About Us
Welcome to Carolyn Anne's Bridal
Carolyn Anne's Bridal was formally known as "Confetti Bridal Gowns" that was established in 1994 and was first run from a home bridal barn in West chiltington, Sussex. In 2014 we took over as the new owners and decided to open up a wedding dress shop in Worthing, Sussex. In 2016 we had an idea and a new business plan!
Before we could put our plan into action, we did lots of research and even went around to other bridal shops seeing what was offered to a bride, sizing, prices and how brides were treated and after being quite shocked by some of what we saw, it made up our minds that we wanted to be completely different to the other bridal shops we had researched.
We saw the same old designer label dresses we had seen online and in other bridal shops, unrealistic small sizes on the rails, wedding dresses that you could not make changes to which we found limiting and not many colour options. Our plan was to have our very own design labels, find our very own dressmakers that we could deal with directly so our brides could customise their own wedding dresses, have any colour they wanted and supply realistic sized wedding dresses.
We finally hit the jackpot when we found 5 premium dressmakers who provide top designer dresses globally. The difference is we wanted our own unique custom labels and our dressmakers to work directly with us and not through any middle man so they provide everything we ask for.
In 2016 we moved into our second wedding dress shop in Worthing and had "Confetti Bridal Gowns" upstairs and opened up the extension of our business "The Bridesmaid Room" downstairs. In 2018 we had such high demand for our services both wedding and bridesmaids that we decided to offer longer and more flexible hours to our brides and the only way to accomadate this was to run our wedding business from our home bridal boutique.
In 2019 our customised service was going so well but sadly tragedy struck in the family and our beautiful mum Carolyn passed away from Leukaemia. Carolyn was one of our biggest supporters of our business and always wanted to hear our new ideas. So we made a big decision to change our business name to "Carolyn Anne's Bridal" in her honour.
Carolyn Anne's Bridal is all about choice, colour and change and we offer you the choice to customise any of our wedding dress styles with an array of unlimited colours. We also have an extended service with our bridesmaid dresses boutique where you will find around 50 bridesmaid dresses to see and try on which is very rare in bridal shops in the area.
Carolyn Anne's Bridal would love to be involved in celebrating eternal love with you, so if we are a wedding dress shop in Worthing you would like to visit to start your exciting wedding dress journey, then please book in with us below, we cannot wait to welcome you with open arms and be part of it.
Facts about us
Did you know?
- Our wedding dress business was born 28 years ago in 1994 which makes us the longest serving wedding dress business in Worthing.
- We used to be known as Confetti Bridal Gowns run from a home bridal barn by the old owner and we had 2 shops from 2014 until our expansion in 2019
- We opened up The Bridesmaid room in 2016 to run alongside our wedding dress business but got such a huge demand for bridesmaid dresses we decided to run our bridal boutique from home to offer more flexible hours for our brides and bridesmaids.
- In 2019 we changed our name to Carolyn Anne's Bespoke Bridal to promote our customised service and we are now also known as The Bridesmaid Dresses Boutique.
- We have premium dressmakers that provide top designer wedding dresses to boutiques all over the world but ours are unique and we have our own design team.
- We save you lots of money in alterations as we have all dresses made to your sizes at the time of the order.
- When we took over the business we did a lot of undercover research on how other bridal shops worked and once we did that it made up our minds that we did not want to run our business the same way and to make ourselves completely different.
- There are 2 staff, myself as the owner and i have a silent partner.
