Recent Wedding Gown Alterations

It has been a very busy fall!  I am just getting to show off some of the beautiful gowns I have been altering!  Here are a few of my favorites:This is the JCrew Rosabelle gown.  I love the buttons up the back and the sweet flowers on the shoulders.  The bride wanted a...

Custom Garters!

I have made a couple cute garters this wedding season that I thought I would share!  This first one I made using lace from the bride’s mother’s dress!  So sweet!For this one I reused fabric cut from the hem of one of the bridesmaid’s dresses, I love...

Custom Wedding Gown (with beadwork from India!)

Melinda brought in a lovely skirt and top from India that she wanted to wear at her wedding, however the pieces didn’t fit very well and the fabric was very delicate.  We decided to create a custom gown using the beadwork from the originals.  I appliqued the...

Eco-friendly Custom Wedding Dress

Last winter Sasha commissioned me for an unusual project.  She wanted to create her wedding dress using the fabric from some vintage lace curtains that hung in her mother’s childhood bedroom!  She also wanted to use natural fibers in the other parts of the...

Why buy custom clothing?

So lately I have been following the fabulously interesting Elizabeth Cline after the release of her new book Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion. I love her philosophy (all backed by facts) of buying fewer, better made garments. Let me share a few...

New custom dress design!

I am really excited to make this custom dress! It will be so elegant and whimsical. You may recognize the inspiration from several Rivini designs, but I am making this from scratch! Drawn by Meki Couture

Short and Sweet: A casual wedding dress

I just finished this cute little custom  wedding dress! The bride wanted a short strapless dress made from cotton sateen that she can wear again in the future.  Oh and she wanted pockets, that was a priority! I started with a Cynthia Steffe Design for Vogue...

The modest bride

Last fall I had a lovely bride, Rebecca, ask me to add sleeves to her strapless dress.  There are so many strapless dresses on the market but this style doesn’t suit everyone!  Adding sleeves or straps is a nice way to customize a strapless dress.  Then you can...

Flower girl

Ok, so this dress wasn’t for a wedding, but it could have been!  Jamelle Kelly of Cameron + Kelly Studios commissioned me to make a dress for her little girl.  She picked the cutest fabric!  I based the design of the dress on The Party Dress by The Cottage...

Custom Dresses!

The year is starting out great and I am working on several really fun custom dresses!  Below are the drawings for two different dresses I will be designing and making over the next few months!Here is the front for the first dress.  Originally the bride wanted a...