$450 for alterations?

As soon as you said 4 layers, I saw $$$$$
That sounds about right

That is high. Mostly that would be about $350.

Usually on a dress like yours, where possible it is cut along an all around seam, near your waist, and the skirt pulled up a couple of inches, and reattached, essentially taking care of the 2-4 inches of hemming without having to touch the 4 layers of skirt hem, or any lace edgings. It comes out of the top of the skirt. In your case, that would also raise the top of where the skirt starts to flare higher on your thighs, where it belongs, and not as low as it is now nearly at your knees. It is not a mermaid, it is a trumpet skirt. Mermaids flare lower of at the knooe. Trumpets low to mid thigh. It creates a nicer curve for your body proportions having the top of the flare be in the right place. It is also a Time saver on the one redo at the top, not multiple hand rolled hems.

$400-500 for all of that? That is an incredibly good deal!

Totally just depends on the the dress. Mine is a lot more than that because my dress as so many layers and she has to take it apart. For what you’re getting done it seems like it’s in the right price range 💝

Dress is gorgeous but there’s lots of details. Details = more costly to alter.

Sounds about average to me.

I got quoted for 700 she said it could be a little more or less. That would include hem bustle taking the dress in on the sides adding cups

My seamstress said it would cost around 7 to 800 depending on layers and material.

Wedding 2020!!!

My dress sounds pretty similar and I’m having a bodice put in mine and she quoted me around 700$.

That’s pretty affordable. My hem is that price alone.

My bustle was $75 but if I had wanted to hem my dress it would have costed $350!

Sadly, very normal!

Wow that's like buying a whole new dress to me it's expensive i know it depends on what needed to get done but yeah type pricey

When I got my dress, I was told the hem was expensive. Look how much material it has! I’m getting a corset added for $75 and a bustle for $20. You may want to shop around.

Seems about right, mine was 280. I had to have the lace removed and darted in the back to fix the shoulders $85. I also had 2 layers hemmed $75 a piece and was going to have to have the tulle trimmed $25, but was able to knock that off. I may have missed a few things so I included my break down that she gave me.

I paid $140 for sleeves and they quoted me $350 to hem it.

That’s a steep price ... but you want a very snatched fit so do what you have to do b

My appointment was Monday an they hit me with 489. Smfh