Chances are, if you are purchasing your wedding dress from a retailer, then it will not fit the first time you try it on. I know when I was trying on wedding dresses, I had to have someone grab the extra fabric and pull it tighter so that I could see what it would look like after the wedding dress alterations were completed. While I was shopping, I was already shocked by just how much a wedding dress would cost me, and then I saw a chart of how much they charged for wedding dress alterations. It was going to be several hundred dollars just to do a few wedding dress alterations. Now don’t get me wrong, I understand that wedding dresses have a lot of beading and detail to deal with and lots of layers of fabric, but thats a lot of money when you’re also purchasing a wedding dress for close to or over a thousand dollars. Remember that just because you are getting married, it doesn’t give vendors the right to charge you ten times more than what something is worth. So, here are some handy alternatives for having some wedding dress alterations done that won’t break the bank.
Wedding Dress Alterations from a Trusted Tailor
If you only have a few wedding dress alterations that need to be done, such as maybe a hemline or other small change to be made, then you could take it by a trusted tailor for the necessary wedding dress alterations. Before you leave your dress, make sure that they have some kind of experience doing wedding dress alterations, or you could be in a pickle when you come back for your dress. If it is something simple like a hem though, your trusted alteration shop or tailor should work just fine.
Wedding Dress Alterations from a Seamstress
Another great idea to get your wedding dress alterations done is to find a seamstress who specializes in wedding dresses. For example, I chose to design my own wedding dress with a trusted seamstress who can create beautiful wedding dresses. Not only that, but she also can do wedding alterations for ladies who purchase their wedding dress from a shop, and the result is perfection. The best way to find an independent seamstress who can do wedding dress alterations is by word of mouth, but you can also ask around at some sewing or fabric shops. They’re sure to have some business cards of seamstresses who use their shop that they can hand out.
Most people advise that you only use the in-house wedding dress alterations because any other seamstress or tailor will not do a good job and destroy your dress. My opinion, if you have a trusted tailor or seamstress who you know that can sew, talk to them seriously and see if they have any experience with wedding dress alterations. It could save you a lot of money in the end. I know I saved a ton. And I didn’t have my wedding dress alterations done by an in house seamstress.
One thing you’ll want to look into once you get back from your honeymoon is your wedding dress preservation. Wedding dress preservation is a cleaning process typically done by some dry cleaners that is meant to thoroughly clean your wedding dress and get it ready for storage so that you can keep your wedding dress in prime condition for many years to come. Wedding dress preservation typically isn’t very expensive, and if you want to keep your wedding dress around for many years to come, either to use it later for a daughter or just as a souvenir of your wedding day. Wedding dress preservation will help to keep your wedding dress to be just as beautiful as it was on the day that you wore it. Here are some frequently asked questions about wedding dress preservation and some great storage tips for keeping your wedding dress in top condition.
Personally, I hate the strapless wedding dress. And yet, they seem to be all of the rage these days. In my college and now post college days, I have seen more brides in a white strapless dress then any other kind of wedding dress that I can recall. Just look in the marriage announcement section of your newspaper, and you’re sure to see over half if not all of the brides pictured to be wearing a strapless wedding dress. Whatever happened to variety? There are so many elegant necklines available, why does it seem like every bride out there is getting married in a strapless wedding dress? But I digress. When I was doing my wedding planning, the last kind of wedding dress that I wanted was a strapless wedding dress. Yet when I went to bridal shops, it seemed only strapless wedding dresses were offered, with the occasional long sleeved monstrosity or halter. So, in my opinion, here are three reasons why the strapless wedding dress should be avoided.
It seems beneficial that after a certain amount of time we should look back on all of the helpful articles that have been provided in the past. With the multitude of articles available on this site, sometimes it can be quite difficult to locate the article that you need at a particular point in your wedding planning. With 25 plus categories and over 110 helpful articles, there is a lot of information to sort through to find what you are looking for. So I thought I’d look back over the last few months and put some of our most popular and helpful wedding dress articles all here in one place for you to look at, and easily look at the articles which will help you the most. So without further ado, here are the Top 5 Wedding Dress articles for us here at Wedding Help.The headings are links to the different articles, and they won’t close the screen you’re in, so read away!
If you have been wedding dress shopping, I’m sure that you have found that besides a few minor differences, most wedding shops have the same wedding dresses over and over again. Nearly all of them are strapless wedding dresses with large full skirts and lots of beading. Not only did I not want a strapless wedding dress, I wanted a wedding dress that was somewhat modest. I didn’t want to show off a bunch of cleavage, and with me being so short, feel like everyone was looking down my dress the whole time. Not long into my wedding dress searching, I decided that I wanted to create my own wedding dress, with everything that I wanted. You can create your own wedding dress just as easy, trust me. With technology being the way it is, being able to create your own wedding dress is getting easier than ever. Let me explain what I mean, and how easy it can be to create your own wedding dress.
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