A lovely gown for only N71,000 - takes your breath away.

 We have just added this gown the number of gowns which we have in stock for you. this gown is made from our rich matte duchess bridal satin this stunning gown is adorned with silver beading. It does have a full ball gown skirt and comes with a matching wrap and purse.

Included in the price is shipping and all custom costs to Nigeria. 

Special Moments Nigeria - Polices - MUST READ BEFORE YOU PURCHASE

Thank you for shopping with Special Moments Nigeria.
Please take a moment to read all the terms carefully - it will save you time! 

SATISFACTION GUARANTEE
We encourage you to not wear or alter our merchandise until you are sure you are 100% satisfied with the transaction. No refund will be issued for altered, modified or used items. 
If the gown has been altered in any way, either by you or by Special Moments Nigeria, at your request, this is considered a CUSTOM ORDER and CANNOT BE REFUNDED OR EXCHANGED.
All buyers are responsible for all shipping, returns and exchange shipping fees unless the merchandise has been mistakenly shipped. 
For International shipments, the buyer is responsible for all customs and duty charges and international shipping (please ask us what this amounts to). 
NO refund will be issued for special order items that are irregular size or not part of our standard line. 
NO refund or exchange will be given for any lingerie items. 
NO refund or exchange will be given for any bra items. 
NO refund or exchange will be given for any shoe items. 

PAYMENT 
We accept all debit cards, online bank transfers and direct deposits which you must use in order to receive items within 14-21 days for stocked items. Some special orders and non-stock items can take up to 12-14 weeks delivery. Please contact us for estimated delivery times. 
Bank checks will take 3 business days to process – rush processing is not available on these payments. All orders will be processed within 2 days from receipt and confirmation of payment. An email or text message will be sent to you to notify you that your item has been shipped.

You will receive first the international tracking number and then depending on the courier within Nigeria you have choosen, another tracking number will be sent to you. Please note we do not do pick-ups.

EXCHANGE PROCEDURE
You must contact our Exchange Department to obtain an Exchange Authorization Code.
Exchanges can be made within a reasonable time frame after receiving the dress.
No exchange will be given after the wedding date that is given at the time of ordering, or after 6 months from the order date if no wedding date is given at the time of ordering. 
NO exchange will be given for any custom orders, lingerie items or shoes.
An Exchange Authorization Code must be obtained from us and it must be visible on the outside of the returned box. 
Customer is responsible for return shipping costs and also for the reshipment of the exchange. 
Exchange items must be addressed to: 

Special Moments Nigeria
P.O.Box 7009
Marina.
For DHL, REDSTAR, UPS, or other courier methods please contact us for return address.
Please fill out the Return/Exchange Form (click to download) or send a letter stating the EXCHANGE AUTHORIZATION CODE, customer name, address, contact phone number, wedding date, name on the payment card/account and bank, the reason for exchange and What you want to exchange for must be included in the box. Any Exchange without a letter in the box will NOT be accepted. NO EXCEPTIONS! 
NO Refund/Exchange will be given if it is dirty, has animal/human hair, makeup, altered or if it is in anything other than like-new condition.  


RETURN PROCEDURE
You must contact our Returns Department within THREE CALENDAR Days, including the day you receive your shipment, to obtain a Return Authorization Code. You must also have your items back into a tracking system (USPS, FedEx, UPS, DHL, etc) within those same 3 calendar days.
Returns are only accepted with a shipment tracking number provided to us that was sent/postmarked with the 3 calendar days of receiving the shipment. Our THREE CALENDAR DAYS POLICY IS STRICTLY ENFORCED ON REFUNDS.
Special promotion free tiaras must be returned with Bridal Gown. Full price will be charged and withheld from your refund if not returned. 
A 10% restocking fee will apply (N4000 minimum fee per item). You are risking very little to save a lot. 
**NOTICE - any item priced under N4000 is non-refundable.** 
NO refund will be given for any custom orders, lingerie items, shoes or bras. 
A Return Authorization Code must be obtained from us and it must be visible on the outside of the returned box. 
Returned items must be addressed to: 

Special Moments Nigeria
P.O.Box 7009
Marina.
Please fill out the Return/Exchange Form (click to download) or send a letter stating the RETURN AUTHORIZATION CODE, customer name, address, contact phone number, wedding date, name on the credit card and the reason for return must be included in the box along with an e-mail to returns@specialmomentsng.com. Any Return or Exchange without a letter in the box will NOT be accepted. NO EXCEPTIONS! 
NO Refund/Exchange will be given if it is dirty, has animal/human hair, makeup, altered or if it is in anything other than like-new condition.  
Please allow 10-14 business days for us to process your return/refund.

 
ORDER CANCELLATION
All cancellations must be requested by an email to returns@specialmomentsng.com and the return email address MUST match the email address on the original order. No cancellations will be refunded without an email request. 
Cancelled orders will be charged 10% of original order price per item (N4000 minimum fee per item). 

Special Moments Nigeria carries over 1000 Items in stock. All stock items will be shipped within five working days. Non-stock items only are subject to a possible 10-12 weeks delivery. Faster delivery is available for special order Bridal Gowns (Wedding Dresses) with N20,000 expediting fees. Remember we stock the most common styles, sizes and colours.
Again, thank you for shopping with us and we hope that you recommend us to others. Custom Order Gowns can take up to 14-16 weeks to deliver and are non-refundable and non-exchangeable.

The construction of all our gowns is easy for alterations; there is a minimum 4” seam allowance in all of our gowns. We have many styles in stock, so if you are looking for a style in particular call or e-mail a picture and we will try our best to help you find the perfect dress for you. We have several sizes in stock, but we can order your size and colour if it is not in our warehouse.

Naija's own online wedding store

Finally we might not need to worry about getting our gowns through friends and family who live in the states or united kingdom anymore.  We bring you our own Naija online wedding store with gowns imported straight from the states.

You have peace of mind knowing your gown will get to you in time to see if you need to fit it, also you can pay for the gown in naija's own naira.

This has been a dream long coming and we are in the final stages of completing the website and everything necessary to make your journey to that special moment a smooth one. 

Please see our page on facebook + watch this space --- www.specialmomentsng.com

Photographer 1 - Elo Photos

This outfit is run by Seun Akisanmi and his lovely wife (who is also a make-up artiste). They have a number of people they bring with them on the job depending on the package you request.

From experience (my wedding) I can say they deliver and are on time. You can check them out at elophotos.com where you will find a whole lot of lovely pictures. (I hope you see me there too).

They have about 4 different packages and these packages begin from about 200k. More information on this can be gotten from the website.  (Please don't get scared of by price - they might have other custom-made packages)

Contact details: 08023008873 or 01-8766397

Smile! - Click - Photographers

This is one aspect of a wedding that we always want to get right. We want the best photographers but we want them at the cheapest rates hmmm. Sometimes they say good things come expensive.

Anyways! in recent times I have been searching the internet to see if I could find wedding photographers, it has not been easy as many of them dont have online presence.  

However some do. and whoa the pictures are lovely. I wish I could put them on here but I can't so I will only put a link to their websites so you can go take a look for yourself. Some of them do other things apart from weddings by the way.

Prices!

Now some of them are pretty expensive going as high as 250k but you can get some for much lesser - 70k. I would give you the ones I have found and see if I can get you an idea of what range their prices are. Its up to you to negiotiate with them for a better deal. Enjoy as we profile some photographers in the next couple of posts.

Hello! Another wedding gown

I had said I would bring to you a wedding gown that a friend recently bought through an online shop but I had forgotten.

I now bring the lovely wedding gown to you. It was reasonable priced and looked lovely one her. There was a bit of a stress getting the gown but when she finally got the gown it was worth the wait.

Nigerian wedding gown shops - please we need lovely gowns at fantastic prices.

Enjoy!

To import or not to import!

Hello everyone,

Have you ever thot "where will I get my wedding gown from"? or "hmm I have to get my gown in america or united kingdom"? I am sure a lot of people have had this thought at one point in time or the other, but some have been lucky to be able to afford such gowns while others have not.

Why do we want to import? - I think is so we can have a wider variety to choose from - afterall it is the most important item on the most important day of our lives, so we need to look our absolute best.

Well I do agree, however I think the bridal shops need to begin to step up their game, get us lovely choices at better prices. If they can be found in America, Uk then they should be available in Nigeria too.

Bridal shops, this question is to you - What arey ou doing to give us better services in a large variety of wedding gowns but not at exhornitant prices?

What would you pay for this gown?

Hello everyone,

Continuing from my last write up, I would like to ask you a simple question.
What would you pay for the gowns in this post? I think they are lovely? but what do you think and what would you think they would cost?





Please say anything on your mind, I would love to get feedback on this issue.

Am back

Am back with a bang and ready to keep you busy. I have been looking at the bridal shops and i have realised that they seem not to be enough shops to go round the people getting married. LOL

I also seem to notice that there are not so many varieties and therefore people just decide to go out of the country to buy their gowns (like i did) and a friend too just recently.

I am actually n the process of helping another friend get her wedding gown from the same online bridal shop i got mine. This got me thinking is it that the wedding shops in nigeria are selling expensive gowns or that they dont have enough variety.

Or do we simply want to get something different?

In my case I wanted something really different (as you can see) but then what would your reason be? Please let us all know.

Congratulations to the couple below

I am sorry I have been away for too long, things just seem to happen so fast that I had no time to recover and give you gist of all that has been going down. 

Before I continue, congratulations to my friend who added the last post. She just delivered a bouncing baby boy.  Kudos to you my friends.

How I got my wedding gown

About three months to my wedding, I had been able to identify the wedding gown I wanted from the same site Shawla got hers and was working on how to make payments and shipping arrangements. This was after looking so hard for a 'slevefull' ivory wedding gown.

However, my story changed completely when my sister asked that I help her buy suits from a shop in Abuja, Ashers where they sell suits at wholesale rates. On my way going to the shop, I was stopped by Road Safety guys and they successfully extorted a whooping N2,000 from me. I was so angry at my sister and myself for agreeing to run the errand that I just stomped into the shop with a tightened face not even answering any greeting from the attendants.

As I walked into the shop, I noticed that wedding gowns were displayed in a new section that was just carved out of the shop. I diverted my mission and glared around the hung wedding gowns. I pointed at a gown and asked one of the sales girls how much it cost. She asked me to guess and with my nose turned up and my mind made up that the gowns will be highly expensive, I mentioned an exorbitant price. The girl then smiled and mentioned a price that was like 70% less than my guess.

Immediately, my countenance changed and I carefully looked around the gowns to see if any matched my specifics. Lo and behold, there it was, a 'slevefull' ivory wedding gown. I went to where the gown was and realised there was another customer standing beside the gown and a sales girl working so hard to convince her to buy the gown but she kept on giving one excuse after other.

I asked the sales girl for the cost of the gown and she gave me a price that was 50% less than my initial arrangement via the website. I checked the size and men….it was my exact wedding gown size, a 10!. Not minding the other customer, I told the sales girl I would like to try it on. I was helped into the gown and as the zipper was fastened, everyone around had their mouth agape. I guess I looked like the dream bride. The owner of the shop who had also come out of her office to look at the bride-to-be announced that I would get a free ball slip along with the gown because I was their first wedding gown customer……..

I made a deposit for the gown with the money meant for my sister’s suit and promised to makeup the balance by the next week. I’m sure you’re wondering what happened to the other lady. Well, she stayed back to watch the drama in the shop when I tried on the gown and as I was driving out, she came to meet me and asked if I was interested in renting out the gown since her wedding came before mine…….can you imagine.

Of course, I did not agree! Rent ko, dash ni….

Wedding gown shop in Nigeria

Hello everyone,

while looking for the best deal online wedding gown shop it occurred to me that it would not be a bad idea to have a wedding gown shop considering I seem to have a knack for finding manufacturers and suppliers of a whole range of things.

While this thot was still trying to develop in my head, i was trying to visualize a wedding shop that i have gone to that had wall to wall floor lenght mirror where you could look at your dress.

What does it take to start a wedding dress shop? Ideas please my dear friends.

List of wedding gowns providers

Hello, I have been able to dig up some wedding gown providers, This is only a few as I would keep adding to this list as time go by and as I get more leads as to who makes beautiful gowns and who knows where to get them abroad too.

Angelic Bridals
Address 87 Opebi Road, ,Ikeja Lagos.
Phone: +234 1 8128687.

Aisle of White
Wedding gowns & accessories, bridesmaid & page boy outfits, flowers, jewellry, fabrics etc
Address 62, Awolowo Road, Ikoyi Lagos.
Mobile: +234 (0) 8023858347, 8033944978.

Akuben Enterprises Nigeria Limited
Wedding gowns & accessories, evening wears, kiddies ball gowns etc
Address Shop A16, Bolashodun Plaza, 24 Breadfruit Street, Off Matrins Street Lagos.
Mobile: +234 (0) 803 319 2845.

Bamsol bridals
Address 8, James Robertson Street, Surulere Lagos.
Mobile: +234 (0) 8033334109, 8023035727.

Beegee Bridals
Address 81 Babington Ashaye Crescent ,Omole Phase I Lagos.
Mobile: +234 (0) 8033425281.

Bridal House
Wedding gowns and accessories, cakes, souvenirs, programmes, invitations etc
Address 54 Opebi Road,Ikeja Lagos.
Phone: +234 1 773 0084.

Bridals & More
Address 19B Ladipo Oluwole Street ,Ikeja Lagos.
Mobile: +234 (0) 8036146000, 8032035400.

Dannies Bridals
Wedding gowns, rings, shoes, bridesmaid/little bride & evening dresses, jewellry, limousine etc
Address 2nd Floor, Coscharis House, 68A Adeola Odeku Street, Victoria Island Lagos.
Phone: +234 1 262 6346.

Fruitful Bridals & Decors
Address 63 Kudirat Abiola Road ,Ikeja Lagos.
Phone: +234 1 4819136.

Havilah Bride
Wedding gowns and accessories
Address 42, Toyin Street, Ikeja Lagos.
Phone: +234 1 813 0917.

Mac's Bridals
Address 400, Hebert Macaulay Street, Jibowu, Yaba Lagos.
Phone: +234 1 863 107, 811 0200.

NONIX
Wedding Gowns, Rings, Accessories, Cakes etc
Address 8, Lawanson Road, Surulere Lagos.
Phone: +234 1 790 0741.

Simworths Ventures
Address 90 Ogunlana Drive, Surulere Lagos.
Phone: +234 1 4819769.

Vertini
Address 61, Opebi Road ,Ikeja Lagos.
Phone: +234 1 8912155.

Wedding Centre, The
Address 8b Toyin Street ,Ikeja Lagos.
Phone: +234 1 8049230.

If I have missed out any wedding gown providers or you know someone who does lovely gowns please let me know so we can have them in this list. Thanks ladies and gents as well.

What are we talking about?

Hi everyone, I have been thinking what we were going to start talking about. And i figured, why not lets start with the wedding gown. Every bride dreams of a lovely wedding dress for her wedding, strapless, flowing with a train, beads, trimmings and all.

Okay, there are lots of lovely gowns out there for you to look at until you get that one that works for you, but there are also people that make lovely custom gowns for you too. My wedding gown was bought on the internet by me and I had it shipped to me in Nigeria funny enough through EMS and I got it 10days after. I found this lovely website  while preparing for my wedding and I just loved the gown cos to me it looked really unique.

The wonderful thing about it was that it was not so expensive, however the down side was that I could not pay by myself - no credit card or anything. So I got my brother to make the purchase for me, after I told them I wanted the gown shipped to Nigeria. Now you don't necessarily have to buy abroad, you can buy in Nigeria, or you can even have it made. My next post will tell you some place you can buy from both in Nigeria and abroad and for good money too.

Welcome

I welcome you all to this new blog of mine. Its all about weddings and where to get all the best things to use for your wedding and to make it a very special and different one.

I got married just about a year ago and I can say that this would have a lot of the resources I had to try and use to make sure my wedding was what I wanted it to be. So please get ready for lovely lovely information that is just going to make you think up ideas for your own special day.

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You are welcome to add your comments as well as information you know would benefit others. Hey suppliers you are welcome too, you can tell us about your products and how we can get them or give us tips on making more special days.

Shawla