Andrea's Vintage Bridal  

THE BASICS:

This is dangerous territory. Our turnover is rapid, and we sell our dresses much faster than our clients sometimes realize. Once a dress is gone, we’ll never have anything like it again. We strongly recommend waiting to shop until you’re officially ready to “meet“ your gown and potentially take her home. In the mean time, check out recent bridal clients whose weddings we've shared on Facebook, our Instagram account, our Pinterest pages, and our Etsy shop to get a better handle on what our gowns look like.

Yes, please. We show gowns privately and the gowns aren't available to browse through otherwise. We pull all your gowns ahead of time and have them waiting for you in the fitting room when you arrive. Call us at 612-716-8006 or email us. Please be prepared to answer the questions below.

Great question! We request some key info: 

• your wedding date
• normal dress size AND height
• budget before alterations
• are you local/can you return to MN for 2-5 alteration appointments?
• have you ever tried on a wedding gown before this moment

We’re able to immediately narrow down our entire stock to about 15 dresses based on these factors, and those 15ish gowns are what we begin with at your appointment.

Yes! Visit our Etsy shop to better browse our inventory

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Unfortunately, we are not able to hold gowns at this time. We encourage you to take pictures during your appointment to help you make this big decision.

The alterations process is a bit different in our shop, as we find most brides want to work with a seamstress, which we'll recommend, to alter necklines, remove sleeves & long trains (possibly using the fabric from these discarded parts to open the bodice and turn a size 2 into a larger size), or discard more elaborate vintage details such as dropped waists. This is in addition to fit alterations.

While vintage clothing in general is very popular, most people are unfamiliar with what vintage wedding dresses actually look like. We work with our brides to bring out the lovely timeless quality in every wedding gown.

We can comfortably accommodate sizes Petite 000-Tall 14, and everything in between. If a dress is not quite right, a good seamstress can work magic to make it fit you perfectly. In other words, don’t worry!

Most vintage sleeves are solid, heavy, opaque fabric to the wrist. Typically our clients desire a lighter, sheer, streamlined sleeve. These can be custom built onto any dress in our shop. Additionally, we always keep the sleeves with the dress, just in case you want to use the remaining fabric for a creative purpose.

Absolutely! We always have a large selection of modest dresses that are elegant and tasteful.

Our apologies, we no longer have an in-house seamstress. We can recommend a seamstress, but this is no longer part of our business.

You’d love to share some wedding day photos? Well, we’d love to have them! We can put them up in our gallery here  and on Facebook; just email them or private message us on Facebook.

Why are there so many songs about rainbows, and what’s on the other side?

Preliminary studies suggest a tertiary relationship between psychosocial entertainment elements in modern cultures and the metaphysical aspects of a collective unconscious that pertain to repressed experiential motives, pursuant to a post-diplomatic hegemony.

But really, its cuz we all want to be part of something beautiful.