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I went in for my second fitting to make sure all the alterations were done correctly. Turned out they missed something so a week to go, they need to get back to work. That caused me some stress but I stood there patiently while she pulled the dress in/pinned and cut out the previous sewing. All of a sudden I had this huge pain in my arm! Turns out she missed the dress entirely and stabbed/slashed my wrist with the scissors she was using to cut the stitching! It hurt soo badly and not only that, I looked down and now have LOTS of blood all over the front of my dress!!!

I am trying not to panic and I kept my cool and didn't lose it on the lady, even though I wanted to, but OMG I'm freaking out inside that my dress is ruined! Is blood really hard to get out? They had me take it off immediately to clean it but I'm so scared that a week before my wedding I'm now out a dress. She said she would call me as soon as they are done cleaning it and assured me it'll come out but I'm still worried.

Has anyone else had this happen? Did it come out? I need help calming down :(

Thanks for listening!

She said she would call me tonight to give me an update. I don't know how they clean it or anything she just kind of panicked and kept apologizing and scurried off with my dress. They made sure I was okay, which I am other than the massive bandage on my wrist. But if I don't hear from them in the next few hours I'll call back to check. I'm trying to keep myself busy but I'm freaking out. My poor FI was so concerned because I came home just bawling my eyes out. :(

@bells: I know, I was prepared for the possible pinprick but she was trying to use the scissors to loosen a thread and then jerked backwards she hit my wrist when the scissors were open and they stabbed me. It's not a deep stab or anything, but cut pretty good hence the blood mess. (gross sorry!)

@HardyPooleParty: Yeah I'm praying it will come out but if it isn't good as new when she calls (and I will be going in to verify this) then I will have to find a back up plan. I'm trying to push that thought out of my head until I know for sure but I will definitely be requiring them to fix the problem if it doesn't come out.

@hisgoosiegirl: Nope, no stitches thank goodness. It's not a horrible cut but it hit at a weird spot that just immediately started bleeding and I was so concerned with the pain that I didn't even realize it was on my dress until it had gotten all over it. Luckily it isn't smeared (sorry this is a gross subject at least to me lol) but just big drops all over ther front so I'm hoping that will make it a bit easier to get out.

@Zinzerena: lol thank you for trying to cheer me up, it definitely put a smile on my face :) And happy soon to be birthday to your Daughter!

I'm sure they won't have a problem getting it out, since it was immediately after.  So sorry this happened :(

Good on you for not losing it on the poor woman - I can't imagine how worried and guilty she must already feel!

Oh my goodness! That's so terrible.  I'm sure it will be okay.  Blood definitely comes out of fabric and the sooner you treat the better.  So it's excellent that they got it off you to be cleaned immediately.  Let us know how it works out. 

have they contacted you with an update?? what a nightmare! so sorry to hear this!

OH no :( I hope everything will be fine. Will be keeping my fingers crossed!

Damn. That sucks. My seamstress accidentally stabbed herself with a pin and got some blood on my dress at my first fitting. It came out immediately with no visible residue when she used hydrogen peroxide. Your dress should be fine.

Wow, thanks so much for all the support and well wishes, I really appreciate it!

So an update. I went in this morning (barely slept at all!!) and am sooo relieved to find that all the stains came out. We were lucky that they were able to treat it right away but there is definitely nothing visible on the dress so I can finally breathe. My wrist still hurts this morning when I move it but I put a ton of polysporin on it and it seems to be getting better. Hopefully it won't scar.

And the manager was there this morning to apologize profusely about what happened and she's agreed to pay for all of the alterations so that was good. My wrist will definitely heal, and there's no longer any damage to the dress soI guess there is a happy ending :) Lesson learned, keep arms far away from the seamstress!

Thanks again to everyone for all your support and for helping me calm down yesterday!