Where to Find the Perfect Dresses for your Wedding
Surprising Secrets from a Clothing Designer
Buying all the Wedding Dresses for your Bridal Party can be Expensive: Here’s Why
 Part of the cost of wedding dresses for the entire wedding party, including the bride, is because of the charges for taking measurements and fittings---and it can be money than you might have thought.
Think about it.
Wedding dresses fit everyone in the wedding party, including the flower girl, almost perfectly. They are made from the colors and types of materials that you, the bride, specifies. Wedding dresses may look similar or exactly like wedding dresses you’ve seen on the web or in bridal magazines.
What this boils down to is:
1. Material.
2. Embellishments.
3. Sizing and Fittings.
The actual cost includes the labor in creating the dresses which is often higher than the cost of material if you go through a bridal shop.
There is a way to dramatically cut the cost for wedding dresses.
Here is the secret from a clothing designer who not only has designed custom wedding dresses but clothing for recording artists.
Wedding Dresses are disguised in your Closet: How to find them and How to Work with them
The secret to finding perfect-fitting wedding dresses are based on clothes in your closet. Even a nominal seamstress can use this method because there is no guesswork.
This secret method to creating wedding dresses and bridal gowns however, may require the “giving up” of a favorite suit or dress unless the seamstress can stitch the pieces back together.
To make the perfect-fitting wedding dresses, have all members of the bridal party supply a seamstress with their favorite dresses. The trends have changed and weddings dresses for the bridal party no longer need to match in style. In fact, in some upper-crest circles, it’s considered “less-classy” and “cheap.”
You are going for a customized look for your wedding dresses that each member of your bridal party feels comfortable wearing and dresses that compliment their figures. Your wedding theme will determine the details that will tie them all in.
Once the dresses are turned over to the seamstress, she will take a seam ripper to take each one apart, iron each piece flat, and use the pieces to create templates made from butcher or shipping paper (the wide rolls of regular brown paper).
Once the paper templates have been created with all labelling such as notes and names are written on them, they are stored in separate plastic or paper bags.
The items are then sewn back together to give back to the bride’s attendants.
Creating and Embellishing the Wedding Dresses and Bridal Wedding Gowns the Easiest, Most Cost-Effective Way
Here are the secrets to creating the actual wedding dresses for your bridal party.
1. Choose the main fabric that will be used for all dresses as the “base” for the dresses.
2. Apply decorative trim to all dresses and the placement of the trim and embellishments can vary. For example, the maid of honor may have iridescent sequins on her dress, the bridesmaids have pearl beads on theirs, and the flower girl has tiny fabric bows on hers.
3. Trim can come from a variety of sources:
a. Cloth ribbon and/or lace from fabric shops.
b. Beads and rhinestones from craft stores.
c. All embellishments can be obtained from second-hand and thrift stores. This is another part to this secret and most cost-effective of all: find formal dresses in the wedding theme’s colors and tear THEM down for their fabric to make bows and sashes, and use their rhinestones and beadwork to embellish the new wedding dresses for your bridal party.
Any remaining fabric used from formal dresses from thrift shops and from the main “wedding dresses” fabric can be used to create the ring pillow, purse for the bride, and other accessories or decorations.
Additional Resources for creating your own Wedding Dresses:
Making and Applying Appliqués
Rhinestones and other Glitzy Trims
How to Make a Ring Bearer’s Pillow
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