West Coast Couture

e necessary alterations so I felt like I had no say in the seamstress and so wish I took the dress and left after the first time I met her. While she did ultimately make the dress wearable, the entire experience was unnecessarily stressful and unprofessional. From the start, Marie was disorganized and forgetful with appointment times. She often kept me trapped in long, unrelated conversations about her personal life, from her garden to family issues to car accidents. I was paying for a service, but instead of using our time efficiently, she repeatedly diverted into tangents that left me drained and frustrated. She could have been working on other brides dresses too during that time! The most disappointing part was that my dress was not ready until the night before I flew out for my wedding—even though I had ordered my dress well in advance to have time to try different accessories and hairstyles. This completely robbed me of the chance to plan those details with the time I had envisioned. After my first appointment, she told me she would follow up when the dress was ready for the next fitting. A month later, after I reached out to her myself, she claimed she had been “waiting to hear from me” and needed a few more weeks. Her lack of communication and organization was very stressful. When I was on my way to pick up my completed dress, she caalled to say that her steamer left a black mark down the front of it. I am an understanding person and knowthings happen but it was pushing me to ny breaking point and I was flying out 2 days later. She said she would need to rush it to the dry cleaners before they closed but to still come try it on. The dry cleaners had agreed to wait for her to come by before the evening. She AGAIN was talking to me about her car accident, that she caused, and I had to gently remind her that the dry cleaners were waiting for her and that she should leave before we miss the chance to get the black line out of my dress. Thankfully it was fixed, but the timing was not great Other brides had told her that she needed an assistant, and she would go on and on about how shes fine and but I agreed with the other brides. Her inability to stay organized or manage her workload caused me unnecessary anxiety leading up to one of the most important days of my life. If I could do it over again, I would have chosen my own seamstress from the start. Marie may be capable of sewing, but her lack of professionalism, poor time management, and constant oversharing made this an awful experience. Brides deserve better. When other brides tell me they have their dress weekes before their wedding I still feel irritated.