I had posted many months ago about worrying about my dress I bought off stillwhite.com. LOVE the website.

Also love that I bought a 14,000 Lazaro dress for $900. Yes. You heard that right. Dress was only 3 years old.
Unfortunately, the woman’s original tailor butchered the dress. The tailor actually used GLUE for the hem. And added weird boning. It sent my seamstress into a frenzy, lol.
But overall, she told me she was so excited to work on a Lazaro. Because living in Idaho, she doesn’t get that many exciting dresses to work on.

It took about eight different appointments to make sure the bodice fit correctly. It kept falling off anytime I shrugged my shoulders. We had to take out some boning and add a sheer mesh panel to the sides and make the straps went lower on my back instead of right below armpits. And we brought the waist up. … Along with all the other alterations including hem and the bustle… Previous bride had many holes in dress due to bad bustling and bad glue along hem 🤷🏼‍♀️ Bbq But after paying $900 for the dress, $30 for shipping and handling, and $1000 for alterations, I feel like I struck a gold mine! ! 👰

I appreciate everyone’s help and encouragement when I posted this dress months ago. I had so many second thoughts and worries. But as you see… it was a DREAM!

I’m including photos of how the dress showed up and how it didn’t fit me very well. The final photos you see are some of the professional photos taken. Just some sneak peeks .. more to come.

I keep receiving compliments on the dress. Everyone said it was made to look like it was fitted just for me. Which is was lol!

Again, thank you again to all you wonderful Reddit users! You really helped me stay calm and realize that alterations would make the dress.