Dina, the owner and seamstress of Sealed with a Kiss, is genuinely one of the most incredible people I have ever met in my life. Not only is she supremely talented, but she is kind..., patient, and trustworthy.
I purchased a custom made dress from the LA designer Cinq over a year ago and when it finally came in, it was completely, devastatingly wrong. Sizing, details, all of it. Dina retook all my measurements, explained to the dressmaker exactly what needed to be done, and when the dress came back still wrong (the dressmaker having ignored Dina’s instructions) with less than a couple of weeks until my wedding, Dina literally took it apart and rebuilt it from its pieces. It was perfect. It was better and more beautiful than I ever could have imagined and it fit me like a glove.
Other important things for you to know:
1. my dress was made from heritage French silk tulle and satin, everyone tells you it is impossible to find a seamstress that work with fabrics like that. You would have thought Dina was born in those materials the way she so effortlessly handled them.
2. For Dina, it was never a question of whether I was going to get my dream dress or not, she was going to make it happen. I was so gutted and discouraged by how wrong my original dress was, I was 100% ready to just scratch it and buy a new one, but instead of agreeing and selling me one, she told me she was going to make it happen, and she DID.
There are very few people on this earth I think of as highly as I think of Dina. If you are within a few hours of Sealed with a Kiss, drive there. This is the seamstress you want. Figuring out your wedding dress is such an emotionally vulnerable experience and I feel so incredibly lucky and grateful to have had Dina as my partner throughout the process.