The Dressmaker

I am very pleased with the alterations from The Dressmaker! My dress fit like a glove and it looked great in my professional photos. The cost is a bit pricey (mainly because I had a difficult hem) but in the end worth it. My dress got compliments the entire time!

She did wonderful work to my wedding dress. However, I do wish she would have kept me more informed of the expenses.

I went to Kristin to get my measurements taken for a custom-made dress I was ordering online. At the time I got my measurements taken, I asked about scheduling an appointment for any alterations that may be needed. She told me to wait until I received the dress and then call her to make an appointment (knowing that my dress would be arriving about 6 weeks before my wedding). I called her 8 weeks later when I received the dress, and she informed me that she was booked 11-12 weeks out. I don't understand why she wouldn't allow me to make my appointment when I met with her the first time, and she didn't really offer an explanation for this. I asked if she had a recommendation for another alterations vendor (since she was booked), and she basically told me to look online. Everyone else has such glowing reviews of her, and I'm so surprised by the service I received, which I consider to be subpar. Hopefully you'll have better luck and make the cut when you contact her, because apparently some people don't.

I got my alterations done at The Dressmaker. She did a wonderful job and my too-big dress ended up fitting perfectly. She only works with wedding dresses and is an expert in the field. Expect to spend at minimum $250. Would recommend.

The Dressmaker made a lovely shrug for my wedding ceremony. Quality and skill was high. Price was reasonable. I would recommend this dressmaker.

I wanted to wear my Mother's wedding gown from 1968, but wanted to make a change to the top to make it my own. Kristen said she could absolutely do what I wanted and did a beautiful job re-making the top of the dress, as well as some changes to the slip. This happened over the course of 4-5 fittings over 6 months or so. She is a master with great attention to detail. She also helped make a revision to my veil in the last month before the wedding. The dress was gorgeous and I felt so comfortable and beautiful in it all day long! Thanks to Kristen, I had the special chance to wear my Mother's gown.

Kristen took my grandmother's 50 year-old wedding dress and turned it into a masterpiece. It couldn't have turned out any better. I enjoyed working with her in designing it. She had great ideas and was able to fullfill my requests.

She nearly had to cut my dress in half but she did it flawlessly. It (I) looked amazing. The only hick up I had was that it was to be taken in one more time before the wedding but it wasnt. She also made my veil too :)

Wonderful!! Was happy to do an alteration on a gown she didn't make. The timing worked well and she did a very nice job considering the challenge of pleated chiffon. Pricing was less than the quote I got from the seamstress who works with the store I bought my dress from. And she was a pleasure to visit with. Given my great experience with only an alteration, if you want a custom gown, go here! (I had received her name from a friend who had her create a custom gown and loved it!)

I bought a sample sale dress, and Kristin was able to recommend somewhere to have it cleaned well (Mashek's in Wayzata, who did a great job!) and then she made the appropriate alterations. The dress turned out great. She is obviously a perfectionist, which shows in her work. I would recommend getting started with her at least several months in advance for alterations, likely sooner if she is making your dress from scratch.

I thought they did a good job with my dress but a few of the bridesmaids had issues. It was a bit overpriced for their dresses in my opinion ($50 for hemming alone). A couple of the girls’ hems came loose at the reception, which was a pain for them. I think they got some of the cost refunded to them.

My mother offered me her wedding dress in jest, I think, because she probably thought that I would want something new and fancy. I surprised her by accepting the offer, on the condition that I could alter the dress a little. I am about five inches taller than my mother, and my shoulders are rather wide. At first she didn’t want the dress to be cut up, but then we visited the DressMaker in Edina with my plans and her dress. I wanted to cut off the sleeves and make the dress top more tube top like, and then shorten the bottom so that it would fall just bellow my knees. The seamstress understood at once my vision, and drew it out for my mother and explained how easy it would be. Once my mother got the picture, she gave the go-ahead. We had to go back three more times for fittings, and just to follow up. It looked beautiful once it was done. You could still see the original pattern of the dress, this just looked like a modern take on a classic. It fit perfectly, and it was worth the cost, which was still far less than what most dresses cost nowadays.

I had bought the dress a year before the wedding, and assume it fit at the time. A month before the day, my mother and mother-in-law insisted that I try on the dress for them. I guess in all the stress of planning and starting a new job, I had lost some weight. The dress sort of hung in the front. We asked around and we were told about The DressMaker. They were really nice about fitting us in, considering the short time span. The dress, they said, was easy to fix. I have to say that when I saw the types of dresses they were making, I wish I would have gotten a custom made dress rather than my generic dress! I was beautiful nonetheless!

if you can afford them and you want to feel like a whimsical princess, please try this place. First of all it is appointment only and they actually build your dress on a mannequin, so start early. You come back like three times and the whole time you are making payments. I picked it up like three days before the big day.

The Dressmaker actually made my wedding gown which included all the alterations that needed to be made in the process. We decided on the style and material to be used together, I brought a couple pics. Everything was just how I expected it except for the length of my train. I had asked for it longer than it was but it didn’t turn out to be that long. But I still loved the dress. Only other minus was she was a little pricey.