Adding sleeves to wedding dress

I COULD ONLY UPLOAD ONE PHOTO, HERE IS MY DRESS:

AND THE BACK:

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Your dress is lovely. I would speak with an experienced seamstress about adding sleeves.

You dress is beautiful. My dress had 3/4 sleeves and I loved it, but it came that way so I'm not sure what it would be like to add them.

No advice, sorry, but your dress is gorgeous.

You can add a topper. One of my friends did it and took it off for the receiption.

Another topper.

Of course I plan on asking a seamstress, I just thought some opinions or hearing of similar experiences might be helpful.

And the topper is a great idea - I just didn't think it would work since my dress has a shear skin tone later on the front to allow for the illusion back (it's hard to tell in the photo - I'll try to show a new picture here)

The back of your dress is gorgeous. Could you contact the designer to see if you could purchase the same sheer fabric to create the sleeves out of?

Purchase matching lace or fabric from the designer for your sleeves.

The back is so pretty, but I am not sure how the front would look. You might need to cover the sheer nude fabric so that the sleeves look like they're actually a part of the dress.

Please be advised it is expensive. You have to pay for the fabric and the work it takes is quite a bit. I wanted to do it with my gown and it almost doubled the total cost of my dress.

JSARGE, thank you! That was really helpful. (& everyone else who has replied)

I'm having flutter sleeves built. I bought extra lace from the dress and my seamstress is getting illusion fabric. I just had my fitting last week, so theyre not done yet. But it's definitely possible.

My dress came with a matching jacket with peasant like sleeves that were large at the bottom, I loved it!

My only advice, as PP have already said, is to expect a large alterations bill.

Just wanted to stop by to say I love your dress! Sorry no advice on adding sleeves, but I think it looks gorgeous the way it is!

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I like those toppers! I hate my arms and I love dresses with sleeves anyway so that was the plan but FSIL has a sleeveless dress that fits me like a glove so maybe I'll go the topper route.

Wow, I paid $6/yd for english net. The markup from designers must be high!

Id recommend asking your designer to send extra lace. I think an illusion 3/4 sleeve would look gorgeous with that dress.