After spending some time to read about
the organization of a such event, and trying to find the perfect place, I finally needed to move toward the most important part of
the whole wedding - The Dress! I attempted to this project as I usually do -
identify the problem, check for solutions, choose one solution and at least one
back up variant, and go for the solution with full speed. So far so good!
When I first announced the idea my mother
was about to faint. Seriously, Mom?! I've been sewing for most of my life, both
as a hobby and profession and she'd pretty familiar with that. I guess her
reaction was just common for all mothers:) Anyway, I have to admit that even I
was thinking at first that I might get a beautiful ready-made dress. This continued for about a week. During that week I saw as
many bridal websites as I could and watched as many Say Yes to the Dress episodes as I could. By the end of
this week I was sure I am going to sew my dress. Nothing else out there was
suitable - either in color, fabric, or price. Do I really need to spend more
than a month's salary for a one-evening dress? Especially when I hate the
material or it is totally-not-me when I put the dress on. I think no. Thus, it was the second
decision with which I was pretty certain and didn't think twice about it. Still, most of my friends were
surprised to hear it. Yes, I don't have many sewing friends around here. Sewing
is so-out-of-date that it is becoming modern again:) The new black, you know.
And I love that. I see many hand-made dresses coming up in the future.
Then I ran a quick search on internet to
see who did the same thing and sewed her own dress. I was pleasantly surprised
by a few blogs. I
was lucky to have found Melanie and her wonderful blog http://poppykettle.com/. She has
written a very useful post about whether to sew or not her own wedding dress. She points out some
other places for inspiration. I have checked them all and found a very common
trait. Then I rechecked the posts and the about pages of the bloggers and guess
what - most of the blogs I really liked were written by engineers! They (myself
included) seem to do one and the
same thing - identify the problem, look for solutions, choose a solution and go
for it! I admit that I enjoy this process now, but it took me several
years to start doing it.
Then the process
of finding a pattern started. In relation to this, I found Veanna's blog SoSewLovely very useful. I love
the both dresses she made - one for the wedding and one for the reception. Also, she explained her sewing process very
well and gave lots of
sewing tips. If you are in place where you start considering that making your
own dress might be not that hard, you will like the tips she offers.
Now on the patterns. Until a couple of
years ago, I had been a faithful fan to Burda magazine for
years. Recently, I realised that I'd been buying the magazine (mostly) every
single month since 1993. Then, several years back I found a Spanish magazine, Patrones, which I absolutely loved! Burda had
became too boring and started repeated their patterns over and over again while
Patrones offered great new ideas. Too bad I cannot find an e-version of it to share.
Also, after years of sewing, I was surprised to see that the Spanish fit was
more suitable for my body type than the German one. Thus, I became a faithful
fan of Patrones. However, at this very moment, I have piles of magazines and nothing that I
really like so I could make my own wedding
dress. I started my online search. Fortunately, Vogue Patterns have
great patterns and ideas. I chose several, vintage and modern fit, designs.
Still, I was not completely satisfied and could not find the real-me-dress.
However, the patterns gave me a good starting point and are a great tool to
use.
Then it took a
couple of days to decide but finally I knew what I’d like to get – I will make
a compilation between the upper two patterns and will make the orange one too. Aren't they lovely?!
Now off to do some mock-ups.
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