Wedding dress alterations

Can you return the dress still?

Some shops allow you to "Exchange", where you can buy another dress instead, generally of a higher price range. I hope you can figure this out.

That's what I'm hoping they'll do @future mrs c. They don't allow exchanges or returns. It's possible they may in this case.

My alterations were $250. If I were you, I would try to take it back or sell it. Go look somewhere else on the rack. $1200 is another dress, or a down payment on a car or a honeymoon trip or ......etc. I think you get the point. Most of all, make sure your next choice is what you want and not what you can afford because these pictures are a lifetime. It's the only time in life where it is socially acceptable to parade around in a big expensive dress.

Can you check with another seamstress? My dress needs a considerable amount of alterations. I haven't gotten the final total but was told to expect 500-$600 worse case scenario. $1200 seems to be excessive unless there's a lot of beading or intricate details. Can we see the dress?

Get another opinion at another seamstress

I guess it depend on the designer. I'm usually 00, and my dress ended up being a 00, with that being said I couldn't gain a pound otherwise it would've been tight. Where I got the dress you had 2 weeks to return it if I didn't look right

They should not have sold you that dress.