I hope all is well! This weekend was so busy at Kleinfelds!!! Sunday was crazy! I first started working with Rosaria which is very fun! She is a older lady who is from Italy and speaks a little English. It is hard to work with her but it is also very fun at the same time because she teaches me Italian when we are not busy! I was working with her through two brides but then Lauren, one of my managers asked me to work with Jenny the new consultant. I started working with her and went over the contract with this bride while Jenny worked with her new bride. I went over everything with the bride and as we were walking to the register she started to freak out and was crying. I was in shock and I had no clue what to do or say. The mother said that the bride was having second thoughts and that I should let them have a moment to talk. So I stepped away but after about ten minutes of waiting I decided to go get Lauren and have her come over to the bride to figure things out. Once Lauren and the bride went back into a room, they discussed everything and the bride calmed down but said she needed to go have a drink and then make a decision. So Lauren and I did just that and she left Kleinfeld's. I believe the main problem of this situation was that the bride was from Australia and her wedding was in November. In bridal, this is very late for a bride to be shopping for a dress. The dresses take anywhere from four to a year to be made so coming in eight to twelve months before your wedding is a great idea! Do not come any later then that! It becomes too late and then there is rush charges and alteration worries. It usually takes six to eight weeks for full alterations to be done so with this bride we were really pushing the time crunch. The dress she was ordering was going to come in the end of October and she was going to have three weeks to do alterations before the wedding. The reason why the bride was getting so upset was because she did not think she was going to get the dress today and was overwhelmed. After that bride left, I was assigned to work with Rosaria again, but after working with her for ten minutes, Lauren came in and asked me to go greet a bride in the salon and help her get in a dress, she was a comeback bride, I had worked with her before with Paula, Paula still had the original appointment bride though to work with as well. I remembered this bride because she was a absolute doll! Her appointment a couple weeks ago went fantastic! It was her first time trying on dresses and she was shaking she was so excited. She found one she absolutely loved but then told us she had to bring her mother back with her. This happens all the time so Paula and I were completely fine with it, until the bride told us the situation. The bride had fallen in love with a very nice Jewish man and has been dating him for about five years. She is Asian and her mother was not very happy about the relationship. The mother would not meet the man for three years, she was that upset. He even converted to Catholic to please the mother of the bride but she still was unhappy. The bride told us comments her mother had made to her and I almost started to cry. I felt terrible for the bride because she was so sweet, but it was very sad. If I had the money to buy the bride her dress I would have that day! She brought her mother back and she liked the dress, but told the bride she needed to wait more and see what happens. The bride was very sad and left without any dress. But Paula and I have her email and cell phone, so I think Paula is going to keep checking in on her! After working with that bride, Lauren told me to continue to work with Paula. I had met the new bride and was working with her when Lauren pulled me aside and told me to go get Elaine's comeback bride and make the sale. I worked with this bride and she was very nice! She had brought her daughter along which was really fun and she bought a Pnina! After making that sale with that bride, I then was told to go work with Paula, so I went back but then Rosaria called me and asked me to help her make the contract with her bride. Now this bride was a hoot! Lauren my manager came in and was measuring the bride and I thought she had a very nice curvy body but she did not like it! She then told me that she is making all of her bridesmaids lose weight with her! Lauren and I were talking out of the room and were like if anyone were to ask me to be in their wedding but I had to lose weight before I would say "no thank you!" The bride is seriously putting them in a boot camp and purposely buying them too tight dresses, so they have to lose weight! I wanted to say "are you crazy?" So while Lauren was measuring her, her size came to a bridal 12, which is in normal clothing a 8-10. Well the bride was not happy with this and made Lauren order her a size 10, because she was insist on losing weight! It was hilarious, I had to step out because of the craziness that was going on!
I worked with every consultant today! It was insane but really fun at the same time!
Today was my day off, and I went to the Brooklyn Bridge which was very pretty! I also stopped at the famous "Dylan's Candy Bar." Ralph Laurens daughter owns the store! It was really cool I attached pictures!!
I hope all is well
Happy Endings From NYC
Samantha
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