Ace Reporters Crack Wedding Dress Mystery!

Now that I have your attention....This morning I was looking thru the newspaper - yes, the kind with pages and print - I LOVE those and hate to see them disappearing all over the globe but that's another BLOG - Anyway, full page ad Page A7 Sooner Surplus Sales - "Wedding Dresses - Top of the Line at a FRACTION of Bridal Store Prices" "Nothing priced over $299" -  so we decided to take a drive to the west side of Tulsa and check it out.  You have to go across the 21st street bridge, follow signs towards Chandler Park and it's on the left before the park.   It's a warehouse.   It's a WAREHOUSE.  A metal warehouse.   When you go in it's like a big thrift store.  We walked all the way to the back and there they were.   Racks of wedding dresses in their plastic sheaths and hanging according to size. Sizes 2-16.  Organized.  The covers had a name and phone number on it and I googled it and it was a bridal store from Tempe, Arizona that went out of biz.  Anyway, there were a lot of dresses.  Some not so great, but some were very nice.  They had a few Alfred Angelo dresses, MToo Couture, and several other brands.  They still had the store tags on them with prices and then the sign for pricing at the Warehouse.  

We thought we'd be like Clark Kent and Lois Lane reporting but it was more like Lucy & Ethel as we sneaked Sophia into the dressing room (I use that term loosely) to try one on. It's a little big on her but you can see the dress anyway.

This one was a M Too Couture dress.  It had a full lace overlay with scallop lace hem and tons of little seed pearls also.  It was a very pretty dress.   This is a size 6 but I saw it in several sizes.  It had a price tag of $2299.00 on it from the store.  It was $299.00 at the Warehouse. 


Had a zipper in the back but it also had the little satin buttons.
Had a sweeping circular train that french bustled underneath.
The price tag:  $2299.00   - white tag from warehouse $299.99




Bottom line is, there are some nice dresses there to be found if you look for them. They had white, diamond white, candlelight, off white, white w/red, white w/black, sleeves, sleeveless, cap sleeves, long sleeves. A lot to choose from. It's not glamourous. No one is going to schmooze you or offer you champagne while you shop but then you will be getting a dress for under $300 so you'll save enough money to buy your own champagne! (Or Upgrade your wedding Album!) Something else, you cannot alter a dress down more than two sizes. So, if you wear a size 2, don't buy a size 8. It won't work. And, remember, a dress this big never looks the same on the hanger - YOU HAVE TO TRY IT ON to find out if it's THE ONE.

You might find something stellar like this "chello wine rack" (taken from the tag)