CONGRATS on your engagement!!!
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and welcome to the board!
i'm going to echo many of the posts on here. david's does not hold dresses. in a way it's good. i'll explain that in a bit. the second thing is - DON'T GET YOUR DRESS ALTERED THERE!!!! first off, it'll cost you a helluva lot less elsewhere. more importantly, they do horrible work. here's my sister's saga (which will explain why you'll want to pick your dress up asap). each of the fitting experiences detailed below were proceeded by at least an hour of waiting (even though she had an appointment)
fitting 1:
dress is pinned along sides b/c it needs to be taken in
hem is pinned
bustle is pinned
detachable straps are pinned
fitting 2:
straps are completely sewn in
dress looks big
hem is crooked
fitting 3 (2 weeks before the big day)
straps are sewn in to back of dress and detachable in front
dress looks big
top of dress is crooked
dress is dragging on the ground - seamstress argues with us for 20 minutes about how dress is correct length, completely ignoring the fact that my sister can't even take a step without stepping on dress
bustle is several inches too long/dragging on ground
fitting 4 (day after fitting 3)
forget about the straps and everything else, THE DRESS WAS CHOPPED SO IT'S NOW 2 INCHES OFF THE GROUND!!!!
it took a good hour before the alterations manager decided to come and help us (i literally got tothe point where i was calling the store to try and get her on the phone since she was avoiding the alterations area)
after we found out from alterations manager that the dress had indeed been cut, my sister and i spent FOUR HOURS talking/arguing/crying/pleading with the alterations manager, the seamstress, and the store manager to try and get a solution. oh, during which time we found out that the sides of the dress had never been taken in!!
finally another store manager came to the rescue. first she looked in their replenishment stock to see if they had my sister's dress in her size. they didn't. then she pulled out all dresses in replenishement in my sister's size AND (this is why you want to pick up your dress) any dresses that were waiting to be picked up in her size. my sister, being a bride, turned those down b/c she knew that she wouldn't have wanted anyone else trying on her dress. anyhow, through the trying on of the replenishment stock dresses it came out that THEY SOLD HER THE WRONG SIZE DRESS!!!
in the end she wound up with a dress that was gorgeous and fit her so much better than the previous dress. it was 2x more expensive than the previous dress but after EIGHT HOURS in the store and the emotional distress, the store manager gave it to her for the same price as the other dress. but let me tell you, it was more than a nightmare. oh, and she wound up finding an outside seamstress to do the hem and bustle.
