The Team Brides Trust for Couture Bridal Alterations, Vintage Restyling, and Everything But the Dress

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Bridal and Evening Wear Alterations, Gown Customizations, Accessories, And Wedding-Day Dressers For Brides In NYC And Baltimore.

At The Wedding Dresser, we are your full-service bridal concierge, offering couture bridal alterations, gown restyling and resizing, vintage and antique gown restoration, wedding-day dressers, personal styling, accessories, and long-term gown care. From the first fitting to the final details, our team of highly skilled designers will guide you through a thoughtful, personalized process to ensure your wedding wardrobe is beautifully finished and impeccably executed. Your wedding look will feel like you, elevated.

We specialize in altering, tailoring, restyling, resizing, and restoring bridal attire, evening wear, and couture gowns with exceptional, one-of-a-kind craftsmanship. Our team of designers is highly skilled with degrees from top fashion and costume design schools. We work on any number of garments, including:

  • Wedding Dresses

  • Evening Gowns

  • Bridesmaids dresses

  • Mother of the Bride and Groom Dresses

  • Suits and Jumpsuits

  • Red Carpet Gowns

  • Pageant Gowns

  • Prom Dresses

  • Quinceanera Dresses

  • Couture Garments

Complete Your Look
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Providing You With Stress-Free Services Before, During, and After Your Big Day

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Bridal and Formal Alterations

Couture Bridal Alterations for a Flawless Fit

Bridal alterations are what we do best. Brides trust us with their gowns because fit matters—and experience does too. Our designers provide professional bridal alterations ranging from simple adjustments to intricate couture transformations. Whether your dress needs a few thoughtful tweaks or more detailed couture work, our team approaches every alteration with skill, care, and attention to detail.

We tailor wedding dresses, rehearsal dinner outfits, and after-party looks with exceptional attention to detail. We also have the perfect accessories to help you bring these looks to life.

Perfect Your Fit
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Vintage Gown Restoration

Giving New Life to the Pieces That Matter Most

Whether it’s your grandmother’s antique gown or a fabulous vintage find you fell in love with, we are the only antique wedding gown restoration specialists with the breadth of skills to clean and restore vintage and antique fabrics and the design skills to thoughtfully update and restructure treasured garments. We preserve the heart of the piece while tailoring it to fit your style, your body, and your moment.

Vintage Gown Restoration

Gown Restyling & Customizations

Bridal Gown Makeovers & Personalization

If you are dreaming of something a little unexpected, you’re our kind of bride! Bring your ideas to life through sleeves, toppers, overskirts, bows, modesty builds, appliqué placement, and other couture customizations tailored to your aesthetic. Restyling is one of our specialties, and we offer an extensive collection of sample sleeves, overskirts, draping options, and more for you to try on during your fitting.

Our studio is filled with an incredible selection of fabrics, laces, feathers, trims, and an abundance of beading and motifs to help personalize your gown. With specialists on our team who excel in hand beading and intricate lacework, all we need is your imagination to create something truly one-of-a-kind.

Create a One-of-a-Kind Look
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Bridal Styling & Accessories

Everything but the Dress, Thoughtfully Curated

Finding your dress is just the first step in creating your wedding day look. One of the greatest benefits of having fittings with our designers is that they help you thoughtfully complete the entire ensemble. Our curated collection of accessories—including toppers, overskirts, capes and draping, veils, hair accessories, jewelry, wraps, evening bags, and gloves—is not only far more extensive than what you’ll find at most bridal salons, but also more reasonably priced.

We also make sure your gown is supported by the perfect foundation. We carry top-quality shapewear, corsets, sticky bras, and bust tape, all of which can be tried on with your dress during your fitting to ensure comfort, confidence, and a flawless fit. Our one-stop approach simplifies the process and makes bringing your full bridal look together effortless.

Style the Finishing Touches
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Accessories Studio

Handcrafted Pieces Designed to Elevate Your Look

Our accessory collection includes everything from custom lace toppers, overskirts, veils, headpieces, bags, gloves, and draping elements—all thoughtfully designed and made in-house by Susan Spring and her team. Additional pieces are carefully sourced from women-owned, women-designed brands, with every item either made in the USA or created by fair trade artisans we are proud to support.

Each style is chosen for its craftsmanship, wearability, and ability to transform your ensemble.

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Wedding Day Dresser & Personal Stylist

Your Bridal Concierge on the Day It Matters Most

Your wedding day should feel effortless—and that’s where we come in. Our day-of bridal stylist supports you and your bridal party with impeccable styling and attentive care, so you look flawless from the first button to the last photo.

Your bridal attendant is there to steam, dress, style, and manage the details, allowing you to relax and fully enjoy your day. Our dressers are trusted by top venues from DC to The Hamptons and are available to travel to your destination, bringing calm, joy, and a steady presence when it matters most.

Past clients consistently share that this was one of the most valuable and meaningful investments of their wedding day—because feeling supported, confident, and stress-free is truly priceless.

Be Cared For on the Big Day
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Wedding Dress Cleaning & Preservation

Care That Protects Your Story

We offer trusted dry cleaning and preservation services for new gowns, safe for even the most delicate fabrics and intricate embellishments. Simply drop your dress at our studio, and it will be returned to you carefully preserved in museum-quality, acid-free packaging. We also provide hand washing and preservation services for new, vintage, and antique dresses.

Our unique restoration services for antique and vintage gowns include gentle washing, fabric restoration, reinforcement of fragile or dry-rotted lace, and the recreation of couture hand beading—all performed by specialists on our team. We have restored gowns dating back to the 1890s, and our team brings deep fashion history knowledge, experience, and skill to working with garments from any era. Your gown’s beauty—and the memories it holds—will be thoughtfully protected for generations to come.

Clean and Preserve Your Gown

What Our Brides Are Saying

  • I cannot say enough about how wonderful my experience was at The Wedding Dresser. My gown needed significant alterations with detailed beading and embroidery, and the work they did was exceptional. They were kind, quick, and incredibly accommodating throughout the process"

    —Brittany

  • "I could not be happier with my experience here. The Wedding Dresser was everything I was hoping and more. She was beyond helpful in narrowing down my style and what I was looking for. She was so patient throughout my indecisiveness and made the experience fun! I was here to look for accessories to go with my gown that I am borrowing. It was really difficult to find a place where I could go and try on things to see how it looks-- and the Wedding Dresser came through and provided more than what I was looking for. I got my veil and the experience of wedding shopping with my mom. Thank you so much!!!

    —Liz

  • "I loved every second of working with these amazing women! I was so comforted by how thoroughly they listed to me and my needs for my dress. It came out beautifully. Every person who worked on my dress put as much effort into it as if it was their own wedding and I’m so grateful."

    —Brenna

  • "Susan and her team saved my wedding dress! We came to her in a panic less than 2 weeks before my wedding and everything was executed so perfectly. I wanted to cry tears of joy! I cannot express how thankful I am for Susan, Gabby, Indigo... The whole team! They are all truly talented. Thank you, Wedding Dresser!"

    —Brenna

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Our flagship studio in Brooklyn and our new Baltimore, MD location serve brides throughout the New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Washington D.C. areas. We offer virtual and in-person consultations to meet you wherever you are in your planning.

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Brooklyn, NYC

254 36th Street, Suite C-253

Brooklyn, NY, 11232

1-347-529-7137

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Baltimore, MD

Village of Cross Keys 

2 Village Square, Suite 235,

Baltimore, MD 21210

+1 410-484-4362

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