When Meaghan Brunetti, owner of NordeBridal, was preparing for her own wedding she grew more and more frustrated with the limited choice of dresses. “I had a rough time as a fashion forward person, she recalls. “Everything was very traditional. There were no options for brides who were more laid back and not princesses.”
Meaghan saw a gap in the marketplace. She opened her own bridal shop, Norde Bridal (formerly The Handmade Bride), in 2013. “I’m born to be an entrepreneur and have an extremely creative mind,” she says.
Her studies in environmental science at the University of Ottawa did little to prepare her for this business, but her demanding work as an executive assistant in the federal government taught her valuable skills. “You are constantly putting out fires and making things look easy to your boss,” she says. Now she makes the wedding dress-buying experience easy and stress-free for brides-to-be.
