Help! Can I go from a UK 10 to an 8 in 10 weeks?!

segacs

HeidiMightyRawr wrote: »

I'd certainly give it a go, but maybe as a back up, have the option of someone to make last minute alterations if necessary.

Don't wait until the last minute for alterations! Take the dress in now -- it's already cutting it close -- and have it altered to fit you now.

peleroja

segacs wrote: »

HeidiMightyRawr wrote: »

I'd certainly give it a go, but maybe as a back up, have the option of someone to make last minute alterations if necessary.

Don't wait until the last minute for alterations! Take the dress in now -- it's already cutting it close -- and have it altered to fit you now.

The wedding industry definitely wants you to think that 10 weeks is "last minute" for dress alterations, but I know, for example, that my regular tailor would be more than comfortable and competent doing a wedding dress alteration in a week or two if necessary. She should certainly be making contingency plans (finding a tailor who can and will alter if it can be altered) but I just don't understand why everything attached to "wedding" takes 10x as long and is 3x as expensive as for any other occasion.

I dunno. Maybe I'm the wrong person to give advice on this one as I bought my dress online without trying it on from the David's $99 clearance and the way people get in a such a huge flap about wedding dresses baffles me.

Tubbs216

peleroja wrote: »

segacs wrote: »

HeidiMightyRawr wrote: »

I'd certainly give it a go, but maybe as a back up, have the option of someone to make last minute alterations if necessary.

Don't wait until the last minute for alterations! Take the dress in now -- it's already cutting it close -- and have it altered to fit you now.

The wedding industry definitely wants you to think that 10 weeks is "last minute" for dress alterations, but I know, for example, that my regular tailor would be more than comfortable and competent doing a wedding dress alteration in a week or two if necessary. She should certainly be making contingency plans (finding a tailor who can and will alter if it can be altered) but I just don't understand why everything attached to "wedding" takes 10x as long and is 3x as expensive as for any other occasion.

I dunno. Maybe I'm the wrong person to give advice on this one as I bought my dress online without trying it on from the David's $99 clearance and the way people get in a such a huge flap about wedding dresses baffles me.

I agree. I think they do it to add to the mystique of the whole thing (AKA cost).
It's a long time ago, but I was engaged and married within 6 weeks. I made my own dress and everyone was horrified because they thought it should take months! It took me a couple of weeks after work, no problem.