Choosing Your Flowers

The influence of the wedding gown design on the use of flowers at the wedding is of paramount importance.

A modern wedding gown looks wonderful with tropical, oriental floral designs. The dress can be enhanced by simple, elegant flowers and angled foliage leaves. Minimalist chic always wins with this look, be it a simple bias cut column dress or a structured tube shape.

The romance of a full country style wedding with the soft lines of the bridal gown cry out for soft, natural flowers that are almost unstructured in design. Imagine walking through a garden and hand picking what you see, and then holding them in a hand tied formation - elegant and simple.

This look takes a florist years of training and knowledge to get it just right, but I am sure your florist will have all the skill to create the look.

Roses held in a hand tied posy always look fantastic – the simplest bouquet using one flowers and foliage is a real winner for most gowns – less is often more.

The scent of a bouquet is also important. The smell will conjure up memories for years to come. After you have used the bouquet, there are companies who will preserve it for you with special preservation techniques and dried flower arrangements under glass.

Whichever option you choose will ensure that your bouquet becomes a great visual memory.

Putting Your Dreams Into Reality

Choosing your wedding gown will be one of the most important clothing decisions you’ll ever have to make.

When considering their dream bridal gown, most people become overwhelmed with the importance of the most memorable garment in their life. This awesome decision seems to cloud the normal train of thought.

When they enter a bridal shop they are faced by a wall of white and ivory, beading and embroidery. They cannot find their perfect gown on the rail , and preconceived ideas gained from trailing through endless glossy bridal magazines who show 6 foot tall models with a perfect bodies.

These images may well be airbrushed so are a million miles away from actual reality.

The wedding dress design dictates the choice of style, colour and details of everything else at the wedding including the bridesmaid’s dresses, flower designs and invitations.

You have to think carefully about what your wedding dress would look like as well as taking into account the immovable factors such as the date of the wedding, location, church, civil ceremony or tropical beach. All these factors are great influences.

A modern hotel may inspire clean, sleek lines in the design, with reflective beadwork mirroring the minimal interior or gardens outside. In contrast, a historic manor house or castle would have a totally different treatment in design. The grandeur of such buildings will overwhelm some gowns, so the key is detail and proportion.

To help focus the mind, it may be helpful to start a ‘look book’ – a scrapbook that contains all the ideas and inspirations that spring to mind. This could be photographs, swatches/scraps of fabric, colour swatches, beads, embroidery – anything in fact that appeals to you. Keep it with you and every time you see something make a note of it in the look book. You can then use these things to direct your thoughts as to what would suit your shape and the style you would like to have.

From these useful means I can design the dress of your dreams.

This understanding of the body, line and style, coupled with the location of your wedding will help us to arrive at the perfect wedding gown for you.

What Colour Should I Go For ?

So many ladies that are to marry have a great worry about what colour their wedding gown should be.

The normal train of thought for a bride is for a white wedding dress, but this does not always flatter a lot of people’s skin types. White looks wonderful on a dark-skinned woman who’s features are lifted with the white fabric.

Whereas, a paler more English Rose complexion definitely needs the soft, natural tone of an ivory colour wedding gown as this enhances the face and warms the skin giving more of a radiant glow.

Many colours can be worn for your wedding day – there are no rules. Red is often worn in Indian weddings where the opulence of gold embroidery sets the skin off beautifully.

Golds are much softer tones and can make any bride feel glamourous. Silver and blue tones are wonderful for blondes, or pale skinned ladies looking for an alternative colour.

The dramatic colours in tartans and bold prints can look fantastic in the right wedding setting.

Colour as a detail on the bridal gown lifted from a bridesmaids dress makes a complete co-ordinated look and matching ties or cravats for the gentlemen add to the beautifully presented picture. The bridesmaids colours are so important, dictating the flowers and table settings at the wedding venue.

The Mother of the bride is also influenced by this colour theme – so that no clashes occur – and assuring a certain harmony for the wedding photographs.

Tips For Your Dress Fitting

When having a fitting for your Wedding dress, it is very important to have the correct underwear right from the beginning. This helps to ensure the wedding dress is fitted correctly to you. A separate bra and pants will often give a better shape and foundation than an all-in-one bodysuit. We stock specially made bustiers in all sizes, but also have several links on the site to specialist lingerie shops.

Your shoes will also be needed for your dress fittings so that the length can be adjusted correctly, and it is a good idea to wear the shoes before your Wedding day to get used to them, and to rub the bottom of the soles with sandpaper to prevent you slipping on the day. A spare pair of tights is also useful to have on stand-by.

When choosing headwear. It is best to have a separate headdress and veil so that the veil can be removed leaving the headdress in place.

It is also very important to have hair and make-up trials before your Wedding date. If you can arrange this to be on the same day as your Wedding dress fitting, then it will enable you to see how everything looks together.