Carolina at The White Magnolia-Nashville was truly a dream to work with at this new Nashville location. I live in Nebraska, but am getting married in Nashville next year. Although I visited and found some top contenders for my wedding dress i...n Nebraska, I was having a hard time committing as each dress (although beautiful) was missing something and I couldn’t pinpoint what. As a result, when we went for a weekend of wedding planning in Nashville, I figured why not see if any dress shop in Nashville had available appointments? Maybe they had a different selection! I had no realistic belief that I would actually buy a dress being from out of town!
Carolina (the manager) managed to get me in for an appointment with 48 hours notice. More importantly, she actually read my appointment request (which probably said something like “uh…I found dresses I really like, but can’t figure out why they aren’t the ‘one’”… very articulate) and immediately texted me to ask me to send her pictures of my top contenders and my hesitations about each one in order to make sure she had a selection that would not waste my time. From our texts, she curated a beautiful selection of dresses that were spot-on in the realm of what I liked! At our appointment, she gave amazingly helpful tips in narrowing which dresses were dresses we wanted to revisit at the end of the appointment and which should be knocked out right away. She blended the perfect combination of being supportive and soothing, but also realistic and serious about the dresses in order to guide me (a master in indecision) to making choices and actually figuring out what I wanted.
At the end of it all, I left the shop with 2 dresses in mind, and booked a follow-up appointment to come back two days later before I flew out. When I threw her a curveball an hour before the appointment to ask if I could revisit one dress that we had earlier tried on, but had not made the “top 2” cut, she responded immediately with affirmation and supportive words – she never made me feel like a burden! By that afternoon, I had settled on that 3rd dress (a dress she had pulled for me at our first appointment that I may have never picked out on my own) and left the shop with a receipt in hand (as well as some congratulations goodies!) and gratitude that Carolina carefully and respectfully guided me toward a dress that I am extremely excited about.
As an aside, the White Magnolia-Nashville location is truly a pristine and beautiful little shop – I wish that I could borrow the interior decorator for my own home! Thank you to Carolina for easing my worries and helping me finally find my dress!