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I got my dress back from alterations the other day and am super excited! I bought my dress for a great price and had an outside alteration shop do the following: Take off the tan sash and replace it with the sparkling crystal sash, remove the straps, put on a sweetheart neckline, take it in 4 sizes, and put a corset back on. I need to find a slip still to poof it out more on the bottom but you get the point!

Before alterations:

After (with veil!):

wow, that is a beautiful dress!!!!!!!!!  Great alterations!!! 

@Lisamr: Just the sweetheart neckline was I think a little under $75. 

WOW! 

Gorgeous!

@MissTatas: I was looking forever for a crystal sash. I went to local bridal shops (they wanted $1,000 and up for one...insane!), fabric stores, etc. I finally found my sash on Etsy for under $50! 

It looks awesome, congrats!!

@kitzy: I bought it from Daniel12. She had a couple to choose from. I also bought the veil from Etsy for $20 ;). 

@ellabee: Thanks! I was nervous when I bought the dress because it had to have so many changes to it. Everyone thought I was getting it done so soon but to have so many changes to the dress, I wanted to make sure it came out right just in case I would have to go get another one real quick lol.

WOWZA! Great job!

@MrsGruber23: The dress was $100 and alterations was around $400 for everything (including bustle). It was more than the dress but that was the idea going into the project. I knew it would take a lot of rework to make the dress how I wanted it! The most expensive thing was to sew on the crystal sash becauase they had to do it by hand.

@Aubergold: Haha I know! They are amazing despite the language barrier we had. We made it work though with a lot of picture showing.

@trugem: It was a..eh em...guy! A seamster or whatever you would properly call him hehe. ;)

@MrsGruber23: I hear that a lot so I went to a private seamster who I was referred to by the bridal shop I went to. If I bought my dress from DB, it would have been $1K then an extra $400-$500 for a slight alteration.

Thanks ladies :) I can sleep good at night now knowing that my dress came out ok lol. I was pretty nervous but having my dress altered exactly how I wanted it was exciting! Now I gotta find some shoes....

@crebre80: Thanks :). I knew I had to have the crystal belt because I always pictured my dress having some type of bling on it. And I looked FOREVER...I think it took longer to find an affordable crystal belt than the actual dress!