Alteration costs?

Hard to say! It will depend on the style of the dress, as certain falls and embellishments will make it difficult to alter.

Its very plain grecian style almost maxi dress at the front with a long train on it.

Not a great pic but theres an idea if anyone can help me

There's a lady in mansfield I used her prices are amazing if it's not too far out I'll dig her contact details out for you?

It might vary quite a lot but at the shop I've had my dress on to make my dress smaller on the top it's costing £125 and she said to shorten would be £75. My dress is tulle bottom so that might make a difference. I'm a shorty (5'1') but I'm wearing skyscraper shoes to save the pennies! X

If you could dig the details out, I would really appreciate that! Thanks!

Im on a 4inch block on that pic and I'm not wearing heels for my wedding for 2 reasons

1- i want to be comfy

2- my H2B is the same height as me bar about 2 inches lol x

Same here! I'm 5'2" but I am only wearing kitten heels. No way in hell I am crippling myself or breaking an ankle.

It's a pretty plain dress, simple fall, I would say as long as whoever you send it to has a dressmakers dummy it wouldn't be problematic to adjust. They might want you to pop it on so they can get the length perfect. I'll go with the above quote and say around £75ish, possibly as high as £125. As you said on your first post it's dependant on area.

You will probably need to get it dry cleaned after it is returned too - most seamstresses are amazing but white is a pain in the butt not to get any marks on. Better to be safe than sorry!!

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Hello fellow Nottingham Lady ? I've had my dress from Beau Belles in Borrowash (Derby), which isn't too far for me to travel but I suppose it depends on which side of Nottingham you are, and they said alterations would be £20?! Although I'm wondering if that's because I bought the dress there? May be worth asking though? Does the shop where you got your dress do alterations?

Hello fellow Nottingham Lady ? I've had my dress from Beau Belles in Borrowash (Derby), which isn't too far for me to travel but I suppose it depends on which side of Nottingham you are, and they said alterations would be £20?! Although I'm wondering if that's because I bought the dress there? May be worth asking though? Does the shop where you got your dress do alterations?

Most places will alter a dress you buy from them at a nominal charge. I've had ones done for free before for balls and parties. It's always more expensive to get something altered elsewhere.

Ohhhh im in Long Eaton so not far at all!!

I've bought my dress from a factory outlet so unfortunately they don't do alterations

i may well have to contact them

thank you for that ☺️ xx

Mine cost just over £200 but the top needed taking in about 3 sizes and I needed about 9 inches of the bottom, but my dress has lots of layers and beading detail. If you only need the length shortening I can't imagine it would cost too much.

I'm paying £45 for the lady to pull it in at the boobs (fits everywhere else), turn it up ever so slightly at the front (so it doesn't catch on the carpet, put a hook and eye at the back to bustle it up for the evening and have the jacket altered at the top as it sits too high on my neck. I thought it would be more than that tbh!

The lady is in Belper, Derbyshire so about 40mins from middle of Nottingham... Her name is Kay Hobson if you want to contact her. She made princess Anne's dress when Peter was christened!!

I went to a bridal seamstress recommended by my dress shop, cost £100 to take up the hem (lace).

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She is not doing anything much structural to my dress - changing something to do with the zip function and just doing some light beeding work on the dress as few beads had come off shes also adding something blue in one of the under skirts also my hoop was far too short so shes adding 12 inches of material there - shes only charging £25!!

She is a lovely lady - so honest too i put my dress on thinking i needed something taken from the bottom, but instead of taking the work and just faffing about ever so slightly at the bottom she told me not to as the hoop would kick it up fine

The shop I bought my dress from did my alterations for me. I only had the length taken up and it cost £40

I had the dress shortened, shoulders brought up & a bustle added - it cost me £125 from the shop where I brought the dress.

I am in Essex x