Divas has some very pretty dresses, which is the only reason I gave them two stars instead of one. However, their staff are beyond terrible. I went here to try on wedding dresses and back again with my mom for her mother of the bride dress. When I went for wedding dresses, they had lost my appointment time despite the fact I had email confirmation. They let me try on anyway, but the staff member assigned to us was very unhelpful. She was more worried about her own personal appearance than me and my wedding dress. And BEWARE: Divas will try to get you to buy your dress the day of by offering a 10% discount that day only. This is a ploy and is used to talk people into buying dresses they aren't sure about. I did not buy my wedding dress here.
Now on to my mom's MOB dress experience. The lady who helped her was awful. She did not listen to what my mom wanted and continued to bring her things she didn't care for and that I flat out thought were ugly. I also told her no black dresses and she brought out many black dresses stating she knows I said no black but she thinks my mom would like them. Ugh! My mom put her clothes back on a number of times to leave and this woman would go get another dress and say anything she could think of to get my mom to buy it. It was annoying and was clear she just wanted a sale and didn't care about how my mom looked on her daughter's wedding day. Despite her terribleness, my mom found a dress she really liked, only to find out they couldn't even order it in her size! We were told before we got there that the MOB dresses ranged from $600-1,500. However, the dress my mom liked was $1,600. And after she fell in love with it, they let her know they couldn't order it and alterations would be around $600. She didn't buy it. The next day, I found the exact dress my mom wanted online at Saks.com, in her size, for under $500!
I also have overheard who I can only assume is the manager be very rude and unhelpful to multiple customers. Not a great way to run a business with such high-end prices.
UPDATE 1/25/16
Down to one star! I have been meaning to update my review and Diva's reply to my post reminded me to do so. My mom received a call about my yelp review for the sole purpose of asking her to ask me to take it down. You read that right, my mom received a call, not me, then was asked to tell me something! I laughed when she told me because I saw that others received a similar call about their negative reviews, but at least they were contacted directly.
What's interesting about the fact they called my mom about my review is that my mom was supposed to receive a call the Tuesday following our visit to Diva's about the exact cost of alterations for the dress she liked. My mom was never contacted about her dress and two days after she was supposed to hear from Diva's, she received the call about my yelp review. During this call, my mom asked them why they did not call her about her dress. They claimed the reason was because the seamstress would need to see the dress. The point here is that they still should have called my mom on Tuesday as promised and let her know SOMETHING. That is what they said they would do, and they should have followed through. Any reputable business would have done this. My mom was unaware of what Yelp was, and after I explained it to her and she saw Diva's reviews for herself, her exact words to me were "I guess they need to get their act together." The fact that Diva's would reply to my review in the way they did is, at best, unprofessional. A boutique such as Diva's should have top notch service. Unfortunately, when it comes to customer service, Diva's fails miserably.
To Diva's: Yelp is a place for opinions, and I am entitled to have my own; arguing with my opinion is useless and unproductive. Further, calling and asking people to take down their reviews only makes you look desperate and unfocused. Instead of wasting time on this, it would serve you well to spend this time improving your customer service and customer satisfaction while people are still in your store forming their opinions. Since I last left your store, you have only served to make me think less of your business. read more