Bridal Arena

Carol is an absolute blessing! She is incredibly sweet and very talented. I had an extremely unique idea for my wedding dress and just couldn’t find what I was looking for. Carol was able to see my vision and made my dream dress a reality! Even the work she did for my husband was perfect. I have continued to visit Bridal Arena with a number of different alterations and clothes to be transformed. I would recommend her work to anyone!

Completely awful. I was referred to carol by a friend of mine who had her wedding dress altered by her. The dress was to big for me to begin with and it needed to be taken in. It took me 5 trips and 2 months driving up to her home with trying it on over and over for her (it was suppose to take 3 weeks total) and I finally could not take it anymore. A very long story short she she ruined my dress it is now to small and will not zip up and there is no fix for it. I did not put on any weight either ladies during this time span at all. Very unprofessional and once again my wedding dress is ruined and she still charged me $ 300 even though I can now not wear it.

I was very nervous about getting my dress altered because it has some very intricate bead work at the top that needed some alteration. Carol did a fantastic job! You can not tell that the bead work was altered.
Carol works out of her house and you can tell she has a real passion for what she does! Turn around was about 2 weeks and prices were extremely reasonable.
Thank you, Carol! I can not wait to wear my dress in just over a month!

Carol has been doing alterations for my family for more than a decade. Everything from my suits and dress pants to the kid’s band uniforms to my daughter’s prom dress. Carol does each job with an artisans craftsmanship that is hard to find these days and she treats her customers like family. I have no hesitation in recommending her for both men and women who want to look their best, whether it is for a special occasion or just because it’s Thursday.

Carol is great! She’s so sweet, super detailed, and very experienced. I would highly recommend her for any alterations that you might have.
It’s a really scary thing to have to turn over your wedding dress to a complete stranger. But luckily, I was referred to Carol by the store that I purchased my wedding dress from.
My dress is also completely lace, which is a lot more complicated to hem. So, i was also a little worried about that. But the minute I arrived at Carol’s, I was certain I was in good hands. She is really good at explaining all the steps and showing your different options.

Carol Redman is a consummate professional. My appointment with her was at her home in Georgetown, and I knew when I walked in that I had the right woman to alter my wedding dress. Carol is a gracious, warm, and funny woman, and what a dressmaker. She not only hemmed the dress so that it draped perfectly, she advised me on undergarments and completely corrected the look of the bodice. It was what I had dreamed that dress would look like when I bought it, not the «almost good enough» fit that it had before she altered it.
Carol is a woman of contradictions. She has been a dressmaker for 35 years, and during my fitting, she used two French phrases to describe the cut and fabric of my dress I’d never heard before, and I had to ask my mother later what they meant. But Carol is also very down to earth, no pretensions going on there. You are fitted in a room under a picture of Jesus, and when her cell phone rings, the ringtone is a George Jones tune. She has a wicked sense of humor, and she made what could have been a nerve-​racking task feel like a visit to a good friend. She said she was one of the first female employees at a steel mill decades earlier. This is a woman who takes pride in her work, and it shows. If I do say so myself, the fit of the dress was gorgeous on my wedding day, and I have Carol to thank for that.
Two other seamstresses in the Austin area had given me cost estimates for altering the dress that were four times what Carol charged me (because it is a «couture» gown), so I gave her a generous bonus. The receipt she gave me was handwritten in her beautiful handwriting and had a crocheted angel attached to it.
She is just a lovely woman, and she knows many «womanly» tricks to make the most of the female form.