Waiting to see Loula (and her dress)!
Whew! Where was I?? I’ve been away from blogging for weeks and I’ve been way behind on sharing with you the process of creating my best friend Loula’s wedding dress! I’m still unwinding from the amazing incredible fantastic weekend I had in New Orleans for Loula’s wedding day. We had an absolute blast. She looked […]
Loula’s custom wedding dress sketch!
THE ONE! From the many images that we shared with each other on Pinterest, down to the two preliminary sketches, we finally ended up with ^this^ revised sketch as THE design for Loula’s custom wedding dress. Basically this new design is a bit of a simplified version of the best of both of the […]
Testing new ideas onto Loula’s two sketches
I showed Loula the two sketches for her custom wedding dress and she was in love. In fact, she was so in love that she didn’t know which to choose! Luckily she has her very own wedding dress designer to help her choose and/or modify the two sketches into The One. Loula and I looked […]
Two Sketches for Loula’s custom wedding dress
After playing around adding images to our Pinterest group board, I narrowed the inspirations for Loula’s custom wedding dress down a bit. I added our absolute favorites into a Pinterest board called “For Loula (for Real).” I began to see that there were two competing styles: an architectural style and a romantic style. Since there […]
Getting Inspired!
I visited my best friend Loula in New Orleans late last year to start delving into creating her custom wedding dress. We had each been using Pinterest to share favorite images, and now it was time to sort through them a bit, take some measurements, and (a first for both of us) go to bridal […]
My best friend’s custom wedding dress: Introducing Loula!
The custom wedding dress I’ve been working on recently is one that is very special to me and I can’t wait to share its story with you! I’m currently creating the dress for the upcoming wedding of my best friend from college. Meet Loula!!! Where do I even begin??? Loula and I met in 1993 […]
Mary’s Wedding Day!
Mary’s wedding day had finally arrived and Sarah Der Photography was there to shoot these amazing images! Regardless if this is your first time to my blog, or if you’ve been following along since I started writing about the creation of Margaret’s-custom-mother-of-the-bride ensemble all the way until last week’s post about her daughter Mary’s custom […]
Mary’s organza jacket and dogwood accessories!
Back in December when I first met with Margaret to start brainstorming ideas for her custom mother-of-the-bride dress, I asked if the bride Mary would sit in on our consultation. I wanted to make sure that Margaret’s look would fit well into the wedding, and who better to ask than the bride!? I also knew […]
Margaret’s Delivery Day Photo Shoot!
I visited Margaret’s beautiful home for the Delivery of her custom Brooks Ann Camper Bridal Couture mother-of-the-bride ensemble. Her husband had just finished handcrafting an amazing deck overlooking their backyard. I brought my camera and took these snapshots of Margaret wearing her one-of-a-kind dress and jacket for the first time!