Year: 2011

Polly’s wedding dress

Among all my other projects, I’ve been working on Polly’s wedding dress, but I couldn’t blog about it because it needed to be a secret until her wedding. Now that Polly’s all happily married to Mr Polly, and had the loveliest wedding (with swing dancing!) I can show you her gorgeous dress. Yay! Polly’s dress was such a fun commission to work on. I love non-traditional brides, and Polly had such a charming, individual, perfectly her vision for her entire wedding. Polly is a seamstress in her own right, and loves vintage textiles. The invitations included pattern pieces (cute!), and she made her bouquet and the bridesmaids bouquets out of tea dyed silk flowers, vintage buttons, and old doilies and pieces of antique lace, including some from her mothers wedding dress. Awwwww…. Lucky for Polly, one of her best friends and bridesmaids was noted Wellington hat designer Amy Jansen-Leen, and Amy did Polly’s hair and headpiece, and collaborated with Polly and I on the dress design. Polly picked the most gorgeous fabrics for her dress, …

Rate Kate’s dress

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Last week’s wedding dress divided you into three groups. Those of you who were madly in love, those of you who thought it was just a little blah, and finally, those of you who thought it looked like an ice skating costume. Luckily for the dress, the majority of you were in group 1, and it rated a 7.5 out of 10. This week, instead of the usual ‘rate the dress’ let’s look at the entries for the ‘design a dress for Kate‘ contest. She may not wear what we decide, but hopefully she won’t wear an ice skating costume! Below are the three entries (click on the images for a larger view). Entry A: Entry B: Entry C: Now that you have seen all the gorgeousness on offer, you can vote on your favourites. But wait! This is a vote with a difference. I asked Mr Dreamy to contribute to the blog and he suggested that for a fairer voting system we use a single transferable vote system (Mr D knows the names of …

Put a crown on it

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When I got married I wasn’t at all interested in tiaras. Mostly this is because most of the ones available at the time looked too much like pageant tiaras. I’m not really a pageant girl. Now, if I’d been able wear a good replica of one of these historic tiaras, I would have been all over the idea! This one may be my favourite. Oooh! It’s so sweet and delicate and floral! And we all know my weakness for laurel leaves, so of course I love this one. It’s just so simple. This one may be even better. It has laurel leaves, neoclassical influence, and a cameo. I’m in love! The cameo is a little manly though. I’d prefer a more feminine picture, like this one. In addition to the pretty image, I love the turquoise and pearls, and the slight asymmetry of the central motif. Plus that wirework is so delicate! The silver filigree work on this one is just gorgeous, and of course, many of the Scandanavian countries still have a strong tradition …