Brides. Don't be afraid of the seamstress!

So you have found 'the one'. You have ordered it and you have gone back to the boutique from where you bought it. This is the moment of truth. This is when you see for the first time how you are going to look on your wedding day, the day you have dreamt about since being a small child.
But instead of being in floods of tears from the sheer happiness that this moment has evoked, there can quite often be tears because the dress doesn't quite fit and the image staring back from the full-size mirror is not the one imagined.