soho shorts construction

I am working on a pair of Soho shorts. It has gone together really well until now. I am trying to sew the waistband to the shorts but the front waistband is about 2 inches longer than the shorts. The back is perfectly fine. Now since there are pleats my first course of action was to look back at the pattern pieces to see if I did something wrong, but it looks like the pleats are where they are supposed to be. So whatever I did wrong I can't figure out. All I can think of is maybe the center pleat is too large. The back of that pleat measures about 2.5 inches across. Any ideas? Jennifer