I would not recommend Original Alterations or Shamsi AT ALL. At first, I thought that she was going to do a nice job with my dress. We met for the first alteration appointment and she explained her thoughts for altering my dress, the steps she would take, etc. I live out of state, so I planned to come to Columbus three times for my alteration appointments. However, at our last appointment my dress was far from being done (the back of my dress was just lace with buttons down the back and they were bunching when the dress was buttoned). At that appointment, Shamsi asked me "when are you coming back?" even though I had made it clear that was my final appointment and I was expecting to take the dress with me.
Shamsi told us to run some errands and the dress would be done in a few hours. When we came back, she had created a seam in the lace on the back, which took away from the feature that I liked most about the dress. She had further exacerbated the problem by sewing two big ugly circles of plain white fabric (that didn't match the lace of the dress) over the seam. When I asked her to please remove the circles, in the process she ripped a button off the back of my dress.
To make matter worse, Shamsi and her sister (who also works in the shop) started speaking in another language in front of my mom and me, even though every other time they had spoken in English in front of us. They couldn't even wait for us to leave the shop before they complained about us.
At this time, another girl and her mother were in the store. My mom asked Shamsi the total amount of the final payment we owed and she muttered the amount "oh and add on tax." The other girl's mom had to take out her phone to give us the tax amount -- Shamsi didn't even extend us the professional courtesy to tell us the total amount of the payment that we ordered!
Your wedding is a special day and you deserve to look perfect. I would highly caution against taking your dress to her. read more