When you purchase your wedding gown, keep in mind that alterations can cost quite a bit, sometimes up to half as much as the dress itself. Part of the alteration process will include creating a bustle style and sewing the loops and hooks or ties that will create it (the bustle is generally not included in the original dress off the rack).
Here are some tips for making the bustling process on your wedding day a bit smoother:
Color Code It
Before your wedding day, buy a variety of different colored ribbons and cut two small pieces of each. Tie one green ribbon on one bustle loop and the other green ribbon to it's corresponding loop. Continue this for the other loops with the red, blue, pink, yellow, etc ribbons. Then, when it's time to bustle your dress, your bridesmaids will know exactly which loops go together by simply matching the colors. Since the bustle loops are on the inside of the dress, the ribbons won't be visible.
Pin it Up
Blame it on Murphy and his pesky law, but no matter how well your seamstress or tailor sews your bustle loops, at least one of them will break at some point during your wedding. The weight of your dress fabric will be heavy, so we recommend diaper pins instead of regular safety pins when fixing a broken bustle tie. These are made of a heavier metal that will support the weight of almost any gown and you can find them at Target or Babies R Us.
What style bustle are you having on your wedding dress?
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The color code it idea is great. Doing a bustle can be kind of intimidating and so any thing helps!
Mine had numbers written on each tie. So you tied #1 to the corresponding #1. It worked out pretty well.
i like this post. not sure if i'm going to bustle my dress, but good to know.
kilee
Diaper pins have saved us SOOOO many times!
What great tips Liene!
what a dress! wow.
I have a dress with pickups and little jewels, what would be the best bustle? The seamstress at Alfred Angelo did 7 loops and buttons straight accross and it looks horrible and like I am dropping in the back. I pitched a fit and I am getting a new dress but I don't know which style would be the best for the bustle, it's style 1963 from Alfred Angelo.
Thanks!
I need a few suggestions on which bustle stlye to pick from for my dress. my dress is moonlight j5778. I am just worried about the material (english net) I dont want it to rip. Help please Amy
down the back of your dress almost at the top of your bum they need to put a reinforced button of some kind, like a diamante button but sewn on really really tight.
then they add a tiny loop only big enough to fit over the button about half way down your train, not on the inside bt on the outside of the dress.
you then fold the train almost into itself so that the loop hooks onto the button and so if there is any detail on your train you still see it.
does that make sense??
I have a double french bustle on my dress - 34 points in all I believe. I absolutely love it. And all the ribbons are color coded! Its a Lazaro and absolutely gorgeous!