Designing Your Own Wedding Dress

As you probably have begun to realize, planning a wedding is both exciting and often more than a little nerve-wracking. Preparing for a ceremony as specific as a wedding party is plenty of cause for excitement and anticipation. However, there's so much to do and, most likely, since you will need it to all go perfectly that's plenty of cause for anxiety and stressed nerves. Considering which it isn't the sort of thing we do on a regular basis, nor something that we normally have any training for, you have to ease up a little on the quest for perfection and attempt to focus on the excitement.



The wedding dress is likely to be the most significant component of the wedding ceremony. Everyone's eyes will be on the bride. Whatever kind of wedding you settle on, you'll find that there are many traditions that relate to the wedding ceremony - even with some of the more unusual themed weddings. Still, there is a room for you to add your own special touches - to make your wedding uniquely your own.


If you have never thought about actually designing your own wedding gown, you should give it some thought. If you've priced wedding gowns, you may be aware that even low-end brands may cost over 5 or 6 hundred dollars. Dresses sold by bridal shops tend to include a lot of overhead and additional costs that you can avoid by designing your own wedding dress. If you have a friend or relative who is well-skilled in sewing, you can save even more money. One of the best benefits of designing your own wedding gown is that you will end up with a true one of a kind, a wedding dress no one else owns.



One caution - before you begin designing be certain that you've or will find a person with the needed skills to actually create your bridal dress from your designs and ideas. This isn't something you can wait until the last minute to do. You'll need to spend some significant time working with this person - well in advance of the wedding - so make su re of both the person's skills and availability.



A great place to start generating ideas for your wedding dress design is to consider the theme of the wedding and when and where it will be held. Is it going to be a summer wedding? A winter wedding? Will it be outdoors or indoors? Will the reception be indoors or outdoors? 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 type of wedding dress you design. As an example, an outdoor wedding in Texas in the month of August requires a wedding dress design that will not leave you soaked in perspiration. You should also consider how formal or informal the wedding ceremony itself will be.



Unless you already have some ideas for a design, a good place to start may be with bridal magazines, bridal dress catalogs and even on-line bridal shops. All these can be good sources for tip s to use in designing your own bridal dress.

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