Wedding: My Custom Gown

Upstairs above my wardrobe is a box with my perserved 

wedding gown, veil and gloves from my wedding day in 2003.  

As August slowly approaches in the horizon I get more curious about opening that box.  

I feel like a little girl awaiting Christmas and knowing what she hopes to open that morning.  

I really want wear the gown again for our vow renewal ceremony. 

I have an idea of updating it.

But more on that later.

I originally had another gown for my wedding. 

One that I had picked out with a couple of my bridesmaids.

We had traveled to a bridal shop that boasted

‘the largest bridal gown selection in the Mid-South’.

It was my first time to try on gowns and I fell in love with one.

It was pretty and I felt so pretty in it.

However weeks later I was looking through a bridal magazine 

and fell in love with a Amsale couture.

Unfortunately it cost as much as my wedding.

My dad asked me if I wanted the wedding or the gown.

I really wanted the gown.

It was perfect.

Love at first sight.

(because you can experience that with a gown)

So I found a seamstress in town and brought pictures of the gown.

I picked out the fabric I wanted and she took my measurements.

The dress that originally was priced at $2700 

I had made for my body for only $600

Best decision ever.

The other dress is still in my closet in a garment bag.

I’ll be honest I take it out and try it on every so often.

I like to pretend I’m a princess.

Nothing much has changed from 

when I was a little girl growing up in England 

with a photos of Prince William on my dressing table.

My mum found my tiara for me, a replica of Princess Diana’s. 

When the original shoes I wanted for my dress were out of stock

I went for the extreme opposite with lots of bling. 

I had long fingerless gloves and two different veils.  

Long one for the ceremony and a shorter for the reception.

The jewelry my mum gave to me as a gift.

I changed into a custom tailored white suit for my ‘going away’ outfit

as my new husband and I  drove off into the sunset.