Wedding Planning Update #22B - Alterations II/Dress is done!
While my poor fellow brides-to-be are having less success with their alterations, mine are completely done! (I’m so sorry girls!) As I’ve said before, with the corset back, barely anything needed to be re-fitted from gain/loss of weight, so all I really needed was to take the hem up from 6′ girl to 5.5′ girl. (And that’s my tangent suggestion for anyone still looking for their dress - go for the corset back!)
The seamstress was super-nice, great to work with, and relatively inexpensive. Mostly she just had to hem my dress, and work on the “getting the train off the floor” problem. She’s made a lovely hand/wrist hold that doesn’t seem too heavy. In addition to that, she put a french bustle on the back, which is a bit difficult to figure out. However, she showed me where the hooks and loops are - so I’ll have to show all my girls before August how everything fits together. Since it’s a bit complicated I joked that if I get sick of holding the back of my dress up, I just have to make sure to find one of them before they’re too drunk to help me! 
So to summarize - I’ve got my dress which is ready to go, and I still have money in my wallet. And now I’m golden for the big day!
