Flower Girl Dress

This is the Flower Girl dress for the same wedding as the post for the lace beaded jacket.



Lace Jacket

This is a lace beaded jacket along with sash that I hand stiched beaded trim onto.  I also made a bright blue sash, but failed to take a picture.



Change it Up

The dress is one of the many reasons that I now try to take before and after pictures.  I really wish you could see what this dress looked like before I worked on it. 

This wedding gown was originally completely straight.  There were no tucks, straps, or additional layers to the dress.  The beautiful bride really wanted a dress with tucks, and wanted straps.  I created tucks with the bottom layer of fabric and the tulle on top.  I also added another layer underneath the dress in order to make it long enough in the front.  I also added straps to the dress and added a halter strap as well so that she could use either one on her big day.  Adding all of the tucks in the back also worked as a bustle.  In the top picture you can also see a piece of removable lace that was added because the bodice was low cut.

There are a lot of things you can do to make a gown your dream gown! 



*I just received this picture from the bride.  Her mom took it at the bridal store when they bought it.  It was fun to see after so much time because I had forgotten exactly what it looked like.  There was also a belt sewn onto the dress (that is hidden by her arms) that I took off.  So now you can see the before and the after!

Dress too small?

This dress was shipped to the bride from her mother and when she tried it on (4 days before the wedding) she found that the dress was a little over 2 inches too small.  I only had 3 days to work with, so I suggested to take out the zipper and create a lace-up back.  I also added a panel with boning behind the lace-up back for modesty purposes.  The bride liked her dress better with the lace-up back rather than how it looked previously.

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Here is another dress that the bride bought on sale, but it was too small (by about 7 inches), so again I took out the zipper and made it a lace up back.