Past Brides, did your bustle break? good info to future brides

Mine broke and it was a hand made, custom gown. I have a funny photo of a inebriated friend trying to help "fix it" by stuffing my train down into the back of my bodice! However, I danced all night long. I genuinely don''t think any bustle could have withstood all the bouncing around I did.

Make sure you have pins in an emergency kit, and make sure they are sturdy pins. My train would have bent any small pins.

Most brides I have know said their bustles broke.  I only have one tie for my bustle so I asked for extra backups just in case.  We will see at my next fitting how that works.

I said that my bustle broke but I suppose technically it didn''t, but my dress is permanently damaged from the bustle points and getting stepped on. My dress was two layers of silk organza over the lining. I got stepped on A LOT. In hindsight, I would have had the seamstress pull my bustle up more so it barely brushed the floor. Every time my dress got stepped on it pulled the little stitch where my bustle points were through the delicate organza. I now have HOLES in my train. I was going to try to re-sell my gown but I think that I will just keep it. Might be good to tell you that my bustle was a French style with 5 points (a ring and a set of ribbons to tie on to the ring).

Didn''t break..but did come undone at one point after I did a lot of dancing and had to be rebustled lol. But it held overall. She did I think an 8-point french bustle?

My bustle broke but only because the seamstress didn''t make it ''quite'' short enough and my mom stepped on it and tore it....way to go mom....

Nope, but mine definitely was too long.  I kept stepping on it during the dancing, and it (1) was really annoying, and (2) got incredibly dirty.

Yup, mine broke as well. My wedding planner tried sewing it mid-reception, but everyone was still stepping on it. So now I have a beautiful Vera Wang gown with tears all in the train  

My ends of my train was designed to tie to separate points on the back of the gown. Hubby stepped on one side and ripped it from its tie. I ended up throwing the train over my arm and walking around it with the rest of the night. Luckily, it was lace and not very heavy.

Eeek! That sounds scary. I hope mine doesn''t break...

I don''t know what kind of bustle I had, but it had 16 ribbons underneath that tied into eight knots. My husband tied them up right after the ceremony (in Jewish tradition, the couple spends about 30 minutes together alone between the ceremony and the reception). None came undone and the bustle was perfect all night.

Several of my girlfriends had bustles that broke, especially if they were buttons or hooks.

I had an 8-point french bustle and all of the ties except for one broke. The first one or two broke maybe 3 hours into the night? But my reception was more of a dinner-party reception, no real dancing, so I was surprised. Once one or two went, though, they all seemed to go! I was carrying my dress around by the end of the night, but I didn''t really mind.

I had an overlay of lace on my gown, with buttons and hooks to hold up the bustle, but we never found two of the hooks in all the fabric, so after about 25 mins., we finally resorted to pinning it up...it worked fine and held all night.

It took 20 minutes for my mom and a friend to bustle my dress, but  once it was done it stayed put the entire evening and it looked beautiful.

The back of my gown/train was kind of weird shape, so a traditional bustle didn''t work on my dress (unless I wanted a big butt-pouff, which I did not).  So, instead of a bustle, I had a loop sewn into the underside of the train that I hung around my wrist when I wanted the train off the floor and essentially "carried" it.  It was actually pretty fun to have it looped around my wrist and the loop stayed attached all night (plus made for some fun first dance photos).  So, that could be an alternative to a bustle for those of you who have shorter trains (I don''t think it would work for a long train unless you have reeeally long arms ;) 

I voted that mine didn''t break and stayed up all night because as far as I knew, that was what happened! I had A LOT of satin ribbons sewn into my gown for my bustle, I can''t remember if it was 16 or 24 sets, but it was a lot.

They all stayed in place except for one, which tore a bit where it was sewn in. I stepped on my dress quite a bit that night when we went to the fireworks, so I think that is when it must have happened. Otherwise, my experience with the bustle ties being sewn in with tie ribbons was fantastic.

My bustle was up almost the entire day. I think my skirt was down for an hour total. Had no issue with it. Zipper broke though. NO plastic zippers.

My best friends bustle kept on coming undone. I plan to have a bustle put in, but in reality I will probably just hold it up with it''s little tie. There is something about holding up your wedding gown, I know it''s not practical but it looks so darn fabulous in pics when the bride has gracefully got her train linked onto her hand. Ahhh, can''t wait!!!

WOW! I am so surprised at these results...I think bustles are great in theory, but if you dance AT ALL, it won''t hold.

At first, I wanted an under-bustle...but I had to switch seamstresses (long, irritating story) and the second one wouldn''t do it the way I wanted. Anyway...I wonder if my bustle wouldn''t have broken had it been done the way _I_ wanted??

Date: 7/13/2009 6:18:43 PM
Author: KimberlyH
It took 20 minutes for my mom and a friend to bustle my dress, but once it was done it stayed put the entire evening and it looked beautiful.

Mine was the same-it took a while to bustle it up but once it was, it stayed perfect for the night.