For a Wedding Dress

ALTERATION SPECIALIST, multiple locations; alterationspecialists.com

in 2019, voice actor Lauren Kammerling needed a jumpsuit hemmed by the end of the day. She took to Google and found Alteration Specialists—several people had commented that it could handle a quick turnaround. She dropped the jumpsuit off in the morning and picked it up before her holiday party—the length was perfect and the stitching pristine. She has since entrusted the shop with all of the outfits for her upcoming wedding— hers and her entire bridal party’s both. Most challenging was her extremely delicate tulle engagement-photo dress—the sleeves needed shortening, the train needed hemming, and the whole thing had to be taken in. Afterward, she says, it fit like a glove and “not a pearl was out of place.” Dermatologist Elyse Love also used Alteration for her wedding—she brought her (slightly too big) silk dress in only three weeks before her elopement. Two weeks later, she had it back— altered, as she’d specified, only ever so slightly, so it fit well but didn’t appear to have ever been touched. (From $18.)