All posts tagged: weddings

And the winner is (belatedly)

OK, so this post is very late because I went travelling and an unusually hideous fall storm went travelling with me, and everywhere I went it wiped out the power and washed out roads and blew down tree branches and generally made life uncomfortable and the internet non-existent. So, belatedly, the winner of the ‘Design a Dress for Kate‘ contest is…. (drumroll here). Entry A aka Mrs C ! Yep. You all cast your votes, and her ’50s inspired princess frock was a clear winner. Interestingly, Mrs C also wins the wooden spoon prize, as her dress is also the one closest to what Kate wore. I guess all those rumors about Kate being inspired by Queen Elizabeth’s 1950s wedding dress were true! Pity that Kate didn’t wear Mrs’ C’s exact dress though! I thought her dress, while lovely, missed that certain something to make it really special, and the extra details on Mrs’ C’s design would have taken it there (now runs and ducks for cover to hide from all the people who …

Family wedding photos

Published by The Dreamstress

Here are some random family wedding photos from Mr D’s maternal side. Sadly, we don’t even know exactly who some of the brides and grooms are, or when the wedding was. This is probably the oldest. They are a rather sad looking group aren’t they? And we aren’t even sure it is a wedding photo – only the small bouquet carried by the seated woman and the posy in the standing woman’s belt hint at that. The photo does reveal one dirty little family secret though. See those trees in the background. Yep. Eucalyptus. Some of Mr D’s ancestors came from Australia. *wink* This photo is much more ‘bridal’, but the bride looks just as unhappy! Poor thing! Don’t you just love her huge sleeves though? And the little boy lying awkwardly at the front of the group? I think that the man in the light suit is the same man as in the first photo (those ears rather give it away!) and the boy sitting in front of him may be the same boy …

Polly’s wedding dress

Published by The Dreamstress

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, …