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Knowing how to correctly bustle the dress is so important. If you don’t have a planner make sure someone goes with you to your fitting and learns how to bustle your dress. Bustles go from the very simple “one hook over bustle” to the much more complicated “under bustles” with up to twenty ties that must be matched under the dress. Someone needs to know how to tie up the bustle on the wedding day.
Now for a word of advice, make sure this person is not your mother, she will be excited, nervous and probably not even with you when the dress needs to be bustled. Also, bustling your dress involves someone being on their knees up under your dress, probably not what your mother wants to do in her wedding finery.
Lots of brides chose a bridesmaid to learn how to bustle the dress. Again, this might not be your best plan. I’ve seen so many bridesmaids get nervous and forget everything they have learned about bustling the dress. Also, many times the bridesmaids will have gone on ahead to the cocktail hour and are not available when bride and groom pictures are finished and the dress needs to be bustled. Pick someone that is calm, reliable and will be there when needed for this job.
One more thing, while at this final fitting ask for any material that was cut from your dress for hemming. Give this piece to your florist so any ribbons he uses on your bouquet can be matched to the exact color of your dress.
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