Cinderella’s Closet

Rose was extremely patient and very realistic when it came to explaining my dream wedding and dress. She showed a lot of enthusiasm and cared about my opinions. You can tell that she has a lot of experience in what she does just by her cliental and when explaining my dress to her she knew exactly who the designer was. I’m still deciding on my wedding but she is definitely someone I would recommend for any custom wedding dresses. I don’t think there is anything she can’t do.

First thing first. Rose is amazing. I came to Rose to create a very difficult 1930’s Ginger Rogers dress featured in the movie Swing Time. She made me feel confident that she would perfect it, and she did. I have seen a few ladies complain about how Rose waits till only a few months before the delivery date to start the whole process, but hey, do you want your dress to fit or not?! The need to understand that many brides will either gain tons of weight or lose a tons of weight a month or so before the big day. Rose is an experienced designer and knows what she is doing. I went to pick my dress up a week before the reception and found that we needed to do a few adjustments. I stayed calm and put my trust in Rose to fix my dress. Only a few days later my dress was on and fit like a glove; perfection! Rose is a perfectionist. She has you sign off on everything during the process of the dress making, so if something goes wrong, you can only blame yourself. Let Rose know exactly what you want for your dress and the price you can afford, and Rose will make it happen. Just put a little faith in her and be patient and everything will be GREAT!
Thank you Rose for an amazing dress that I will cherish for a lifetime.
Brooke

I am a wedding planner/​coordinator here in San Diego and went looking for Cinderella’s Closet after coordinating an incredibly sweet bride’s wedding this past fall… her dress was stunning! It looked like a $ 6,000 all lace gown with beautiful detailing and I know she paid $ 1,400 for it. One of my favorites from the 24 weddings I was a part of in 2011. She had nothing but amazing things to say about the experience. Thank you for making my adorable and giddy client so happy on her special day and I hope to work with you in the future. All my best to you!

I tried on over 200 dresses but could not find THE one I loved. One dress came close and it was more than $ 4,000… there was no way I would pay that much for the dress. I told Rose exactly what I wanted and she drew this beautiful sketch of me in my dress. Fitting and measuring process went seamlessly and she patiently honored all my requests.
When I watch TLC’s ‘Say Yes to the Dress,’ I am amazed at how women pick out a dress after trying on 5 dresses AND willing to pay thousands of dollars on average dresses like those.
Do yourself a favor; spend a fraction of cookie cutter dresses and make one of a kind (all silk) with Rose. You would be crazy not to.
I still remember the first time I saw my dress (almost teared up), and till this day my dress is the most beautiful one ever and so was I on my wedding day! :) I am sure you will be too.

Horrible! My experience with Cinderella’s Closet was horrible. My dress was delivered late with no time to fix what was wrong with it! Many features of the dress (like the train and the finishing on the neckline were not as I requested). The dress did not fit properly. Rose was often 30 – 45 min late for my fitting appointments — leaving me standing out on the street waiting for her to show up!
The dress was silk with allover lace. I requested that all of the lace be lined with the silk (i.e. no areas of the dress that were just lace with no silk underneath). My finished dress had a lace only train with no underlying silk.
I also was told that the pattern of the dress would be cut so that the selvages of the lace (the finished lace edges on the edges of fabric off the bolt) would form the edges of the neckline and form one continuous piece of lace. This is more expensive, because it limits where the dress pieces can be cut from a length of fabric. My finished dress was cut from lace that was not on the selvage and scrap pieces of lace edging was sewn onto the neckline. Not only did this disrupt the pattern of the lace, but it gave the neckline area a «double layer» of lace that looked darker than the rest of the dress! In some areas of the dress (like the arm holes) the edges of the double layer of sewn on lace stuck out to far. While I was getting dressed for the wedding I had to pin down the lace (with straight pins that poked me all night!). I really did not expect to be doing make-​shift alterations myself on my wedding day with straight pins on a custom made dress!
We discussed having a French bustle on the train. I was told there would be three «tie-​up locations» for the bustle. Rose said that these would be sewn into the seam lines of the dress, to that the weight of the train was supported and would not pull and pucker the material. On the finished dress there was one single eye-​hook (attached to the overlay lace of the dress only!) to clip up the train. Certainly not a French bustle. The eye-​hook was not placed in the right position — it was too low. More than a foot of fabric trailed on the ground and made it difficult for me to dance. In fact, in all my dancing photographs I have one of my hands with a big handful of dress because I had to hold it up to keep from tripping on it.
The dress did not fit properly. The neckline gapped open, the dress was too loose around the waist (and trust me — I didn’t loose any weight), and the length was too long. I didn’t think I need to say more about this issue SINCE THIS WAS A CUSTOM DRESS!
Rose was horrible to work with. She was significantly late to more than half of my appointments. Once she was 30 min late and the other time she was 45 min late. Also, she never even bothered to call me in advance to let me know she was running late. She did call — but at the appointment time (so I was already standing outside her office) to say that she’d be there in half an hour or so. This was very frustrating because the only time she had to schedule appointments was Tuesday morning — so I had to take time off of work.
All in all it was a horrible experience and I had to try really, really hard (lots of positive thinking!) to let this not ruin my wedding day.
I have never written a negative review about a service or a person before, but I don’t want you all to go through the same thing.

My experience with Rose at Cinderella’s Closet was a nightmare. Let’s just say, I saw my dress for the VERY FIRST TIME four days before my wedding. This is after she promised fittings that never happened and a dress at least a month before the wedding. Not only was the dress late… it had all sorts of problems, and it didn’t even fit. I was DEVASTATED. With four days left, I had to take it to an emergency alterations person who was able to make some of the changes, but not all. If you value your pre-​wedding sanity… don’t hire this woman to make your dress.

First I will start by saying that I’m very picky and hate to shop. Bad combo, I know. When I first began planning my wedding, I knew I was going to be in a bind since I knew that trying on a million and one dresses was not going to be the thing for me. I knew exactly what I wanted, I just had to find it. After scouring every website imaginable, I found the dress I wanted-​with a few minor changes. I tried to call the dress maker and change the things I didn’t like, but they wouldn’t make a dress with the changes I was requesting. After more internet searching, I found a website for a woman who makes wedding dresses. I called her, and the rest is wonderful history.
I met with Rose and showed her the dress I wanted, and explained to her what I wanted changed. Without hesitation, she said she could do it. She went over every detail to make sure she was 100% sure that we were on the same page, and she even made suggestions to make it better; afterwards I was able to choose the exact material and lace that I wanted. Over the next 8 months I went in for multiple fittings, to make sure it would fit perfectly, and finally received my dress a few weeks before my wedding.
My wedding dress was incredibly beautiful and fit me like a glove. Rose was able to replicate the exact dress I wanted, and make it spectacular! I can’t urge anyone enough to go see Rose at Cinderella’s Closet-​you won’t be disappointed.