How to design your own wedding dress by dresses-shopping

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19/08/2011 10:41
How to design your own wedding dress by
dresses-shopping
As you probably have begun to realize, planning thought. If you've priced wedding dresses, you'll be
a wedding is both exciting and often more
aware that even low-end brands may cost over 5
than a little nerve-wracking. Preparing for a
or 6 hundred dollars. Dresses sold by bridal shops
ceremony as special as a wedding is plenty of cause
tend to include a lot of overhead and additional
for excitement and anticipation. However, there is
costs which you can avoid by designing your own
so much to do and, most likely, since you'll want it
wedding dress. If you have a friend or relative who
to all go perfectly that's plenty of cause for anxiety
is well-skilled in sewing, you can save even more
and stressed nerves. And when you consider that it
money. One of the greatest benefits of designing
isn't the kind of thing we do on a regular basis, nor
your own wedding dress is that you will end up
something that we normally have any training for,
with a true one of a kind, a wedding dress no one
you need to ease up a little on the quest for perfec-
else owns.
tion and try to focus on the excitement.
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 until the last minute to do. You'll need to
spend some significant time working with this per-
son - well in advance of the wedding - so make sure
of both the person's skills and availability.
A good place to start generating ideas for your wed-
ding dress design is to consider the theme of the wed-
ding and when and where it'll be held. Is it going to
be a summer wedding? A winter wedding? Will it be
outdoors or indoors? Will the reception be indoors
Your wedding dress is likely to be the most signi-
or outdoors? What special characteristics does the
ficant component of the wedding ceremony. Eve-
location have? This is particularly important for
ryone's eyes will be on the bride. Whatever style of
an outdoor wedding since the answers can have a
wedding you settle on, you'll find that there's a lot
significant bearing on the style of wedding dress
of traditions that relate to the wedding ceremony
you design. As an example, an outdoor wedding in
- even with some of the more unusual themed wed-
Texas in the month of August requires a wedding
dings. Still, there is room for you to add your own
dress design that will not leave you soaked in pers-
special touches - to make your wedding uniquely
piration. You should also consider how formal or
print
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informal the wedding ceremony itself will be.
If you've never thought about actually designing
If you don't already have some ideas for a design, a
your own wedding dress, you should give it some
good place to start may be with bridal magazines,
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How to design your own wedding dress by dresses-shopping
wedding dress catalogs and even on-line bridal
somewhat uncomfortable and not particularly
shops. All these can be good sources for ideas to
popular. If you feel uncertain about what shape
use in designing your own wedding dress.
may work best for you, you can always visit a bridal
shop and try on several styles to find the one that
While you are always free to design your wedding
appeals most to you.
dress to reflect your personal style, most likely you'll
want to follow one of the standard shapes generally
Once you have chosen the shape, design and style
used for uniqueA wedding dresses:
for your wedding dress, you are ready to consider
the type of material. Silk and linen are both com-
A-line - Empire - Straight - Ball Gown - Mermaid
monly used in creating wedding dresses. Both can
- Strapless.
be fairly costly and linen, in particular, tends to be
quite delicate and require considerable care when
The shape of your body is an important factor in
putting the wedding dress together. There are also
choosing a wedding dress shape that is most ap-
blended materials which use silk or linen along with
propriate for you. If you have a full figure, or what
other man-made materials allowing the creation of
is considered a "pear" shape, an A-line style dress
a fabric which is both beautiful and substantially
may work best for you. A dress with this style ac-
easier to work with.
cents the top-half of the body which is smaller while
concealing a larger bottom half.
Not many women
tend to opt for a
custom wedding
dressesA , inclu-
ding women with
coke-bottleA
fi-
gures for whom
this style of wed-
ding 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 exagge-
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A strapless style can be integrated with several
shapes. The so-called mermaid style tends to be
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