Finishing Erin’s Seersucker Wedding Dress
After Erin’s basted fitting, it was finally time to FINISH THE DRESS! As you can see in the photo above, I had done a lot of the lining before the fitting, but still had some finishing work to do. While it’s fun to peek at all the hidden couture guts of the dress, like the […]
Erin’s Basted Fitting
Yay! Erin’s seersucker wedding dress was finally ready for her basted fitting! For this fitting, some parts of her dress were completely finished and others were lightly basted together so that we can easily make final adjustments. Up until now all of our fittings were in muslin, so I couldn’t wait for Erin to see […]
Creating Erin’s Beachy Bridal Belt
As you may recall from Erin’s design proposal and sketch, her custom wedding dress included a unique belt. Erin shared a few Alabama Chanin appliqué inspirations during our design consultation as something she was interested in incorporating into her wedding look. While an entire hand embellished dress was out of her budget, the frugal choice […]
Erin’s Wedding Dress Takes Shape
After Erin’s mockup fittings, the fabric for her custom wedding dress was cut and underlined. If you are wondering about the hot pink, see my previous post showing how you can change the color tint of a fabric by the choice of underlining. Finally, it was time to start sewing and basting her actual dress […]
Erin’s Unusual Underlining
Having flashbacks of Lila Rose’s custom wedding dress? Contrary to how it looks in these photos, I am not making another hot pink wedding dress. So what’s this color all about? Underlining to change a fabric’s color If you remember from Erin’s design consultation, we both fell in love with a white-on-white seersucker for her summer […]
Erin’s Mockup Fittings
Though I sketched Erin’s custom wedding dress using her unique silhouette and I used an extensive set of her measurements to create a Size-Erin dressform when drafting her patterns, there’s still plenty of work to be done before moving into the real fabric when making something one-of-a-kind. I created a mockup dress out of inexpensive fabrics […]
Creating Erin’s Patterns and Mockup
After working with bride-to-be Erin in our design consultation and sketching a custom design onto her figure, I couldn’t wait to hear her thoughts. I was so excited when she accepted the commission saying “I LOVE the design and how you incorporated all our ideas!” (After I jumped up and down a few times), it was […]
Sketching Erin’s Custom Wedding Dress
After our design consultation, I continued to brainstorm ideas for Erin’s custom wedding dress. In order to see what design elements would look like on Erin, I started to sketch out ideas onto her unique silhouette. When a bride goes into a wedding dress store, she can try on dresses to see how they look on her. […]
Meet Erin: My Seersucker Summer Bride!
As it starts to get cold, it sure is nice to think about summer! Gin and tonics… BLTs… beach trips… seersucker… Earlier this year, I worked with a bride who got married on the beach in June. I’m excited to share the story of the design and creation of Erin’s custom wedding dress![separator] Bride-to-be Erin contacted […]
