Seams To Me

Mary and Betty were wonderful to work with altering my two wedding gowns. For my traditional wedding gown, it was taken in at the waist and a 1-​point bustle was created. For my Chinese gown, it was also taken in at the waist and the hem was shortened to knee length. Their fees were well within my price range. And I loved how friendly they were.

Betty was amazing! I wanted a really complicated bustle for my wedding dress and she was able to recreate it from a single picture.
It held up all night… until someone stepped on my dress and one point popped out… but that was not her fault and more points should have been ripped out in that incident so I know she did a great job and securing the bustle.
She also hemmed my dress and cleaned up some damages the dress had when I bought it. The dress was a sample and it looked brand new when I picked it up.

Betty and Mary are sisters, both seamstresses who have converted the 2^nd story of their home into a workshop/​studio.
I needed to get my wedding dress altered (hemmed) and I looked up «wedding dress alterations» on Unilocal,came across two 5-​star reviews and since I live nearby, I decided to give Seams to Me a call and set an appointment.
When I called, they seemed surprised that I’d even heard of them, they admitted that they don’t do many wedding dresses any more. In their workshop it seemed they were working on a bunch of kids clothes. It looked like they were working for someone who buys American Apparel kids clothes in bulk and then has the two sisters sew on felt decals and decorations to ‘dress-​up’ the plain onesies and baby hoodies. Looked like stuff you’d find at a booth at some funky farmer’s market or street festival, near the homemade soaps ;-) Not my style, but who am I to judge?!? They must be doing well b/​c they seemed busy & had TONS of clothes piling up for this chick to come pick-​up.
Anyhow, (back to my wedding dress~) they mentioned that they used to have a lot of wedding dress business but now they are mainly working for this kiddie vendor.
I used their bathroom to put on my dress and they had many suggestions. Since my dress had a very low-​back, they took me in at the bust + alongside the waist so that I could go w/​out wearing a bra at my beach wedding (BIG plus…) they hemmed the dress so that I could wear w/​my flat flip flops and added a bustle so that the train wouldn’t drag when we were in the sand and on the dance floor. All great suggestions (I had no clue about where to begin w/​my alterations~)
They worked w/​my time frame and at the end, the cost was $ 300 to alter the dress. Seemed pricey, but I since have NO experience w/​wedding dress alterations, I had no point of comparison.
My dress was purchased at the Wedding Warehouse discount place off Stevenson for about $ 750 so I just SLIGHTLY went over my ‘wedding dress budget’ of $ 1,000 ($ 50 bucks over– not a big deal)
Overall I was really happy w/​my dress. It fit me perfectly once altered and I was SUPER comfy on my wedding day which I guess is all that really matters :-)

Betty and Mary are the sweetest two lil peas in a pod. They came out to my place of business to check out a custom order I was pursuing. They took measurements and discussed the challenges the project faced.
Their patience and dedication to perfection is hard to beat. Whatever project you may have in mind, these two can make it happen!

Betty and Mary from Seams to Me are the absolute BEST!!! I had my silk organza wedding gown (weird bubble hem on the bottom) and silk Chinese cheongsams altered by Betty and they both turned out perfectly!
Betty and Mary are the sweetest angels and I’m so glad I found them through reviews on a wedding forum! They will not charge you/​work on your gown until they feel 110% comfortable with the alterations. So you can be absolutely confident that your special gown is in the BEST hands and you can trust everything will turn out perfectly.
Other pieces they were working on were dying veils, sewing cute little onesies, prom dresses, dance outfits, wrestling uniforms, you name it and they can custom make it for you! If I ever need any custom pieces, I will only go to Betty and Mary.
Prices were very reasonable. They go above and beyond their call of duty to perfect your alterations and to make sure everything is perfect, so to me, any price is worth it for this type of service. But the cherry on top is that Seams to Me is one of the more affordable alterations than many of the other alteration services I researched. Definitely less expensive than getting alterations done at a salon.
I’ve since recommended their services to other brides-​to-​be from all over the Bay Area and everyone is sooooooo happy with Seams to Me so you can have full confidence in their services!