Short Wedding Dress in Thai silk, Chantilly lace and Block colours

Lucy's engagement was a very happy announcement. We had already worked with Lucy for her sister's 
wedding a couple of years ago, so we were pleased to be called on again. The wedding was to be 
held in the Duddingston Kirk and the reception The Hub, Royal Mile.
Lucy had decided for a short dress before she even contacted us. She had it made in Pure Silk 
Deluxe Douppion fabric, and she had ruching on the waist, deep pleats on the very full ballerina 
length skirt. She had the corset build in, which tied up below the fastening of covered buttons 
and loops. There was a cute lace trim on the hem. The dress was strapless and lucy went for a 
Chantilly lace bolero with long sleeves for the day time, she then had a copy of this lace bolero 
for the evening but without the sleeves to make it easy for her to dance.
 Lucy Chose a great head dress from Rene Walrus.
We also made the four bridesmaids dresses, they had high neck on the front and a deep V-neck at 
the back, deep pleats on the skirts to match Lucy's dress. We made 2 dresses in fuchsia pink and 
two in purple. Two of the dresses was made only the week before the wedding, as the two 
bridesmaids had recently given birth to the two most gorgeous babies, which gave them time to get 
back into shape.
We feel it all came together with Lucy's mothers outfit. She had a short silk jacket and a 
matching lace dress in a royal blue colour.
The block colours of the dresses gives it a very current feel and it is indeed very happy colours.
Lucy kept herself and her bridesmaids very busy before the wedding with lots and lots of fun and 
very pretty DIY decorations for her wedding. Lucy's flowers were from Bloemen Ecke and the lovely photographs are taken by Paul Saunders Photography.

Bridesmaid's dresses with different necklines

Laura and Stephen had a beautiful September wedding in Dundas Castle. We knew we were in for a treat as we had a lot of our favorite wedding people involved, Planet Flowers, 21CC Fireworks, First Light Weddings Cup Couture.
Laura had 4 bridesmaids, and all different shapes sizes and colouring  Laura decided for a lovely very sophisticated coffee colour. All the dresses had the same skirt shape and then different necklines to suit all their shapes.
Laura chose a fine crystal embellishment to decorate the empire line.
We could not believe the photographs when we saw them, such a lovely day, and so much attention to detail, Laura and the girls looked amazing, Hair and make up was by Made-up. The dessert table was out of this world and made by cup couture and planet flowers looked good enough to eat.
Congratulations Laura and Stephen, it was fun working with you and your bridesmaids.

Laura & Greig's Wedding in the Glasshouse Hotel, Edinburgh

When Laura was planning her wedding she had ideas of quite a contemporary wedding. She had booked the The Glasshouse Hotel Edinburgh for the ceremony and reception and it's a lovely modern Wedding Venue just at the foot of Carlton Hill.

Laura went for a long length bodice, with a lace overlay, it had a boned bodice with internal lace up and lots of structure and boning. She had the lace overlay coming up over the bodice and sitting directly on her skin on a halter neck neckline. The skirt was many layers of tulle in different weights and levels of stiffness. The top layer netting was a very fine veil. netting. Laura had working silk covered buttons and loops down the back.

Laura decided on a short veil with a fine edging.

Laura had put a lot of thought into her wedding details, she had flowers from Lilypad Flowers and a friend of the shop Barbara Taylor who is a freelance make-up artist working from Space NK  did her make up for her and all her bridesmaids. Cheynes Hairdressing did hair for all bridesmaids and for Laura.  And Liggy's Cakes made the cake for the wedding.

I really like the finished product, and it was lovely to work with Laura as she took interest in choosing few but sophisticated and lovely details which completed her stylish wedding.

The wedding was beautifully captured by Edinburgh Wedding Photographer Photo by Moon Photography, who so kindly let us use her photographs for the blog post!

Drumtochty Castle and Vintage Bridesmaids Dresses

 Keri-Ann had a whole folder with images of Vintage details she would like to include in her wedding preparations. It was much fun as it was apparent that both Keri-Ann and her 2 bridesmaids had given a lot of thought to what they wanted to wear on the day, and the whole theme of the wedding was to be enhanced with the bridesmaids dresses.
I really really like the final result. the bridesmaids dresses were made in a duchesse satin overlayed with a chiffon changeant, the dresses had a pearl detail on the waist. The girls had silk douppion bolero jackets with a small stand up shawl collar, to go with the dresses.
The wedding couldn't have been in a  more stunning setting at Drumtochty Castle, and Blue Sky Photography took the lovely photographs.

Susi & Paul's Wedding at The Hub, Edinburgh

Susi came to see us last year, she had decided to have her dress made for different reasons, one being she is around 5 foot tall and she had tried a lot of dresses on which absolutely drowned her and she couldn't get a feel for how the real dress would be when it had a whole foot cut off.  But she also wanted a dress which was truly hers and that she had been much more part of the process of making it.


Susi tells me she now feels her dress has its own story with all the conversations and decisions we made along the route to her perfect dress.


Susi had princess style dress, it had motifs with beading on attached close together on the bodice and then less and less down her skirt. She had an internal corset, and buttons and loops at the back. The dress had many layers of netting in different weights. The top layer of the dress was made in the finest netting the same netting as is used for veils.

It was a very fun wedding to be part of, not only was it in The Hub, Edinburgh, which we love, Susi had hair and make up from our friends Rosie Fraser Make-up and Charlene Princess Cut Bridal Hair.


After her wedding i was told how special it was to walk up the royal mile in her wedding dress with her dad and her sister and niece and all the tourists were cheering on them and wishing her good luck.


We were fortunate enough that Susi agreed to be one of our models after her wedding, and she truly rocked the catwalk at the wedding show in Edinburgh Botanics Fashion Show


Her Photographs were taken by Ewan from Tete a Tete Photography.