Loula’s Pewter and White Dress Gets Fitting-Ready
The blue is out and the white is in! It was pretty much unanimous that the Silver Swirl fabric looked excellent with the white overlay and so-so with the blue overlay. Loula and I decided to use the blue tulle as petticoats for a fun flash of color! We both loved the way that the […]
Fabric Shopping with Loula
Loula and I visited two fabric stores while she was in town for her first fitting. Usually the first fabric shopping trip comes a little earlier in the process when we are still working out the design of the dress. Since Loula is from out of state, this was actually our first time really diving […]
First Fittings by Mail
Loula lives in New Orleans and I live in North Carolina, and since she is my best friend, I tried some new ways to handle long-distance fittings for her custom wedding dress. I started out creating a basic no-design draft of Loula’s measurements, whipping it up in muslin with a big zipper up the back, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]