design my wedding dress!

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I'm new here and have never written on one of these boards before, so please forgive me if I can't figure out how to post pictures.

I took a plain wedding dress that was found at a thrift store and decorated it with "fake" embroidery and beading. It took me a full week to do working everyday for many many hours - usually 8 - 20 hours a day. Insane, I know. We needed this costume for a micro-budget indy film I'm working on - which I somehow ended up as costumer on (even though I have no clue what I'm doing!)

The "fake" embroidery & beadwork is primarily hot glue (gold, white sparkle, and clear), thin cording loops or spirals and glued down, and various beads & jewels (some strung, some not).

The bolero top was also found at a thrift store or yard sale. I painted the gold onto it and since we needed it to have a little bit of a shine as if it were made of a finer fabric, I again used some hot glue (with glitter) and lightly went over some parts of it - so it would catch the light differently as the actress moved.

Now let's see if I can figure out how to post some pictures...

... okay, clearly I failed. I'll keep trying.

Okay, I think I figured this out. Sorry for the poor photo quality of some of the pictures. We just didn't have good lighting and I needed to make sure I got the dress done, so I didn't get much of a chance to get good photographs.



I just added three rows of beads to the top.


Some details on the skirt - and some pencil sketching of what I want the rest of the pattern to look like.


Just starting the back of the dress.


A good portion of the dress finished.


Back of the dress on the actress.


Back of the dress with train.


Front of the dress (sort of).

That is beautiful!!! I love it!!

Wow, that's so beautiful!

My friend's mum did some "fake embroidery" on her prom dress. She made the dress herself, and then to add some detail she cut some flowers from an old net curtain and appliqued them down one side of the dress. It was so pretty, you would never have been able to tell what it used to be.

wowzwers i am in love!

That is gorgeous! Love it! I too im in the process of making my own wedding dress, but first I have to do a prom dress for my daughter. Hmmm, so looking forward to the fun that will be.