Be Bella Boutique — Local services in Fruit Cove

Dress shopping is hard. Especially for a 13 year old lady that never wears dresses. Enter the Winter Formal. Now the Dress-Less 13 year old beauty has to find a dress. After the mall (5 stores), a boutique store, a stop for tacos (because tacos give the hangry 13 year old beauty hope for finding a dress she likes), and then 3 discount stores.... no dress. I remembered this room in the back of the consignment shop in the back of the ANTEEK store on Blanding across from the Ace Hardware. Tucked in the corner, hidden among the chiffon, lace, and tulle was a GEM of a dress, emerald velvet that just hugged my 13 year old beauty in a way that makes a mom's heart soar (and sink a little at how grown she is) and makes 13 year old beauty genuinely smile after 8 hours of shopping. Need something, stop at Be Bella first. Sometimes she even...

So cute inside. Organized by color and style but not by size which makes it very overwhelming where to even begin. The store is entirely too large to look through everything looking for your size. Many things didn't even have prices. Owner seemed to be talkative and nice to some customers... The prices were a bit high. Even the sale stuff was priced too high. It definitely...

Every time I go, I'm treated like I'm the most important person :-) There's always so much to try on and (huge selection!) and Becky is so on top of it all. I can be looking at one thing and she'll come up with a piece I hadn't seen yet tho try on -- and it's PERFECT! This has happened a few times so it's not a fluke -- she's...