AIBU to ask how long before your wedding

[CharlieB93]

Was your alterations on your dress finished? And how many fittings did you have?

Four weeks beforehand I had a final fitting and seamstress finished the alterations a week later.

Three try ons altogether

Same, a month before but then lost weight (unintentionally…oh the days of being in your 20s!) so my skirt trailed the ground…

I had a consultation about 3 months before so she could have a look at the dress and get an idea of what needed altering and give me a price. Then alterations and final fitting about 3/4 weeks beforehand. Which was good because I put on a bit of weight between the two appointments!

I borrowed my sister's dress and wasn't allowed to alter it. We were pretty much the same size but I needed to find size three, four-inch white stilettos because she's a little taller. Quite easy in 1984.

I only had one fitting and then I assume I must have tried it on after the alterations were made. This was done probably 4 months before my wedding, but only because I was moving countries 3 months before (to where dh and I were going to live and also get married). So it was my last possible opportunity.

final fitting a week before...picked up 2 days before

1st: brought it off the peg from a wedding dress shop in Cairns Easter 1998, my mum took it back to UK and I tried it on when I came back in Aug 1998 3 days before the wedding - fitted fine.

2nd: DH spotted the dress I then chose, a Jaques Vert shift dress. I tried on 2 sizes, decided on the best one and brought it online about a month before.

A week before but I still lost another 1/2 stone in that week (completely unintentionally - how I wish it were that easy now!) so on the day it was a bit big.

3 fittings, last one was a week before the wedding

Final fitting was 3 weeks before

Bought a dress around 2 weeks before, and it fitted fine. No alterations or further fittings.

5 days before.

We had a 3 month engagement and planned the wedding within 2 months. Wedding day was mid April. I went dress shopping as soon as the date was set, so around the middle of February was when I got my dress.

I had 3 fittings. My 1st fitting was mid March, my 2nd was the end of March, and my final fitting was 5 days before the wedding.

I was pregnant when I got married and wanted to keep the zip back on my dress as I don't like corset dresses at all. My alterations were done by the in house seamstress at the local independent bridal boutique I got my dress from. Dress was a ball gown with zip back. So the final fitting had to be as close to the day as possible so it would still fit.

Thanks all! That’s reassured me - picking dress up three days before the wedding and I’m worried it won’t be right

The day before. It snowed, my dress was stuck somewhere in the north, it was very stressful.

Should have been done about five days beforehand, I think!

I had three fittings. So many layers of net underneath and I'm quite short! The last one was a week before, I think.

I’m just worried because I’ve had 6 fittings and each time the dress was too bit/then too small

And I’ve not gained or lost weight

Three fittings IIRC

I do remember being a bridesmaid where we just had one "fitting" where they took the measurements and that was it. The dresses were a poor fit and really badly made to be honest.

I'm so glad I've been married for ever! I'd have no patience with multiple fittings.

Mine was off the peg from Fenwick and fitted perfectly fine.