The Quote Book
Bridal gowns get a 15% complexity bump built in — linings, structure, and boning add real time.
Pick the first thing this dress needs. You can add more, one at a time, as you go.
Split this quote into a deposit at booking, a progress payment, and a final payment on delivery — or set deposit and progress to 0 for a single payment due on delivery.
Final payment on delivery: remaining 30%.
The initial fitting plus 2 follow-ups are included in this quote — no separate charge.
Each additional fitting beyond the initial + 2 included follow-ups, at $20.
This adjusts on its own as you add services and fittings. Feel free to type over it if a particular job runs longer or shorter than usual.
Bridal work runs on a sliding scale — this is a starting floor, not the real number. Bump it up for extra layers, complexity, or anything that runs long.
What would you normally have charged for this job, before running the numbers?
What would you normally have charged for this job, before running the numbers?
Pick photos of jobs you've already done — from your camera roll, or downloaded off Facebook. Tag each one with what you did and what you actually charged. This doesn't save the photos themselves, just what you tell it about each one — so you build a real record of your own pricing history instead of guessing.
Go through a year's worth of paper receipts or photos of them. For each one, log the client and split out the base price, anything added along the way out of necessity, and any bridal allowance she set aside. This doesn't save the receipt photos themselves — just what you tell it about each one.