I’m not one to get sticker shock easily...

But oh my goodness my alterations bill gave me a good shock lol. I’m not even sure if I can type out how much they were just yet haha. I’ve been on this forum about a year so I’ve seen lots of threads about how much people paid for alterations and always thought ‘wow some of these ladies paid way too much!’ Well ladies I might have 95% of you beat 🙈

My dress is a fit and flare with lace appliqués all over it and I had the following done:

The sides had to be taken in all up and down the dress, the area below the butt had to be taken in, it had to be hemmed and the lace appliqués moved up a little to preserve the lace, the cups had to be taken in, cups added, the beaded straps had to be shortened, some appliqués were puckering and had to be smoothed our and we lowered the back to make it look better. And all of this was done while preserving the lace. So I know it would be expensive, she also had her senior alterations specialist work on my dress because of how technical it was and I’m almost 100% sure no one else would’ve been able to do what she did so it was obviously worth it.

But oh my goodness I did not think I would spend almost as much as the dress on alterations. I hope I’m not the only one out there who’s spent a pretty penny on getting their dress to fit! 🙈 If I see I’m not the only one I’ll post how much it was lol.