Kate Middleton's wedding dressmaker said the duchess was 'so incredibly normal' at her gown fittings

• Chloe Savage helped make Kate Middleton's custom Alexander McQueen wedding dress.
• Savage told Insider that she met Middleton during her dress fittings.
• "She's so incredibly normal," Savage said. "She really is! She's had a much more normal upbringing."

Meeting the future Queen of England could easily be a stressful experience, but the woman who helped make Kate Middleton's wedding dress said it was quite the opposite.

Chloe Savage, who did the embroidery on Middleton's custom Alexander McQueen gown, told Insider that she was pleasantly surprised when she met the Duchess of Cambridge during her dress fittings.

"She's so incredibly normal!" Savage said. "She really is! Where I live in Bristol isn't far from Prince Charles' estate, and he has a reputation for being uppity. But Kate is so normal."

While Middleton is now a member of the royal family, Savage believes that her upbringing helped her stay down to earth.

"She's had a much more normal upbringing," she added. "She's dealt with people and been to parties without a full entourage of security guards. Charles and the boys' upbringing was, of course, much more secured in that sense. They weren't going to be found in the local pub."

Savage was at the Royal School of Needlework when she was asked to help with Middleton's wedding dress.

"We got a cryptic email saying, 'Are you available between these dates? We're short on embroiderers. We've got a big project coming in,"' Savage recalled.

"When the bombshell dropped it was like, 'Oooh!' because we knew who the designer was and everything else at that point, which nobody else in the world did."

Middleton's custom wedding dress, designed by Alexander McQueen's creative director Sarah Burton, featured floral embroidery on the sleeves that paid homage to the UK. The roses, thistles, daffodils, and shamrocks represented the four national emblems of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

Savage helped appliqué all the lace to Middleton's gown and shoes, and also worked on her blue silk and white lace garter.

"Kate's was beautiful handmade lace, it was absolutely divine to work with," she recalled. "It was beautifully fitted."

Savage - who literally bumped into Prince Philip once when she was a child - also worked on Meghan Markle's wedding dress years later.

She wasn't in the office when Markle came in to see her dress, but Savage did work on the 16-foot veil that Markle paired with her custom Givenchy gown.

While Savage doesn't have a clear favorite when it comes to Middleton's and Markle's iconic wedding dresses, she loves how each gown "symbolized who they are."

"Kate's was demure and very clean, but she's not a flashy person - if you know what I mean," Savage said.

"Meghan's is more flashy, off-the-shoulder was far more risque," she added. "But then she's a risk-taker by comparison. It showcases their personalities."