Amber's Alterations and Assortments

14/05/2025

Happy Wednesday everyone!

I am back in the office and responding to all the messages I received while on vacation. If you were waiting on a response from me and don't receive one by Friday, please send another message so that it bumps you to the top of my feed.

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03/05/2025

Good morning everyone!

I will be out of the office now through May 13. I will only be checking in once or twice during my vacation, so please expect longer wait times between when you send a message and receive a response.

Have a great weekend!

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24/04/2025

A Heartfelt Goodbye from Dior Bridal Salon
To our beloved customers, friends, and community,
After more than five decades of helping brides find their dream gowns and a business icon in the Dearborn community, it is with a heavy heart that we announce the closing of Dior Bridal Salon. Since 1969, the Schlaff family has been honored to be a part of so many love stories, and we are endlessly grateful for your trust and support over the years. With Barbara’s announcement of her retirement, we had an offer for our beautiful building that David Schlaff built and designed exactly 21 years ago this week. We decided that the timing was perfect and thus Kimberly has decided to join her mother in retirement so that they can enjoy the things they love most in life - family, friends, golf, gardening and traveling.
To mark the closing of this incredible chapter, we will be holding a Storewide Sample Sale for customers! ALL ITEMS in the store will be available at DEEP discounted prices—this is a rare opportunity to find your dream dress or accessory at an incredible value especially now as tariffs are rocking the bridal world.
We invite you to visit us before our final days at the end of June to take advantage of this sale, reminisce, and say farewell.
If you have an outstanding order with us, we PROMISE that we will deliver your gown to you as soon as they come to us. Our seamstress will also be available to you for any alterations that will be needed from her home in Canton. If your gown is currently in storage with us at Dior, please contact us as soon as possible so we can assist you in picking up your gown before the end of June.
Though Dior Bridal Salon is closing, the memories and joy we’ve shared with each and every one of you will remain in our hearts forever.
With love and gratitude,
The Schlaff Family & Dior Bridal Salon Team

27/08/2024

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Pond! Thank you for trusting me to help make your ceremony special! Wishing you many years of love and happiness!

Need something made? Something altered? Need a wedding officiant? Contact Amber’s Alterations and Assortments today!

20/08/2024

Scroll to see what this duvet cover became!

…Parts of the tote bags I made for Christmas gifts last year! All are reversible, except for the two in the very last picture.

As with the other tote bags, I loved being able to utilize some of the materials I already had! I continued to use the duvet cover and receiving blankets to make the straps, I also used the duvet cover to help quilt together some of the pieces for the bag itself, and I used several fabrics I had on hand to make other various parts of some of the other bags!

Want to give your loved one a useful gift? Have some fabric you want to upcycle? Ready to start your Christmas shopping? Reach out to us today!

19/08/2024

We are more than halfway through August! And that’s means we are only a short while away from the holiday season!

Take a look at two of the tote bags I made last Christmas as gifts for two of my child’s service providers! One is an Office Fan, and the other is a Disney fan!

The Office bag was made with material I had leftover from when I was making masks, along with material I got from one of my neighbors when she switched over her classroom theme. And the straps on both bags were made from an old duvet cover and a receiving blanket for durability!

I loved being able to both give appreciation to the people who work so hard to help our family and to utilize some fabrics I already had!

The last picture shows the other items I set inside for their gifts! I did a bottle of wine, a bath bomb, a tumbler, and I made each of them a rice pack! The rice packs can be kept in the freezer and used as an “ice pack” to help with swelling, headaches, and other aches and pains, or put in the microwave and used as a heating pad!

Ready to start your Christmas shopping? Reach out to us today!

13/08/2024

Check out this repair I did to a Jean skirt last fall! We patched the back to add strength and repaired the front to prevent fraying, without losing any of the width of the skirt!

Need something made? Something altered? Need a wedding officiant? Contact Amber’s Alterations and Assortments today!

09/08/2024

Take a look at this before, during, and after!
Their bridesmaid reached out to me and asked if there was anything I could do with her dress. The manufacturer had clearly made it wrong. It’s difficult to see in the first picture, but the overlay material was sewn unevenly, , the pleats weren’t done properly and the fit was baggy.

I pinned the pleats in place on the client as well as how tight we wanted the overlay to be, in the photo with my fingers, you can see how uneven it was! Then I removed the bodice from the skirt, seam ripped out the seams for the pleating, laid everything the way I had discussed with my client and got to sewing!

The last picture is the final product. It’s kind of hard to see, but she was so happy with the result! The first and last photos were provided by my client!

Need something made? Something altered? Need a wedding officiant? Contact Amber’s Alterations and Assortments today!

06/08/2024

Take a look at this beautiful bride I had the pleasure of doing alterations for!

In the first photo, you can see me pinning a corset back in to figure out the best placement for us and how much we needed to take the dress in, I also always take a photo of any lace before I remove it. Since I was taking this dress in at the sides and removing the zipper, you can see the original lace patterns of those areas in the first and third photos. In the third photo, if you look closely, you can also see the folded mark and the mark I made with my invisible pen of how much we were going to take in. I actually went an inch beyond that! The second photo shows the lace removed and pinned to the side for the areas I was taking in.

The next two photos are of the dress on the day it was picked up by the bride, with the last three photos being from her wedding day! (Wedding photos shared with permission from the couple’s fantastic photographer, )

Here’s what we did:

🧵 Peeled the lace, Took each side seam in 2”, then reattached
🪡 Took in several inches from the back
🧵 Converted Zipper closure to Corset Closure
🪡 Opened the Side Seams and added POCKETS!!
🧵 Added memory heart patches to one of the pockets
🪡 Hemmed it a few inches

All of the alterations took the dress from a size 22 to about a size 16!

She absolutely loved the final result and it fit her like a dream. 🥰

If you need a wedding dress altered, or want to add pockets or a memory patch, please reach out, I would love to assist you!

01/08/2024

Did you know one of the services I offer is to add a patch to your wedding gown?

In the first photo is a patch I added of the scraps from the hem of the wedding gown with the badge number of the bride’s partner embroidered on it. We sewed it upside down on the hem so she could easily show it for photos.

The next few photos show where I cut out a heart shape from another bride’s late mom’s tshirt, embroidered “Mom” on it, then used fabric from her late dad’s shirt to patch the hole. Her mom’s tshirt was one of the very few things she had from her and she wanted it preserved as best as we could.

Finally the last photo, shows how patches from both her mom and dad’s shirts were added to the left pocket of her wedding dress so that they both wouldn’t be seen unless she wanted them to be, and so that they could “warm” her wedding ring, putting love and good energy into her marriage.

If you’ve lost a loved one, or just want to honor a living loved one by including piece of them into your wedding attire, please reach out and send a message! We would love to make a patch to help you feel close to your loved on on your special day!

Last photo was taken by and shared with permission from:

18/07/2024

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Take a look at this pillowcase and these cute Popsicle holders I made for one of my nieces for her birthday last year! I popped a box of popsicles with it, and she was one happy kiddo!

Need something made? Something altered? Need a wedding officiant? Contact Amber’s Alterations and Assortments today!

16/07/2024

Here’s a wedding dress I altered last year for my Sister-in-law!

This is one of those dresses that I completely forgot to take any photos of except for this one. At this point we had already done a lot of work to the dress to take it in and make it fit like a glove! This picture shows the pinning of the straps to shorten them and pinning up the bustle to give her an idea of what it would look like once it was finished.

Need something altered? Need a wedding officiant? Contact Amber’s Alterations and Assortments today!