David's bridal was going to charge me $25 per pick up for my bustle and wanted to do 3 pickups (picture folding a cloth diaper) and they wanted to take it in on the sides (even tho it's a corset back) and up 2 inches (even tho I was wearing 6 inch heels).... Altogether it was going to cost me around $200-250 at David's Bridal to alter my wedding dress. I decided to call around to see if those prices were pretty standard, House of Brides was my first call and when she told me $10 per pick up for the bustle I rushed over before she could figure out her mistake in price :) Here I was thinking "wow, what would have cost me $75 for the bustle alone at DB was going to only cost me $30 at House of Brides!"...but then I went in and she was SO personal and one on one and really focused on ME and what I liked and didn't like (ie the diaper bustle)...she showed me a way to do my bustle with only one pick up that gave it an allure of still having a train, just shorter, and it tied right into my corset! So $10 for a bustle! Then I ask her about taking it in and up and she says "why would you do that? It's a corset...and you're wearing heels..." So there went those needless alterations! She did up sell me a little bit...I went in with a bustier to wear with my dress and she told me she could add bra cups (with push up) and boning so I wouldn't have to wear an uncomfortable bustier under my dress! I kid you not, I walked out of there paying $35 in alterations and my wedding dress fit me like a glove!!!! She also makes gorgeous veils and garters, if I hadn't already purchased mine I would have purchased from her in a heart beat!