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Mother of the Bride

Fail

An estimated 21.1% of orders come back, so Mother of the Bride is a Fail.

Flapen Score
48
48 / 100
Top 37% of 16,930 Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry niches · +3 vs the category median of 45
Market size
$121K/yr3.0M searches / yr
90-day growth
-5.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
9%top-5 click share · 113 brands · 233 sellers

Flapen Score

Mother of the Bride against its category

The dotted line is the Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry average. Past it, Mother of the Bride is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

48Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Mother of the Bride market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Mother of the Bride 3.0M times last year and spent an estimated $121K. The top 5 brands take 45% of clicks. Demand peaks in Apr–May. Flapen scores it 48 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 0.1% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 3.0M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 0.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -5.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $121K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
3.0M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-5.1%
Conversion, latest week
0.1%
Market size, estimated
$121Ka year
Peak month
April3.0× the quietest month
Top search term
alex evenings dresses471K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $81.83.

Listings sell for $81.83 on average, from $11.25 to $397.61. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 3K to 4K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $81.83 that is $0 to $8K a year per listing.

Average price
$81.83inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$11.25–$397.61
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
3K–4K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$8K
Returns
21.1%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads.

91% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 62% ship with Prime. On an average day, 8.5% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #3,589 within Dresses. It carries 954 reviews at 4.11 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
91%
Prime listings
62%
Out of stock, average day
8.5%
Average rank
#3,589in Dresses
Average rating
4.11 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
954per listing
Listings tracked
374

04 · Newcomers

7 of last year's 186 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

186 products launched here in the last 12 months. 7 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 30 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
186
Successful launches
7Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
30 months

Products

Top Mother of the Bride products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

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Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take only 9% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

113 rising

Sellers

233

Top-5 brand share

45%

Top 20: 68%

Top-5 click share

9%

Top 20: 23%

Open market

62%

  • Brand 114%
  • Brand 27%
  • Brand 36%
  • Brand 46%
  • Brand 53%
  • Brand 62%

Demand

Mother of the Bride search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

100K60KHoliday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Apr, May · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.0×

Search terms

Top Mother of the Bride search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • alex evenings dresses471K/yr
  • grandmother of the bride dresses486K/yr
  • plus size mother of the bride dresses293K/yr
  • mother of the bride226K/yr
  • mother of the bride dresses plus size131K/yr
  • grandmother of the groom dresses167K/yr
  • alex evenings dresses mother of the bride137K/yr
  • tea length mother of the bride dresses86K/yr
  • alex evenings131K/yr
  • high end mother of bride dresses158K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Mother of the Bride

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

28%of positive reviews mention “Size-Overall”
24%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
21.1%of orders come back
“Run large”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”24% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Mother of the Bride questions

Answered from the same tracked data.