Brides that have some fitting appointments…how did it go?

I took both my veil and my shoes. I LOVED how the dress fit me once it was altered. I lost a decent amount of weight so it had to be taken in 2 sizes from when I originally tried the dress on.

We initially expected daughter's dress fitting to be a slam dunk...and figured the only significant alteration would be the bustle. The dress was a little big in the bust, but we thought that would be an easy (cheap?) fix. LOL It ended up being more involved than we expected. I think she ended up having at least 4 appointments and costs nearly doubled (from the $250 initial estimate to about $475, as I remember). The sticking point was getting the bust tight enough so that she was held securely in the dress AND the bodice didn't wrinkle below her chest. The final solution was to add two different sets of pads to the bodice, one pushing up from below and one smaller set filling a small gap above her breasts. She's naturally a 36DD, so the LAST thing she expected to need was additional padding, but it worked perfectly! The padding held her tightly within the boning of the dress and lifted her chest enough so that the bodice didn't wrinkle. The alternative was that they completely remade the bodice; which would have cost hundreds more and once they did it, there'd be no going back. If you have a good alterations team, ask a lot of questions and engage them in conversations about your options. Good luck!

We initially expected daughter's dress fitting to be a slam dunk...and figured the only significant alteration would be the bustle. The dress was a little big in the bust, but we thought that would be an easy (cheap?) fix. LOL It ended up being more involved than we expected. I think she ended up having at least 4 appointments and costs nearly doubled (from the $250 initial estimate to about $475, as I remember). The sticking point was getting the bust tight enough so that she was held securely in the dress AND the bodice didn't wrinkle below her chest. The final solution was to add two different sets of pads to the bodice, one pushing up from below and one smaller set filling a small gap above her breasts. She's naturally a 36DD, so the LAST thing she expected to need was additional padding, but it worked perfectly! The padding held her tightly within the boning of the dress and lifted her chest enough so that the bodice didn't wrinkle. The alternative was that they completely remade the bodice; which would have cost hundreds more and once they did it, there'd be no going back. If you have a good alterations team, ask a lot of questions and engage them in conversations about your options. Good luck!

I took my veil, shoes and bouquet to see the desired effect. I added sleeves, got it taken in by my arms, and got a bustle. I loved the end result!