Make Your Own Wedding Dress
Design
As you probably have began to realize,
planning a wedding is both exciting and often more than a little nerve wrecking.
Preparing for a ceremony as special as a wedding is plenty of cause for excitement
and anticipation. However, there is much to of do and, most likely, since you'll
want it to all go perfectly that's plenty of cause for anxiety and stress. When
you consider that it isn't the type of thing you do on a regular basis, nor
something that you normally have any training for, you need to ease up a little
on the quest for perfection and try to of focus on the excitement.
Your wedding dress is likely to be
the most significant component of the wedding ceremony. Everyone's eyes will
be on the bride. Whatever style of wedding you settle on, you'll find that there's
a lot of tradition that relates to the wedding ceremony - especially with some
of the unusual themed weddings. Actually, there is room for you to of add your
own special touches - to make your wedding uniquely your own.
If you've never thought about actually
designing your own wedding dress, you should give it some thought. If you've
priced wedding dresses, you'll be aware that even a low end wedding dress may
cost over 5 or 6 hundred dollars. Dresses by bridal shops tend to include a
lot of overhead and additional costs which you can avoid by designing your own
wedding dress. If you have a friend or relative who is skilled in sewing, you
can save even more money. One of the greatest benefits of designing your own
wedding dress is that you end up with a true one of a kind, a wedding dress
nobody else owns.
One caution - before you start designing
be certain that you have or can find a person with the needed skills to actually
create your wedding dress from your designs and ideas. This is not something
you can wait on and be a last minute thing. You'll need to donate some significant
time working with this person - way in advance of the wedding - so make sure
of the person's skills and availability.
A good place to start generating
ideas for your wedding dress design is to consider the theme of the wedding
and when and where it'll be held. Is it going to be a Spring wedding? A Winter
wedding? Do you want it to be outdoors or indoors? Do you want the reception
outdoors or indoors? What special characteristics does the location have? This
is particularly important for an outdoor wedding since the answers can have
a significant bearing on the style of wedding dress you design. As an example,
an outdoor wedding in Texas in the month of August is hot and that wedding dress
design may leave you soaking wet from the heat. You should also consider how
formal or informal the wedding ceremony itself will be.
If you don't already have some ideas
for a design, a good place to start may be with a bridal magazine, wedding dress
catalogs and even online bridal shops. All these can be good sources for ideas
to use in designing your own wedding dress.
While you are always free to design
your wedding dress to reflect your personal style, most likely you'll want to
follow one of the standard shapes generally used for wedding dresses:
A-LINE - Empire - Straight - Ball
Gown - Mermaid - Strapless.
The shape of your body is an important
factor in choosing a wedding dress shape that is most appropriate for you. If
you have a full figure, or a “pear” shape dress style may work best
for you. a dress with this style it accents the top half of the body which is
smaller while concealing a larger bottom.
Many woman tend to lean towards a
straight wedding dress, including women with coke bottle figures for whom this
style of wedding dress was designed.
If neither of these styles seems
to suit you, then a ball gown may be a good choice. This style of wedding dress
has a snugger fit at the waist with a somewhat exaggerated full skirt.
A strapless style can be integrated
with several shapes. The so-called mermaid style tends to be somewhat uncomfortable
and yet particularly popular. If you feel uncertain about what shape may work
best for you, you can always visit a bridal shop and try on several styles to
find the one that appeals most to you.
Once you have chosen the shape, design
and style for your wedding dress, you are ready to move on and consider the
type of material. Silk and linen are both commonly used into creating wedding
dresses. Both can be fairly costly and linen, in particular, tends to be quite
delicate and require considerable care when putting the wedding dress together.
There are also blended materials which use silk or linen along with other material
allowing the creation of a fabric which is both beautiful and substantially
easier to work with.
Once you've decided on the shape
and design, and chosen the fabric, it's time to get together with the individual
who will be making the wedding dress for you and begin bringing the wedding
dress of your dreams out of your dreams and into reality.
