A wedding is a very important step in the life of any woman. On the eve of the celebration, the girls are visited by no wedding salon in the hope of buying a legendary white dress with lace or other ornaments.
In this regard, if you open your wedding salon, you will have the opportunity not only to help the brides pick your own - the ideal image and make an ideal wedding , but also exaggerate your material condition.
Is it profitable to open a wedding salon?
In recent years, the demand for renting wedding dresses has dropped significantly, which means that the wedding salons expand their client base. Another important factor is that on the territory of our country to sew to order or purchase a good wedding dress can be several times cheaper than in European countries, which motivates foreigners to buy wedding dresses from us.
How to open a salon of wedding dresses?
- The room. Typically, for such purposes, a room of 30 m2 is sufficient. The only condition is that the salon should be located at all in sight and have a large beautiful display case. Special space for the wedding salon also does not require any special repair or decoration, but it must necessarily have a comfortable large fitting room and very good lighting.
- Equipment. In order to equip the premises, average material costs are required. You will need to purchase racks where clothes, mannequins, mirrors, hangers, etc. are weighed. Also, materials are needed that will help fit the dresses to the figure of the client and much more. The peculiarity of wedding dresses is that after 2-3 examples it must be taken to dry cleaning, so there is such a practice as "taking a pledge" for trying on a dress that will be returned in case of buying this dress.
- Staff. You, as the hostess of the salon, can of course accept orders and keep accounts, but in the hall you will need an assistant. The staff working in the hall should have a good understanding of the tissues and know the psychology. For tailoring dresses to order you will need a staff of professional seamstresses who can quickly and efficiently execute any orders of clients about wedding dresses. All staff need to pay wages, which at average rates are in the aisles of $ 350.
- Product. At least 20 models of dresses should be presented in the trading hall of the beginning wedding salon. A significant part of the salons do not order dresses from popular foreign brands, but sew them themselves. Seamstresses often work to order, but if there are no orders, the work is redirected to the broadening of the assortment of the wedding salon. Usually in a season the salon can sell from 20 to 40 ready wedding dresses. The extra charge for ready-made dress is from 70 to 100%.
- Advertising. No shop, restaurant, salon, etc. can not survive in a competitive environment without advertising. Advertising boards, radio advertising, etc. This is an integral part of the promotion of your business, in which you will need to invest money.
How much does it cost to open a wedding salon
By the most conservative calculations, all of the above, for today, you will cost $ 50- $ 70,000. Also, be prepared for the fact that the first six months you will most likely have to work in the negative, until the advertisement begins to expand your client base.
So, summing up, it is worth saying that the choice to open a wedding salon is yours. It should be understood that without extensive knowledge in the field of private entrepreneurship, any one's own business is a danger of losing a lot of money, but at the same time it is practically the only opportunity to earn it, so everything is in your hands.