How Much Does Personal Shopping Actually Cost? A Real Breakdown

Most personal shopping and styling websites make you fill out a form and wait for a reply before you find out what anything actually costs. That's a real barrier for a lot of people, understandably, nobody wants to book a call just to find out a service is out of their budget. So here's the actual, current pricing at House of Melinda, with no vague "contact for a quote."

The full breakdown

Style Consultation: Free A 20 to 30 minute call to talk through your goals and see if it's a fit. No charge, no obligation, and no pressure to book anything after.

Wardrobe Audit: $95 A full closet review, in person or virtual, that follows your consultation. This includes a written style summary, and there's no separate charge tacked on for the consultation that comes before it.

Personal Shopping: $70/hour In-store or online, typically booked in 3-hour sessions, which works out to $210 for a full session. The pre-session style questionnaire and silhouette guidance are both included in that rate, not billed as add-ons.

Full Wardrobe Package: $450 Bundles the audit with two shopping sessions and a follow-up check-in, at a flat package rate rather than the sum of each piece booked separately. A payment plan is available, and it includes follow-up outfit photos.

Corporate & Group: From $300 Workshops and team styling sessions, scoped to group size, at a flat group rate. Every attendee gets a take-home style guide, and there are no per-person surprises on the invoice.

Ongoing monthly consulting is also available for anyone who wants continuous support rather than a single session, pricing is worked out based on goals and frequency.

Why "per hour" numbers alone don't tell the full story

A $70 an hour rate sounds straightforward, but the real number that matters is what you're actually paying for a full session once every included extra is accounted for. Comparable personal styling in Toronto typically runs $75 to $150 or more an hour, and it's common for the consultation, style questionnaire, or silhouette guidance to be billed as separate add-ons on top of that hourly rate. Add those up and two services that look similar on paper can end up with a meaningfully different total by the time you're actually booked in.

At House of Melinda, the questionnaire and silhouette guidance are already part of the $70/hour personal shopping rate, and the consultation before a Wardrobe Audit doesn't add anything to the $95 price. The number you see is the number on the invoice.

Which option actually makes sense for your budget

• Just want a gut check before spending on anything? Start with the free consultation. There's no cost to finding out whether it's worth going further.
• Know your closet needs a real look, but not sure what to buy? The $95 Wardrobe Audit is the lowest-cost way to get a concrete, written plan.
• Ready to actually shop, with a plan already in place? A 3-hour Personal Shopping session runs $210, and includes everything needed to make that time count.
• Want the audit and the shopping done together, with follow-up built in? The Full Wardrobe Package at $450 is a flat bundle rate for all of it, and a payment plan is available if that works better for your budget.
• Booking for a team or company? Corporate and group sessions start at $300, flat rate, regardless of headcount within the scoped group size.

The real question isn't just "how much," it's "what's included"

The cheapest hourly rate isn't necessarily the best value if half the actual work, the questionnaire, the silhouette guidance, the summary you keep, ends up billed separately once you're already committed. Worth comparing the full, real cost of a session, not just the number in the headline, before deciding what fits your budget.

Not sure which option is right for you yet?

That's exactly what the free consultation is for, a real conversation about your goals and budget, with zero pressure to book anything after.