Casa Mauricio

If you are looking for watters and wtoo dresses, she is basically having a sample sale and selling at 50%off for most of them. I stayed there for 3 minutes, and I can understand why the rating is low. She is nice, but way too aggressive… she really needs to tone down a bit. If you are looking for cheap sample watters dresses, you might be in luck though. Wouldnt recommend altering the dress here based on her pushy personality and horrific reviews. A tiny collection but the dresses looked like they were in a good condition.

As much as I wanted to support small business and shop local for my wedding dress, this was a HUGE mistake!
I found a dress on-​line that I wanted for my casual wedding and one of the distributors listed was Casa Mauricio. My hometown is in Olney, MD and my wedding was out of town, but very personal and locally sourced, so I thought I would give this local dress shop a shot. I work in the wedding industry and I wanted to make sure to support local and small as much as possible!
I ordered my dress in early spring (March) at the shop and, from the owner and the dress was set to arrive a few months before my August wedding so I could get fitted. I didn’t get the dress until 1 week before my wedding and I couldn’t even do a fitting and the dress was baggy in spots. I even ordered a back up dress just in case.
I ended up wearing the dress I ordered from here and when I look at pictures, I get so sad because the dress did not fit as properly as it should!
The stressful and frustrating thing about this situation is that I tried to contact the owner and keep in good communication with her about the missing dress (which I suspect that she didn’t order on time) and her communication was horrible. It was like tracking down a ghost. It honestly was the worst customer service I’ve ever had. Originally, when my mom and I went to the shop we liked her and wanted to support her dream of opening a dress shop and then after we placed the order, she dropped off the face of the earth. It was the strangest, most bizarre, and disappointing experience. Let’s just say that the dress really was lost in the dress factory world (like the owner said) and the order was actually placed on time and ready for my August wedding in June like she said it would be, then why would the owner not want to communicate about the lost dress?
As a business owner, I just had to get the word out there and warn people that if this place is still open, it was really difficult to do business with, so I would recommend going to a more established dress shop, I wish I did!

Yes this establishment is in a barn/​shed. But Julia Elena knows what she is doing! I went along with the bride to this establishment in hopes of seeing the different side of wedding dress shopping (i.e. create your own look and not purchase the trendy dress off the rack). Julia asked the bride several questions about the wedding venue, the brides tastes, and expectations. From this line of questioning, she figured out exactly what the bride was looking for in a dress (and the bride did not give her pictures or descriptions of a dress). There were few dresses to actually try on in the shop itself, but the ones that were there gave the bride a great idea of what base dress to purchase and then how to alter it to make it her own. Watters is not a brand/​designer I am familiar with, but they seem just as quality as the Maggie Soterro and other designer dresses seen at boutiques.

I had a great experience with Casa Mauricio and Julia Elena. I was in a rut and so had very short notice to get a bridesmaid dress for one of my closest friends weddings (the first dress we had all ordered for the wedding turned into a huge fiasco!!!). I looked up a few different places in the area and Julia Elena was the only one to pick up and was able to schedule an appointment with me asap. I got there a little early and was a little thrown off by the place when I got there, so I looked up reviews on here and saw negative reviews so i got a little worried. BUT I was already there so I just stayed and met Julia for my appointment. It is a barn and no dressing room, but it doesn’t matter since it’s just you and her and you have your own area to try on the dresses that is blocked off from the front. Julia Elena was nothing but nice and helpful. She worked with me to get the perfect dress in such short notice. It came in on time, I went in to get it fitted. It only needed small alterations and she did it for me right then so that I wouldn’t be inconvenienced of making another trip there.
I will say, she made the situation of getting a dress asap as easy as possible. She helped me get the perfect dress in the easiest manner.
I would definitely recommend Casa Mauricio!

Visited here to look at Wtoo dresses… and what an experience!
We had a hard time finding this place because, well, it’s in a barn. No joke. We’re talking plywood walls. Upon entering, Julia Elena sat me down and interviewed me to get a better sense of my tastes. She wanted to know about my wedding, my fiancé, my personality. My mom thought it was cute; I thought she was a nut! I don’t need an analysis; I need a dress!
She had a limited selection of only Wtoo and Watters dresses. Many were very beautiful, but her prices were higher than Annapolis Formal and Tuxedo.
Um, also, the dressing area has no curtain, so Julia Elena had to lock us in the store so that no one would enter. I just did not get the sense that this was a legitimate business. I could not get out of there faster!

I just got a professional to look at my dress, and I am now so depressed because this person showed me how flawed my dress is from the work done by Julia Elena.
So in addition to the dress not fitting, she made me aware of the following details that I overlooked because I was so worried that the dress did not fit:
1.) She noticed that the bottom of the dress is not lined up. The back is much shorter than the front.
2.) The dress is also a lot shorter than what I had expected, even though I had my fitting with my actual wedding shoes. I have to wear flats now because the dress barely touches the ground in the back when i’m wearing no shoes.
3.) The hem on the bottom is crocked and curled up.
4.) The dress was taken in awkwardly and caused some of the fabric to bunch up.
Let’s hope that I don’t end up spending more money fixing the dress than the dress is actually worth.
I don’t feel like fighting Julia Elena for my money back because she’ll never admit her fault. I’m just tired of arguing, and having to do so much with this dress. It took me 16 business days to get the $ 50 refund. I’m not sure if it was her or her credit company’s fault, but I’m just tired of the poor service.
I hope that this new lady will be able to fix this mess.