Lace & Liberty - We Turn Dreams Into Dresses

hey still quickly created my dream dress and got it shipped to me quickly! It barely needed any alterations and it made me look like a fairytale princess.

ything I wanted my dress to be. We picked out fabrics and that was that. The issue came eight months later when I got the first progress pictures. I’m a Black bride, and I mentioned during the consultation that I wanted the illusion back to match my skin tone. The pictures showed a dress with an illusion back clearly intended for a white woman. The fabric was also really pink. The swatches I received to pick from were champagne and blush, and though I chose the blush, what appeared in the photos was a LOT pinker than I thought it would be. I work in a field where I give notes on projects like this all the time, and I know that big notes need to be brought up ASAP to avoid lost work, so I mentioned both issues. To their credit, they jumped right on fixing the illusion issue and sent out swatches of the lace so that I could pick one closer to my skin tone. But when it came to the fabric, the response was: “It only looks that way because we have it under intense lighting.” In retrospect, I think they just didn’t want to redo the work, but if they’d offered the opportunity to replace the fabric, even if it was at a fee, I’d have taken them up on it. Instead, they minimized my concerns. I should have stopped them there, but I know that things photograph differently, and because I wasn’t in the same state to see it in person, I took their word for it. The next progress picture I got, the dress was complete and ready to be shipped, and it was very pink. Again, I voiced my concern, but the dress was already made. They offered a discount on a new one, which I recognize they didn’t have to do, but I was only able to afford the dress in the first place because of the promotion they were running when I originally booked, so I declined. The dress arrived and was stunning, but very pink. To add insult to injury, when I removed it from the bag, I could hear the beading falling off and hitting the floor. It turns out, most of the beads on my 3d floral lace were not secured and are very loose/dangly. The arm holes were too small, causing the lace to dig into my back and underarm. The zipper caught at the pocket, and when I brought this to L&L’s attention, I was told a seamstress would just have to remove the pocket that I’d paid them to put in. I was excited for months to finally get my dress, and I could not have been more disappointed. The dress is beautiful, and now that I’ve seen a seamstress, it fits in the underarms and zips without the removal of the pocket, but if I had to do it all over again, I’d have just bought one off of the rack. I avoided doing that because I wanted the vision I had in my head, but I still don’t have it, and I have probably spent more for the privilege.

dresses to make something unique and that checked all my boxes. They delivered my finished dress much more quickly than expected, and overall I was happy with my wedding look.

ses I had tried on and explained which part of each I liked. Alison had a drawing ready to go at my first appointment, we made just a few tweaks, and that was it – super easy! In fact, it was so easy, I’d spent less than an hour between phone calls and the appointment, that I was a touch nervous. But there was no reason for concern! Lace & Liberty sent me the progress pictures, I asked questions, and was assured that they were executing my vision. Then the dress was ready by the end of October and it was marvelous!