Alterations

 


If you think that your wedding dress may need alterations, and if you do not already have a dressmaker, we can strongly recommend our associate company, Weddings of Watford. Please follow the link to find out more and to arrange your alterations.

Your Dream Dress For Less have also found the yellow pages to be a most helpful tool for finding a dressmaker.

Search Yell.com Please click on the Yell.com Icon to search for dressmakers in your local areas advertising in the Yellow Pages, you will automatically be taken to their home page. Just simple type in the word "dressmaker" and the "area" you want to search.




Tips on Alteration and Fitting Process

  • When choosing your dress maker you may want to get some letters of recommendation from previous customers, to ensure the quality of their work. You don't have to go with the first dressmaker you speak to and may find it useful to shop around, comparing both price and quality of previous work.

  • Wedding dresses are designed to be altered, and many of brides need this service. If you have a dressmaker that you would like to recommend, we would love to recommend them to our other "Brides To Be" by placing them on our links page.

  • Do not be shy to voice any thoughts you may have during a fitting to the dressmaker no matter how insignificant you may think it is. Your fitters and dressmakers are generally experienced and will help in any way they can, and do not look to do alterations for the sake of it. It is to all your advantages if you take some one with you to the fittings to help you make some of the decisions.

  • Ex -Sample dresses that been tried on have a tendency to stretch and therefore may not be an exact representation of the suppliers size chart.

  • Suppliers have the right to change a lace or some part of the dress without prior notification, although this is very rare, it is beyond our control, and we do not accept liability and cannot be held responsible.

  • Where a dress has beads sequins pearls or sew-on additions it is inevitable that during alterations there is a chance of some coming loose. Your dressmakers will probably correct this as part of their service to you. Please ensure that the dress is given a final steam and press before taking it from your dressmaker.

  • We suggest that you take out a specialised "Wedding Insurance" rather than rely on household insurance.

  • Firstly a wedding dress is a specialist garment for a special day.
    It is not just a "frock" that has just been "run up" but has been constructed and designed to achieve the best possible effect from the materials used.

  • Most of the garments (to put it simply) have the fabric, lining and some times double lining, some are boned, and some have lace that is superimposed on top of the fabric, this is like 3 dresses in one. The same criteria may also apply to skirts, which have extra netting and lining, all of which may need altering and/or shortening.

  • Dressmakers, are a rare breed; you may have noticed this by the closure of so many fabric shops, and should you wish to recommend them, we would love to recommend them to further Brides To Be by placing them on our links page.

  • The Bride should ensure that she consults with her dressmaker at her first fitting as to the most suitable Basque/bra and shoes that she will be wearing on the day, before she rushes out and buys something unsuitable. She will need these with her at all subsequent fittings.