{"id":209,"date":"2014-07-29T14:53:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T13:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joytomake.co.uk\/?p=209"},"modified":"2017-11-09T11:48:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T11:48:26","slug":"making-wedding-dreams-come-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joytomake.co.uk\/sewing-2\/making-wedding-dreams-come-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Making wedding dreams come true!"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to make 10 bridesmaid dresses, when you thought you were only making 3….<\/span><\/h2>\n

I was asked in January if I would help to make someone\u2019s wedding dream happen\u2026<\/p>\n

A couple of bridesmaid dresses\u2026well three\u2026.I was told.\u00a0 Ok so we went with mum and bride-to-be on a shopping trip to Nottingham to suss out colours, styles etc\u2026 oh and eat cake.\u00a0 Cake features very largely in this whole experience and was very welcome and very necessary and tasty of course.<\/p>\n

Right, so Nottingham, not being sure of what they were after and needing some colour inspiration etc, we went to John Lewis\u2026.I have always, always had a look if not bought stuff like patterns, trimmings, and cloth, what a let down, I was shocked to see that in the times of make do and mend, The Great British Sewing Bee, retro, refurb etc they had halved the department and there was very little to tempt us to stay.<\/p>\n

So we went to Nottingham Market next, and wow the colour was perfect, \u2018How many dresses?\u2019 we were asked, I said, \u2018Three\u2019 at the same time as bride-to-be said \u201810\u2019<\/span>, \u2026.ok, step back, slightly surprised, lets think about this a bit\u2026, how much fabric\u2026 there was no way I would allow her to buy that day, this needed careful planning to create a lovely vision for a dream day.\u00a0 We ate cake, mum took lots of pics and we went home.<\/p>\n

Lots of cake arrived the next day, chocolate mmmmmm\u2026\u00a0 it was needed.<\/p>\n

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So Version 1 of the designs was hatched.<\/span><\/h2>\n

We split up the 10 into similar age groups and sizes.\u00a0 This gave us four groups, 3 women, 2 teens, 3 pre-teens, 2 pre-school. \u00a0\u00a0I wanted Version 1 to be the real \u2018wish\u2019 list everything you could want or ask for.<\/p>\n

Bride to be had some ideas of what she wanted and had bought a beautiful Vogue pattern for a slinky floor length dress which would suit the older girls, who were all similar sizes 10-12, this was eventually adapted to create our own version.\u00a0 I had a pattern that would suit the teens and pre-teens, with a little magic to make it work, based on an A-line\u2026very 50\u2019s, full skirt, below the knee.\u00a0 The very young ones was a classic very full skirt with pussy cat bow at the back, it didn\u2019t end up twee, just gorgeous.\u00a0 I even painted a watercolour sketch to make sure we had the same \u2018vision\u2019, everyone was happy.<\/p>\n

I popped into my stockist just to get some swatches and picked up a lovely lace which I thought might work within the styles.<\/p>\n

So this being the wish list, each style grouping was added to and embellished.\u00a0 When I costed it out it was quite scary, knowing that they were on a limited budget having a do-it-yourself informal wedding.\u00a0 Back to the drawing board.. More cake.. Version 2 was born.<\/p>\n

With clever cutting and eliminating some of the OTT elements the costs came down a bit.\u00a0 Version 3 knocked it back again, using alternative but still lovely fabrics, finally two months or so later we got to Version 4, ate mountains of cake and fabric was ordered.<\/p>\n

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