I found my dream dress here. The rest of the experience, however, was AWFUL. DO NOT BUY AND ALTER YOUR WEDDING DRESS HERE.
Buying the dress was easy. The first problem came when I received the call that my dress was ready to be shipped, and I just needed to make my final payment. Wini said after the payment posted, it would take 2-3 weeks for the dress to come in.
What she never mentioned until over a month later, was that shipping was delayed because of a warehouse relocation. She never called or emailed to tell me this.
When the dress finally came in, it was big. Wini said 2 inches on either side should fit. It was too late to order the veil I wanted. Wini said her seamstress could make a veil that looks just like the one I wanted.
2nd fitting- dress was big in the bust, a little snug in the back and still long. The lace jacket had a HUGE SEAM in the front, because the SEAMSTRESS THOUGHT THE BUTTONS WENT IN FRONT. At least, that's what Wini said.
3rd fitting, 10 days until the wedding. Veil looked like a child's arts and crafts project. The dress was so tight in the back, I had back fat spilling over. Wini said I was swollen because it was hot outside. She said I should have 6 girls help me and pat myself down in baby powder.! The bust still did not fit.
When I emailed her my concerns about the back being too tight, she emailed me back stating she would tell her seamstress to take out an inch.
That's when it occurred to me at no point at any fitting did I ever see a seamstress. At no point was I measured, or pinned. Wini simply chose to keep taking it in, ultimately guessing on the alterations!! I felt like an idiot, how did I not realize I needed a seamstress?!?! I guess I just trusted this woman, business owner, to know how to do her job.
After demanding to see the seamstress because Wini said she didn't speak English, I pointed out you don't need to speak English to see a dress doesn't fit. 8 days before my wedding and my dress doesn't fit and the woman who sold it to me thinks it's ok for her bride to look like a stuffed sausage.
The "seamstress" ended up taking the dress out, putting a HUGE SEAM down the front of my lace bodice, pieces of fabric sticking out of the sides and missing lace scallopping around the edge of the dress.
I ended up grabbing my dress, which was on a wire hanger and flimsy short open plastic bag, and took it to another seamstress who was DISGUSTED. She said the dress was done so badly, the person who did it had no experience altering wedding dresses or working with lace. My dress needed to be taken IN again, 3 inches at the waist, hemmed about 4 inches, bust taken in at the seams and the jacket patched up and re-done to hide the seams and folded fabric seams.
I paid for a new dress and ended up wearing a dress that was taken in and out so many times it didn't even have all of its original fabric. It had spots on it, presumably from Wini transporting it back and forth to her "seamstress."
At the end of the day, I did get my money back for the alterations and veil. She never reimbursed me for what I paid at the new seamstress, even after stating in an email she would cover the cost for alterations.
Wini has no business selling wedding dresses. She obviously doesn't care what her brides look like. There is no seamstress on site to do proper measurements.
No bride should EVER go through what I went through the week of my wedding. If the dress was properly fitted, none of this would have happened.
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