When should I place my order?

"When should I place my order"? This is a question we hear from customers every day. Many brides have been bridesmaids in other weddings and are used to going to a bridal shop, placing an order, and then waiting several weeks for the dresses to arrive. "The Brides Store" does not operate that way. We only sell what we have hanging on our racks. We keep an extremely large inventory of dresses in our warehouse, so we often have exactly what the customer is looking for in our hanging stock.  And, we usually ship them within a day of taking the order.  However, when we are out of a particular item, we can only suggest a different style or color that we do have hanging.  WE ONLY SELL WHAT WE HAVE HANGING ON THE RACK WHEN THE CUSTOMER CALLS.  When brides call to check stock and say "When should I place my order?", we respond by saying, "If they are here now, we suggest you purchase them, because they may not be here the next time you call". We had a bride call to check the stock of 403 in Black. We had a nice selection, about ten pieces in each size. Because we had a nice selection, the bride decided to call back and order at a later date. About a week later, we sold almost 100 pieces of black 403 to a college choir. When the Bride called back to place the order, we were out of stock on most sizes. Of course when we run out of a style, we immediately try to order more.  However, many times we are not able to get more.  We purchase very large runs of each style we carry.  That is how we can sell the dresses at such low prices.  Many of these purchases are one time purchases from manufacturers that we have contracted with both in the United States and abroad.  When we call to get more, they may no longer have the fabric to produce a particular style.  Therefore, we may no longer be able to get more of that same style.  And if we are able to get more, we never know exactly when we will receive the dresses that are put into production. It often takes three or four months to receive orders from the factories.  We have even had orders from overseas that got lost in shipping that we never received at all. For this reason, we never make promises about when or if we are going to receive items that we are out of. WE ONLY SELL WHAT WE HAVE IN STOCK THE DAY YOU CALL. If we have them in stock, we pull them off the rack and pack them for shipping. If we do not have them in stock, we can only suggest a different size, style, or color. 


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