THE Oxfam bridal suite in the centre of Chippenham has become the talk of the town after the shop appeared on a special episode of hit TV show Say Yes To The Dress last week.

Staff at the shop on The Bridge have been inundated with appointments from brides-to-be after the charity shop special hosted by wedding dress designer David Emanuel was aired on Friday.

“It was really good to see it on the TV,” manager Karen Emm-Fennell, who has worked in the shop for 12 years, said. “I think Chippenham came across really well as well.

“We have done really well out of it. It is all everybody is talking about and it has definitely given some of the staff much more confidence.

“We are taking lots more appointments and although it is early days I think we are selling more dresses.”

The charity shop special, which was renamed Say Yes To The Dress For Less that week, focused on three brides-to-be and their dream dresses; one designer, one vintage and one budget and Mrs Emm-Fennell thinks the format helped show off the variety of their racks.

“The format of the show definitely helped,” she said. “They tried on a ‘bad’ dress first and then a ‘good’ dress and every bride wants to have that good experience.

“We have a very relaxed atmosphere here and we aren’t as formal as other bridal suites. I don’t think people realise how lucky they are to have somewhere like this on their doorstep and even if we didn’t have the dress they wanted in at the time, we probably would in a few weeks time and we’d let them know through our follow-up service.”

The experience was so joyous for staff at Oxfam that the manager left up part of the set in the suite in the hope that the production company will give them a call in the future.

“We would do it again in a heartbeat,” she said. “The camera crew erected another curtain in the suite to make the changing room bigger for the show and I’ve left it up in the hope that we might get another visit soon.”

The Say Yes To The Dress For Less episode is available on catch up otherwise the series continues every Friday on TLC from 9pm.