Rant: Seamstress Ruined My Wedding Dress

Izzy • PNW 🌲 Retired Professional Ballerina. Master Pointe Shoe Fitter. Momma to 🐕🐈 👶🏻💙

Okay to start, when I got my dress and before alterations, it zipped up perfectly. No hitches, to catches what so ever. It was fine. I picked it up Thursday but didn't try it on as I was out running errands and I had already tried to pick it up once but she said it wasn't ready. Funny because she told me to pick it up at 11 am and it wasn't ready until 2 pm.... So I'm home with my fiance tonight and we decided to try on his suit and my dress together because it'd be fun, and we go to zip up my dress and IT DOESN'T ZIP UP. My fiance tried for a good while to zip it up and he can't zip it. I take it off, hang it back up and it won't even zip on the hanger. It gets caught in a tiny hole that hidden because the zipper folds into itself and almost isn't even straight.

The seamstress specifically told me she was not going to take it in on the zipper and she did it anyways. Worst $250 I've ever spent. I get married in 9 days and I'm stressing out about getting this stupid zipper fixed!

I just really needed to rant about this. It's my 2nd wedding, and last time my florist screwed up the flowers so bad they weren't anything close to what I had wanted. I was hoping having a very low-key inexpensive wedding would help anything from going wrong but SURPRISE. And I'm trying to keep myself as low/stress free as I recently found out I'm pregnant. ARGH WTFFFF!!!!