Loula’s Final Fitting
Back in August, about a month before her wedding, Loula traveled again to North Carolina for her final fitting. The dress was still unfinished, with certain parts left basted in case there were any last minute adjustments. Basically, there weren’t! The dress and bustier fit very well and only very slight tweaks were made for […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lila Rose’s Wedding Day!
Lila Rose is now a married lady!!! Lila Rose’s wedding day was perfect! It was held in Ohio on the playground of her elementary school. The wedding was a complete DIY affair. I was the only wedding professional they hired for any aspect of the wedding. Each of the guests were given a specific task, […]