I brought my lace and beaded trumpet-style wedding dress here for alterations. At the bridal store, I was told not many alterations would be needed, so I figured taking it to a tailor who did wedding dresses would be safe. This was my mistake.
I was a little uncertain when I first walked in because the place looked dirty and there were dresses hanging everywhere that could have gotten stained, but because of the good reviews, I stayed.
The bottom of the dress needed hemming and the capped/tank sleeves needed shortening. While Mr. Sung did a fine job hemming the laced bottom, I'm sorry to say that the sleeves were not shortened properly. The tank sleeves had been rolled and sewn so that each one looked like a lumpy cigar sitting on my shoulder with obvious frayed bits showing at the ends. I also asked him to sew bra cups in, which he did, but he did not sew them inside the lining. Overall, it didn't seem very professionally done. When I tried on the dress a week later for a friend, she noticed the lumpy sleeves without me saying anything about them and that even the back of the bodice was very loose. These are the kinds of details you would expect a tailor to notice and want to fix.
Lastly, at the final fitting, when I told Mr. Sung that the back is still long and asked if there should be a bustle, he said I could take a safety pin and pin the dress up underneath. By this point, I was very nervous that he did not know wedding dresses.
Mr. Sung was nice and I think he meant well, but he did not do a proper job and maybe the dress was too complex. It was still over a couple hundred dollars. I paid because of the hemming work and I wanted my dress back, but I felt very disappointed and perplexed. I ended up taking the dress to a seamstress to correct the sleeves, fit the bodice properly and make a bustle. My advice is to take a wedding dress to a dressmaker or seamstress. read more