Sketching and the Design Proposal Website
After our fun Design Consultation, I couldn’t wait to start brainstorming and sketching Margaret’s custom mother-of-the-bride dress. I have a large cutting table where I spread out all of our favorite images and our beautiful fabric. I took some posed photos of Margaret during our meeting. I looked through those and printed out the one […]
Margaret’s Design Consultation and Pinterest
In last week’s post I mentioned that even though bespoke dressmaking is an old and traditional art, I love using modern tools to make the experience more fun and stress free. One of my favorite modern tools is Pinterest. Once I read Margaret’s questionnaire answers, and spoke to her in person at our free Initial […]
My Questionnaire: Getting to Know Margaret
Margaret is a free-spirited woman with a smile that can light up a room. She had some ideas for her mother-of-the-bride dress, but was open and eager to hear what I thought would be good choices for her. I found out that her main reason for wanting to commission this dress was because she knew […]
Meet Margaret!
Happy 2013 everyone!!! I’ve been a little absent from the blog lately, but I’m really excited to finally introduce you to Margaret! She will be wearing the next Brooks Ann Camper Bridal Couture original dress for her daughter’s wedding in March. Yes, I know that I normally only work with brides on bridal dresses, and […]
New and Improved Website Launch!
Today is launch day for my brand new website! I’m so proud of what Linda at Ruby Red Design Studio and I have created together, and I couldn’t wait to show it off to everyone! If you are reading this post somewhere other than the website please check out www.BrooksAnn.com! And if you’re already here, […]
Working with a Designer – from each perspective
I constantly get compliments on my website. I appreciate the praise because of the thought and care that I have put into it. I have yet to spend any money on advertising, but I have invested in having a wonderful website, where people who find me can find out lots of information about me, my […]
Retrospective: The making of a dress, a blog & a business
Leah’s wedding dress was the first real wedding dress that I created for someone I did not already know. It’s funny to think of it that way, because since working with her on her dress, Leah has become one of my most treasured friends and someone I hope to always have as a part […]
Retrospective: My Own Raw Silk & Cotton Lace Wedding Dress
Yes, I made my own wedding dress. After making his sister Katie’s wedding dress and his sister Melissa’s wedding dress, I got engaged to my wonderful amazing handsome husband Charles. Our wedding was held on the afternoon of the Ides of March 2008. It was our seven year Kissaversary. So what does the wedding dressmaker […]
Retrospective: Melissa’s Silk Chiffon Maternity Wedding Dress
As you may remember from my first “retrospective blog post” last week, the first real wedding dress that I ever made was for my (now) husband Charles’s sister Katie. Well, Charles has more than one sister! Not long after Katie’s wedding, his sister Melissa announced her engagement. I had such a great experience working with […]