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3501 8th Ave S. (back unit off corner of 8th Alley & 35th) Birmingham, AL 35222 615-510-7992

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This beautiful bride came to us worried because sh

This beautiful bride came to us worried because she wasn’t sure if we would have issues making her dress smaller.

It is almost always easier to take something in than to let it out. This however was more complicated because of the buttons, appliqués and beading. We can do almost anything but it comes with a price tag. 🧾

Our number one rule is that dresses leave looking like we never touched them. Yes sometimes there are exceptions, but as a rule of thumb for me and my team, “alterations should be purposeful not placed.”

For us to take this dress in, it was easiest to do at center back. However, it got more time consuming because we had to remove not only the zipper, hook and eye plus original stitching, we also had to sit and hand remove the buttons, appliqués and beading, to then replace them by hand, once we properly took it in. See our process below.

Took In CENTER BACK :

1. Removed original stitching, zipper, hook and eye, buttons (12), beading, appliques & tags on lining and self fabric.

2. Measured and took in center back of garment as pinned in fitting on lining and self fabric.

3. Replaced stitching, zipper, and hook and eye by machine on self and lining.

4. Buttons (12), appliques & tags replaced by hand on self fabric.

Olivia came to us needing to have us let her dress

Olivia came to us needing to have us let her dress out. I told her this was possible. But we may run into an issue with prediction notches. Hence cuts into the fabric used during prediction to match and allow the pattern pieces to align while sewing.

The "hole" you see in the first picture, is the production notch. We ran into this issue because we had to use the seam allowance and move back the sew line.

How did we fix this? Welp, this fabric, the what look like appliques, are actually woven into this fabric, not allowing us to simply remove one without notice. I ended up cutting a couple of shapes out from the seam allowance of the train, to then create a handmade applique. This 3 part applique was used to cover the production notch.

Viola! Anything is possible, but things do come with a price tag. Olivia, THANK YOU for trusting us with your gown. Cheers to love!! ❤️

Not only do we work with brides, we also love help

Not only do we work with brides, we also love helping their moms out too! Whether it be a Custom Mother of the Bride/Mother of the Groom dress, reinventing a dress for them, or simply doing an alteration. 👗

We offer a really special Mother and Daughter alteration experience, where the mom and bride can come in together and simultaneously get their alterations done. 👭

Here we added some netting for more coverage, allowing mom to feel more comfortable.🧵

Karen:
Here we helped Karen, a mother of the bride with two simple things: Bringing up the shoulders and adding coverage at the bust.

You can see we gave a couple different options of coverage:
1. We pulled the center of the dress together.
2. I added a nude netting, 4 layers is what was decided on, to allow the dress to lay as designed but this adds coverage without looking placed.

My goal is to always have things look purposeful not placed. ❤️

6 years married, 11 together. People don’t think

6 years married, 11 together. People don’t think it’s possible but we have literally been through it all.

We’ve been together through covid, thank goodness we quarantined together- and no I didn’t want to shoot him. I’ve never been so happy to be forced to spend time together- we both agreed it has brought us closer than ever.

Last year was the worst year for the both of us- so for me at least 2020 has been good. I know 99% of you think I’m nuts but you have literally no idea whaat we’ve been through. and am simply grateful for 2020.

Cheers to love! And may everyone find it. ❤️