Going to the chapel
Ok, so getting engaged has officially turned me into a crazy, crazy girl. I spend most of my days looking at almost-perfect dresses, thinking if only it had this or that. I'm disgusting. I'm realizing that maybe I should just get some free weights and start working on my arms, so I can just go strapless and stop fretting about how ugly they make sleeves on wedding gowns. Seriously...TWO choices, people. You can either have the t-shirt like sleeves (totally unflattering on yours truly and might be weather inappropriate for our wedding as well) or loooooooooooooooooong sheer, poet-like, Rivendell-ish, Mirkwood-like, Lothlorien style butterfly arms. Alright and when being honest in my nerdy heart of hearts...I'm a little tempted...but, I don't think "fat, medieval elf" is the look I'm going for. Would it kill someone to make a slightly bell shaped sheer sleeve?? WOULD IT???
Here is my dream dress!! Here's the problem...this dress is made by a designer in Scotland who will only make the dress for you, if you can come in for sittings. Sigh. I seriously covet this thing, but it's unattainable. The only thing I can think of is to find a very simple, a-line strapless dress and hope that I can find a seamstress/seamster (a little too close to teamster if you ask me) to make me something like that sheer top (sans the fucking awesome flower sadly). If anyone knows a great person of sewing who could make such an item...I'm all ears.
Do you see how pathetic I've become??
3 comments:
Okay, don't laugh. JCrew now makes a limited selection of wedding dresses, but if you're finding a tailor near you, perhaps they could make a sheer overlay to go over the strapless one...
http://www.jcrew.com/catalog/category.jhtml?id=cat66617&navAction=jump
(And, even though you didn't ask my advise, the one most important thing about a wedding dress, way more important than the designer or the price, is that it fits perfectly. Therefore, if you find something off the rack, you should still find a good tailor.)
Ruth
Congrats on the engagement!!! I really think you could find a silk painting artist to paint a rose on a sheer overlay! It might cost a little bit, but it would be much cheeper than 3 round trip tickets to Scotland! :) Plus, it's your wedding...do what you want!
Caryn
www.fuzzynoodleknits.com
My sister is a seamstress in her spare time and I'm sure she'd have no trouble making something like that for you. She's amazing! You'd probably only have to drive to Logan a time or two... much cheaper than flying to scotland 3 or 4 times. But yeah... And it is possible to find the perfect dress and sleeves like you describe. And they don't look wonky. As witnessed by my wedding pictures... which I was gonna link, but alas, the website is down. Let me know if you wanna see pics and I'll bring one from home and scan it.
M
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