East Meets Dress

How I Built A Six Figure Business Bringing Asian Culture To The American Wedding Industry

December 24th, 2019
Vivian Chan
Founder, East Meets Dress
$50K
revenue/mo
2
Founders
0
Employees
East Meets Dress
from San Francisco, California, USA
started July 2018
$50,000
revenue/mo
2
Founders
0
Employees
market size
$73.3B
starting costs
$13.7K
gross margin
35%
time to build
210 days
average product price
$1631
growth channels
SEO
business model
content-library
best tools
Wix.com, Coda, Stickermule
time investment
Full time
pros & cons
35 Pros & Cons
tips
5 Tips
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Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

Hello! My name is Vivian and I’m one of the co-founders of East Meets Dress. We’re the first modern fashion company to bring Asian-American representation and inclusion to the traditional wedding industry by combining contemporary cultural designs, quality craftsmanship, and a dedicated customer experience.

We’re in a pretty niche market in a large industry. Our core products are our Chinese wedding dresses (known as cheongsams or qipaos), but we also have a collection of men’s outfits, dress accessories, wedding favors, and mother of the bride/groom dresses that now make up around 30% of our revenue.

When we first started, we were targeting Asian-American brides in the U.S (and that’s still our core customer base), but as we continued to build our company, we started getting inquiries from brides around the world (e.g., Canada, Australia, and Europe), brides marrying into Chinese culture, as well as high school students looking to wear...

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