A potion of Champagne used to be adequate to make a spousal robe selling knowledge special. Today, Bay Area brides pattern some-more than bubbly during a boutique. From dress preference to sales approach, complicated brides wish a selling knowledge as singular as they are. We’ve evaluated a Bay Area spousal marketplace and found a best boutiques for any style, bill and selling predilection.
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Marina Morrison
With scarcely 30 years underneath a glittery belt, Marina Morrison is a San Francisco spousal institution. The full-service spousal salon, located on posh Maiden Lane, is a disdainful Northern California spousal tradesman of high-end designers such as Oscar de la Renta, Carolina Herrera and Marchesa. Brides are invited to try a salon’s expanded gallery of made-to-order gowns during appointments and are upheld post-sale by a group of in-house seamstresses. Prices: $3,000 to $10,000, with many between $3,500 and $6,000.
30 Maiden Lane, San Francisco, (415) 984-9360. www.marinamorrison.com.
And Something Blue
There are no poufy princess dresses during this hipster bliss in Presidio Heights. Something Blue is famous for a particular preference of regretful edging and vintage-inspired gowns by niche designers like San Francisco’s Trish Lee, “Project Runway” alum Carol Hannah and Old Hollywood glorious guru Sarah Janks. The tech-savvy spousal boutique has commissioned Skype on a big-screen TV, so a area’s many transplant brides can embody their families in a appointment. Prices: $1,400 to $4,500, with many between $2,000 and $3,000.
3600 Sacramento St., San Francisco, (415) 409-0217. www.shopandsomethingblue.com.
La Soie Bridal
The fifth plcae of this California spousal sequence non-stop in Walnut Creek in Apr with a cocktail eulogise attended by pattern twin Mark Badgley and James Mischka. La Soie sales attendants take a time to get to know any bride, so she feels as if she’s shopping from a crony as she tries on a personalized preference of gowns by Badgley Mischka, Enzoani, Blue by Enzoani and a lower-priced La Soie namesake collection. Prices: $1,100 to $5,000, with many between $1,500 and $3,500.
1413 Cypress St., Walnut Creek, (925) 933-9988. www.lasoiebridal.com.
Bridal Project
Bridal Project offers low discounts on representation and shipment gowns by large names, including Vera Wang, Anne Barge and Lazaro. The store shuts down for any appointment to give a bride finish remoteness and one-on-one courtesy – a and for a many brides who come to Bridal Project with a combined vigour of a wedding-time crunch. Bridal Project sells dresses directly off a rack, so those in a precipitate don’t have to wait several months for a new robe to be made. Prices: $700 to $7,000.
319-B Primrose Road, Burlingame, (415) 290-5255. www.bridal-project.com.
Nouvelle Vogue
Nouvelle Vogue determined itself as a place to learn a subsequent large European engineer when it introduced Californians to Jenny Packham years ago. She’s given turn a vital name in bridal. Today, worldly brides who wish to emporium over a mainstream group to a insinuate boutique for a general preference of delicate frocks by Rosa Clara, Sarah Houston and Cymbeline of Paris, among others. Prices: $3,500 to $8,500, with many between $3,800 and $5,500.
241 S. San Mateo Drive, San Mateo, (650) 347-3444. www.nouvellevoguebridal.com.
Maggie Winterfeldt is a San Francisco freelance author and blogs during a Editorialite. E-mail: style@sfchronicle.com