasn’t even arrived in most stores yet.”

Priscilla of Boston Closes After 65 Years - Why David's Bridal will be the only place to shop.

David's Bridal has announced that they are shutting down their Priscilla of Boston labels (which include wedding dresses and bridesmaid dresses by Priscilla of Boston, Platinum for Priscilla of Boston, Melissa Sweet, Reverie, Jewel and Vineyard Collection) on December 31, 2011.

This is no supprise to all of us in the bridal industry. You just can't take a wonderful brand like Priscilla of Boston and junk it with David's Bridal quality dresses. It has been known that David's Bridal has been making the gowns our of their factories once it was purchased back in 2002. It does not take long to crap out a line in the bridal world. This will also happen to the name Vera Wang. We have heard that she actually has some input into the line, but Vera, take my advice, stay far away or the giant will drag you name into the mud. Vera has followed all the sellouts as time goes, and eventually Vera Wang will be thought of as an el-cheapo brand like Martha Stuart. At least the Olsen twins started at the bottom.

The other thing I see that killed the Priscilla of Boston stores is what is killing the smaller boutiques. Brides today are demanding the lower prices as they see advertised online. This has been a killer for the industry in the past few years driving the slower to react stores right out of business. David's Bridal is smart here consolidating their brands to their own stores and not chasing after the elite bride. If the market continues in this fashion and brides continue to drive down prices, the only place to shop will be David's Bridal.

Do not trust WeddingWire.com reviews!!

I have found a new blog that I recommend to all my wedding vendor friends. It is called The Wedding Wire Scam and it is located at

http://weddingwirescam.blogspot.com/

http://weddingwirescam.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

Here is a repost from http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/do-not-trust-weddingwirecom-reviews that I will post on the Wedding Wire Scam page.

To all my Brides out there, do not believe a review that has been payed for. Here is an example below:

I found my cake baker on weddingwire.com and he had all good reviews - and now I know why.

I was very excited about working with Renee of Fatty Patty's. My mother and I went for a tasting and she had forgotten we were coming. It wasn't too big a deal since she always keeps some tasting cakes and icings around. They tasted amazing. I had looked at her website and knew she could create just about anything and her price was reasonable. I had brought pictures of a bunch of cakes we liked different aspects of (shape of this one, detailing of that one etc). Not too long after, we booked her. I didn't live local, so I left it to my mother and wedding coordinator to iron out the details. Overall, Renee can bake beautiful tasty cakes, but she does not do well at running a business. Dealing with her became a stressful ordeal. The end result being that there had been 1 picture I had given her just to show the ribbon edge and flowers on it, and she made THAT cake exactly. Ignoring that we had talked about a different shaped cake, and that we REALLY didn't like some of the detailing that was on that cake etc. But here it was - that EXACT cake, wrong shape, wrong detailing and all. But it tasted good and my wedding was fun so I just didn't care. If I had to do it over again, I would have saved everyone some communication stress and not gone with her.



That is the exact review I posted on Weddingwire.com since that's where I found her. She disputed it, got it removed, and sent a NASTY email that has my mother in tears. I found out later that she was nasty to my wedding planner on a few occasions going as far as to say "Maybe you should just go to Publix!" If I had known that, I would have.



If you have a picture of the EXACT cake you want - she can probably do it and it'll taste good. Dealing with her, however, left a terrible taste. And now that WeddingWire.com has pulled the review and seems to have no problem with her mean emails to my mother and wedding planner I have to say I am non-to-impressed with them!

Update!

It continues to get worse. She has futhered the nasty emails to my wedding planner and is now harrassing my photographer! I happen to have become good friends with my photographer so when she called upset, it made me livid.

For all Florida Panahandle / Panama City brides - AVOID Renee of Fatty Patty's!!!

For all brides looking for vendors - do NOT trust the reviews on WeddingWire.com!!

Madame Bridal a.k.a. Madame Butterfly is just BAD NEWS

We have seem to found another outfit that is moving bogus and fake wedding gowns. This one is an online store with an actaul retail outlet. My cousin in Cocoa Beach took a drive down to Boynton Beach to check this place out. Come to find out, it is in the Boynton Beach mall and is a foreign owned place. They may be bringing in knockoff gown directly from China and listing them as authentic. I love Allure wedding gowns and decided to check out on http://www.allurebridals.com/ to see if they were an authorized retailer. Guess what? Nope, they are not.

I would stay away from this place like the plague.

Madame Bridal

also known as

Madame Butterfly

801 N. Congress Ave., Suite 853Boynton Beach, FL 33426(561) 736-8588

On another note: It looks like the poser site "One Wed" gave them a review reward back in 2010. What a bunch of whores doing a diservice to all the brides-to-be out there. They will take any advertisers money and post them on their site. I always tell my brides to never believe those bridale rating sites. They are all a bunch of whores.

Let me know what your reviews, comments, complaints or concerns about Madame Butterfly are.

Linda Dresses - Custom made, especially for you.

Well here is another one that is making knockoff dresses. Linda Dresses at least states it in their logo, "Custom made, especially for you" but still illegally rips off the photos from the actual designer websites. This can be misleading to shoppers looking for the original article. We have not heard any complaints yet, except from the Bill Levkoff team themselves when called. I cannot verify if Linda Dresses fakes are as good as the original, but I am sure the colors must be way off the mark as far as matching. You would look pretty stupid with mismatched bridesmaids at your wedding for a $10 savings. Please let me know if you have any bad reviews or complaints about the service of this company or what the product looks like. I can only guess, they do not even exist as a real company. They also show a photo of the interior of a bridal store here in the US and state under the picture that they are from China. In a world of hi-tech solutions to design and production, the importance of the handmade object lies increasingly in its ability to connect us to each other. Welcome to Linda's fashion store, where our goal is to forge that connection as we explore the intimate nature of handmade dresses. Who are LindaDress.com? Linda Wedding dress Co., Ltd. is a professional bridal dress manufacturer located in China.We offer a wide range of elegant wedding dresses,bridesmaid dresses, prom dresses,and flower girl dresses,in different styles. The fabrics we use are Satin, Chiffon, Organza, Tulle, Taffeta, and Georgette, etc. Our customers spread in Europe, North America, British, Japan, Australia and some Middle East countries. We use high quality of imported fabric and particularly like to work with novelty fabric, but put it in a basic shape. This, we believe, helps the piece last. Our main emphasis has been to create Haute Couture (Made-to-measure) clothes with excellent colour schemes and embroidery with fashion embellishments in all their compositions. What is your commitment to me?We are committed to complete customer care. We guarantee that all your dealings with us will be conducted in a fair and professional manner. How can I contact you for further information?Should you have any further questions that are not covered by our privacy policy or as part of our help pages, please contact us: By email using the mail address in Contact Us page. We thank you for visiting our site today and look forward to seeing you here often! Of course they do not have a return policy. Its a bit hard to ship back to China if you have ever tried: What is your return policy? Create On 30,01 2010 Please view our return and refund policy carefully before you place order.1. We do not accept returns for any custom-made dresses.2. We do not accept returns for size not match, we measure each dress according to your order before we send it out.3. We do have 3 days money back guarantee for standard size order, if you are not satisfy with the quality.4. For the refund,please kindly note that you should pay US$35 of re-stocking fee for each dress. Also shipping/handling/insurance charges are not refundable. For free shipping dresses, You need to pay $20 for us as sen shipping fee. So for a free shipping dress, you will need to pay us $55 if you want to return the dress.5. Bidder/buyer should pay the return shipping fee. 6. Items must be in original shipped condition, unworn, unaltered, and have all original packaging.7. Once we authorize your return, we will give you an ARN (Authorized Return Number). Please write the ARN on the outside of the shipping box. 8. Refund only after we get the tracking number of the return package and verify it in the tracking url you offered. 9. No exchange to another size because you are required to MEASURE YOURSELF with a TAPE MEASURE before you order. Please provide your measurements and special require by our measurements guide exactly, that's very important. SCAM

Dress Times at dresstimes.com is yeat another Chinese knockoff joint online

They keep poping up like rabbits. These Chinese knockoff joints are all over the web trying to steel your hard earned cash. What makes them so scary is that they actually use the designers copyrighted pictures so you think that is what you are getting. When you get your package in the mail and it looks nothing like the picture, what do you do so close to your wedding? Run out to David's Bridal and grab a cheap Vera Wang. Yes I said cheap Vera Wang, since she is now whoring out her name to the johns of David's Bridal. "Look like every other poser in a Vera Wang" should be their advertisement, but I digress. Do not buy from these clowns called Dress Times as you will be dissapointed beyond your wildest dreams. And don't even bother trying to locate them for a refund. The "Help Zone" is a poorly generic online form with no phone number to call. The email is actually a gmail account to some fake name in China. For fun, go on to the live chat which seems to only be open late at night. Check out how bad the english is. I do give them credit in trying, but who are they really fooling?

Sharon Bridal sells FAKE dresses

Ladies I am here today to answer the age old saying, "If it is too good to be true, its not" and Sharon Bridal at http://www.sharonbridal.com/ is a such a beast. This website is claiming to sell authentic designer dresses at discount prices, but fails to tell you that they are knockoffs. The biggest give away is that they are using a Gmail account and a live chat as the only form of contact. This company really went the extra mile in setting up a very good looking website with photographs from another brick and mortar bridal store. The pictures are from a featured store in Brides magazine or the Knot, as I have seen it before. I will get back with you as soon as I find out what the exact store name is since I have around 10 years of Brides and 6+ years of the Knot to go through. All of the photographs on this website are from the official designers which are copyrighted and protected from use. We are currently getting in contact with Faviana, Flirt, La-Femme, Mori Lee, Maggie Sottero, Midgley, Bonny Bridal, Casablanca, Allure Bridals, Impression Bridal, La Sposa, Pronovias, Venus, and any other brand they have stolen pictures from. Don't screw with Maggie Sottero, they will sue the crap out of this bogus company for ripping off their styles. So if you happen to come accross this site, run, do not walk to get away from these ass clowns. They will ruin your wonderful wedding by selling you a problematic bogus fake knockoff. We will list complaints, review and any problems as we get them from customers or the better business bureau, BBB, or even ripoff report and wedding wire.

Netbride going out of business aka Rush's Bridal

We have been notified by some angry brides that wedding gowns and bridesmaid dresses are not being delivered by Netbride.com which is a subsiderary of Rush's Bridal out of Minneapolis, MN.

After further investigaion from our team, we have found that the company is suffering due to the economy and is having troubles paying its distributors.

The website is still up at www.netbride.com and they are continuing to take orders, but good luck if you actually need the dress. If you happen to go by the place at the Nicollet Mall, give me a shout and let me know if the lights are on. I called the speak to David Rush and they just hung the phone up on me.

Not to beat a dead horse, but you take your chances when you buy from these online deadbeats who pose as bridal stores. This place is known for sending out dirty floor model dresses as new. Its like buying a floor model mattress or wearing used underwear. Just nasty.

Of course Netbride has a A+ rating on the BBB, but money can buy anything. Same thing with the 2010 pick from the Knot. Every bridal store that advertises in the knot get a "best of weddings". The Knot, another whore organization.

But in a retail store. If you have to buy online, get it from houseofbrides.com

Bridal store and wedding dress complaints will go unanswered since the BBB, Better Business Bureau is a SCAM.

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The Better Business Bureau, known most commonly as the BBB, enacted a rating system in 2009 and 2010 that they use to grade companies. On November 12, 2010, ABC News exposed a tendency by the BBB to reward members with better ratings, a pattern long observed by many businesses across the country. ABC News characterizes the sham as a “pay-for-play scheme.” As many who have been on the negative side of a BBB complaint and choose not to pay the BBB can attest, what the Better Business Bureau is doing is closer to extortion, as clearly shown in an ABC News report.

As stated on the BBB website, “Ratings are determined by a proprietary formula that represents BBB’s opinion as to (1) the importance of each category, and (2) the appropriate score given to the business for each category.”

BBB assigns grades from A to F with pluses and minuses. A+ is the highest grade and F is the lowest. The grade represents BBB’s opinion about the business based on complaints filed with the BBB, regardless of whether the complaint came from an actual customer and apparently regardless of complaint resolution or percentage of complaints to total customers.