How To Design A Wedding Dress
Designing your own wedding dress can make a wedding even more personal and unique. There is nothing quite like walking down the aisle as a bride knowing that everyone is admiring the dress that you designed! Of course there is the down side that if things go wrong, they can go horribly wrong. If you follow the tips below hopefully you’ll come out with a wedding dress to be proud of.
If you’ve spent hours and hours looking for the perfect dress but never finding one that quite fits your description, then designing a wedding dress may be the perfect answer.
1. If you aren’t a practiced designer yourself, you need to find someone who can bring your designs to life. There is nothing more frustrating than having the ultimate dress concept in your head except being unable to realise it because you don’t have a skilled designer to get what you want. I would recommend getting a paid desinger at this stage, because they will not take it personally if you don’t like the dress they create for you.
2. You need to start planning the dress early, but at the same time you need to at least know the theme of the wedding before you can really start to find a dress that fits around it. Start collecting cuttings, pictures, colours, anything that might be udea in an idea for a wedding dress. There are plenty of wedding dress websites and magazines where you can look at previous designs to get ideas.
3. An important part of the design process is choosing the fabric of the dress. If you want silk you’ll have to pay more for the material and the skilled worker to create it. There are less expensive options if you would prefer though.
4. Remember this is your wedding - you don’t have to stick to tradition if you don’t want to! You could go for a dark, stunning colour if you wanted. Just make sure it dits the theme.
5. Work out what you want from a dress. Do you want it to be traditional? Racy? Sexy? You need to make these big decisions first before deciding on the subtle features of the dress.
6. Choose a dress shape that best suits your body size and shape. The great hting about being able to design a wedding dress is that the professional designer should be able to fit the dress specifically for you.
7. Even if you don’t plan on buying a store bought dress, you can always go and try them on to see which ones suit you best. You’ll be able to get an idea of the embroidery, body shape and colours that you would like. This can help immensely and can also be a lot of fun!
8. Consider adding extras to your dress such as crystals, lace and beads. These add cost to the dress but can really help a dress to stand out and become unique.
Most of all, you need to make sure you give yourself plenty of time when it comes to designing the dress. Get opinoins from all kinds of drss professionals, and don’t be afriad or too proud to ask for help. There is a lot to think about, and for someone who has never designed a dress before it can be a daunting task!
Giving yourself the maximum amount of time to plan the dress can be the difference between a stunning success and en embarrassing failure. This is definitely something you don’t want to rush otherwise there could be disastorous consequences. A unique wedding dress can really add something extra to a wedding though and can be a wonderful thing to do. Hopefully this has given you some idea on how to design a wedding dress, now get to work!
February 11th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
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