Lily Kennedy Custom Gowns

Lily Kennedy Custom Gowns Custom wedding and formal gowns, alterations, and sewing

This isn’t as much a review or a rant but more of a REMINDER.  Please please don’t forget about us 🖤As wedding season is...
06/20/2026

This isn’t as much a review or a rant but more of a REMINDER. Please please don’t forget about us 🖤

As wedding season is in full swing right now I’m seeing everyone’s social media posts with stunning photos of all of your weddings. The end of all the vendor posts always have a long list of tags to shout out to all of the awesome vendors who helped make these weddings as wonderful as they are… but…. I rarely see tags for your or seamstress… and it’s a bummer. We all love for our business we’ve poured our hearts into to be acknowledged and I know for me (and the others who sit for hours making your dresses look and fit perfectly) it makes my day seeing my name tagged as well 🖤

Your wedding dress alterations play a big part in how you feel on your wedding day, how you look when your spouse lays eyes on you during your entrance or first look, how you see yourself in the photos for years to come, and how you show up when everyone you care about is all together watching you marry your person.

Book your alterations as soon as you have a wedding date. There aren’t many of us who do bridal alterations, and even less who do them well. And add us to your vendor list for tagging. It means the world!! Your dress didn’t look like that when you bought it 😉

Here are a bunch of BEFORE/AFTER pics to remind everyone that we are a vital part of the whole picture 🖤

XO Lily (and everyone who spends their entire summer in their sewing studios)

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Did your friend’s mom kindly offer to do your wedding dress alterations for you? Save you some cash?Here’s a little snea...
06/08/2026

Did your friend’s mom kindly offer to do your wedding dress alterations for you? Save you some cash?

Here’s a little sneak peek into what you’re getting… And it costs double to fix it…

Some more BEFORE and AFTER pics because the last post got over half a million views… and counting :)This is how you fit ...
06/06/2026

Some more BEFORE and AFTER pics because the last post got over half a million views… and counting :)

This is how you fit a dress… Some of my brides are told ‘it can’t be done’ because of beads and lace. I’m here to say it can. Just find someone who knows how to do it and does it well 🖤

Bustles shouldn’t be just practical… They should always keep to the dress’ silhouette and look beautiful as well 🖤      ...
06/03/2026

Bustles shouldn’t be just practical… They should always keep to the dress’ silhouette and look beautiful as well 🖤

Alterations Before and After… from the back 🖤This dress ‘fit’ the bride when she brought it to me- it needed to be taken...
06/01/2026

Alterations Before and After… from the back 🖤

This dress ‘fit’ the bride when she brought it to me- it needed to be taken in a little at the bust but otherwise, to most people, the dress fits well. Not to me!! I decided to change some design lines (creating a V shape at the lower back) which, as you can see, makes a huge difference in the silhouette. I fitted it properly through the bodice and then added buttons along the zipper and created custom illusion lace sleeves.

Knowing how to sew and knowing how to fit a dress are vastly different skills. Don’t just let a person who knows how to sew alter your expensive wedding dress… choose someone who can fit AND sew it 🖤

Update- This post has almost a million views now and some of the comments are nuts-

Just to clarify, it’s NOT AI. It’s the same bride and the same dress BEFORE AND AFTER ALTERATIONS. I spent hours working on this dress. The comments about the clock are silly- the clock is the same in both pics because the batteries died two years ago and I haven’t changed them (I’m busy making pretty dresses) not because it’s fake. I’ll add a few ‘progress pics’ that I took while we were deciding on specific lines and alterations…

It doesn’t hurt when the girls who wear my wedding dresses look like supermodels 🖤hairbydvsalannadportraits
05/05/2026

It doesn’t hurt when the girls who wear my wedding dresses look like supermodels 🖤

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