Cicada

09/22/08

Beautiful wedding dresses with excellent service

by dendres at Citysearch

Cicada bridal is wonderful. I am a former Seattlite now living in Utah. After looking through all of the shops in Salt Lake City, I could not find a single wedding dress I liked. On a trip to Seattle, I stopped in at Cicada and found the perfect dress style--the Lucy. The dress was exactly what I imagined for my wedding dress. It was elegant and simple. Since the floor version was too short, I ordered a customized version of the Lucy dress. Elizabeth did an amazing job. I only needed one fitting on a second trip to Seattle and with a few minor alterations, I received my dress in the mail just a few months later. It fit perfectly and looked fabulous. I received so many complements on the dress at my wedding. When I was in for the fitting, the service was excellent. Elizabeth answered all of my questions about the dress and helped me pick out the perfect jewelry to go with it. My best guy friend came with me to the fitting and was so impressed with the dress, the service, and the shop in general. In a nutshell, cicada dresses are unique, elegant, and beautifully made. The service is excellent. And, they saved me from having to settle for a big, poofy, frilly, not-my style wedding dress. I'll definitely be back for more cicada--not for another wedding dress, but for their great selection of party dresses.

08/19/08

Gorgeous work, reasonable prices, *fantastic* customer service

by bhattrm at Citysearch

I had my custom wedding dress made here and was incredibly impressed with the designer's skill and their customer service. The train of the dress incorporated sari fabric; when they sketched and priced the dress I had not yet purchased the sari. The fabric I later purchased turned out to be really hard to work with. They had to alter the design, really work with the structure of the dress, etc, and through the whole experience Elizabeth was incredibly helpful, gracious, and able to solve any creative problem. They even honored the originally quoted price, which I couldn't believe given all the extra work they had to do. The finished product was gorgeous and all for a price less than that of most of the dresses you could buy at a typical store. Highly, highly, highly recommend!!!

• Pros: Design skills, incredible value and customer service
• Cons: Parking is difficult, but that's just downtown Seattle

02/11/08

If I knew I could have a dress like this, I would have gotten married years ago!

by Mellicia at Citysearch

This place is completely unbelievable. I selected the top of one dress, the bottom of another and the fabric from a third for my wedding dress. I was a little apprehensive because the fabric has feathers on it.... which, let's face it, can be super cool or completely out of control. But, the amazing people at Cicada went with it and it's the most amazing dress ever. It fit PERFECTLY with my very first fitting and has the Great Gatsby written all over it. The best part is that the dress is completely "me" and didn't cost much more than buying one off the floor! I never thought I'd be able to find something that suited me so perfectly. Or, that I would be able to have SO much input on the dress.

If you are getting married, you'll never find another place that will give you this level of input and quality. You absolutely MUST go.

• Pros: Options, Service, Value, Professionalism

09/25/07

EXCELLENT!!!!

by jserena at Citysearch

PERFECT, Custom dress, at a GREAT price. You don't have to go broke to look couture for your wedding, ladies. The lord only knows how I have been obsessed with fashion my entire life and if anyone needed to look PERFECT the day of their wedding it was me! My dress was a beautiful, backless two piece....amazing...the ladies at Cicada were funny, engaging, sweet and VERY talented. I went to several shops around seattle and stuck with Cicada because they were able to adjust the gown I picked to make it me...everyone at the wedding loved it and we had a pretty famous photographer photograph the wedding and he kept commenting on how stunning the dress was to photograph....I saw a couple of bad reviews and it is unfortunate brides get caught up in taking time to make nasty comments that can hurt a business....I have lived in Seattle my entire life and many of my girlfriends have shopped at Cicada and they were all very happy....I will be posting a photo in the Seattle Times within the month..we were married at the Salish Lodge and Spa on Sept 21st, 2007 and I couldn't wait to post this comment...Cidcada is a lovely place for your special day and if I give it the thumbs up then it's good because I am the super snob when it comes to the right places and this place is wonderful.....

06/19/07

Interesting dresses, worst service anywhere

by mvigrl at Citysearch

Sorry, but I have to say you failed. My dress is nice no doubt, but ladies be forewarned that the seamtressses are never around. Jen was 20 minutes late to my first fitting (for which I had an appointment) and she wasn't even there for the 2nd causing me to have to make phone calls and another appointment and so on the week before my wedding. Enough stress thank you. Don't even get me started on the salespeople, one of which is outright bitchy and the other that is apologetic but unhelpful.

I still do not have my dress and am now argueing about paying for an alteration that wasn't correct. I get the laissez faire boutique attitude but when you are dropping big money you expect the staff to care.

• Pros: Nice, interesting dresses
• Cons: Seamstresses unavailable, staff bitchy