So, I had my first wedding dress fitting this weekend. The good news - the woman agreed to take the dress in enough (I bought it when I was an 18W, I'm now a 14 and shrinking, and most seamstresses refused to go from the womens sizes into the regular...).
The bad news - she has to completely deconstruct the bodice, and take in every seam...and she has to reshape the chest area completely (take out all of the boning, reshape to shrink down the bustline). She's also adding in a corset (ribbon tie) back so it has a little more size flexibility (ie, if I shrink between the final fitting and the wedding, we can still make the dress work).
The final cost to take the dress that fit PERFECTLY when I bought it to the size that fits now?
$300.
A very expensive NSV indeed.