How to find a new wedding dress tailor after yours closes
Finding a new local seamstress becomes urgent when your original tailor shuts down unexpectedly, especially if traveling hours away after a move is out of the question. Bringing the dress to a closer area prevents the exhaustion of long-distance travel and ensures you can actually manage fitting appointments amidst the stress of relocation.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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- 1Having a family member pick up the dress and finding a new local seamstress for any remaining adjustmentsDid this help you?
- 2Buying dresses off the rack or as samplesDid this help you?
- 3Ordering from alternative online retailers like AzazieDid this help you?
- 4Buying second-hand dresses online through platforms like Stillwhite and paying only for minor alterationsDid this help you?
- 5Paying rush fees for designer ordersDid this help you?
- 6bustling the train instead of removing itDid this help you?
- 7considering cutting the dress with scissors on the day of the weddingDid this help you?
- 8Showing up in person at the new location to demand progress updates or retrieve the dressDid this help you?
- 9Bringing a companion along to avoid feeling intimidatedDid this help you?
- 10Taking the dress elsewhere to finish the remaining workDid this help you?
- 11Paying high specialty fees to professional seamstresses for steamingDid this help you?
- 12Accepting minor wrinkles or imperfections due to lack of timeDid this help you?
- 13Avoiding experimental DIY methods like shower steam at the last minuteDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“My wedding dress is raw silk, and every step of the process (buying it, getting it altered), I never knew that steaming that type of fabric is apparently next to impossible.”source ↗
“She sent me a photo and the dress looks really good, but the bottom portion (I’d say if I had it on, maybe from my knees down where it would fall) it is definitely wrinkled.”source ↗
“I guess this is a bit of a womp womp post as im just bummed out and hoping its not too noticeable on the wedding day.”source ↗
“This is probably an extremely dumb question, but I’m trying to figure out the latest I can go dress shopping before the wedding without it majorly limiting my choices.”source ↗
“I’m still pretty unhappy with my body and chub (entirely my fault, I’m working on it), so I wanted to postpone dress shopping until I lost some more weight and felt better about my figure.”source ↗
“I keep getting insane quotes from tailors to do this - Does anyone know how much making the bottom of this dress all the same should realistically cost? Has anyone else done this to their dress successfully?”source ↗
“She moved locations without informing customers.”source ↗
“No response. I had a typo in the text so I sent it again apologizing and correcting the typo. No response.”source ↗
“Honestly my heart hurts so bad and I want to walk in there and ask for my dress back immediately.”source ↗
“go and try on the dress and if it needs any additional alterations bring them to a different seamstress in a closer area, that sounds the most reasonable”source ↗
“that plan makes total sense honestly 3 hours each way right after moving is a nightmare, you will be living out of boxes and probably exhausted”source ↗
“I was stressed when I heard that on my first dress try on few weeks ago.”source ↗
“I just don’t know how to go in there and be like umm? Where’s my dress? Or what to say or even what to do.”source ↗
“Now I have already been charged $2200 (more than the cost of the dress) to cut off the train, hem the dress, and taken it in slightly.”source ↗
“At my last fitting, with the wedding in a couple of weeks, all of a sudden the armholes are too high.”source ↗
“I’m frustrated. I know I was overcharged to begin with but I just don’t want to pay any more money.”source ↗
Where this came up
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