Design A Wedding Dress Starting With The Picture Method

You are ready to “design a dress for your own wedding! Perhaps you want to design a wedding dress that is unique. Do you find you like a combination of two or more dresses?

“But how am I going to let the dressmaker know what I want because . . . I can’t draw very well?” . . . If this is your problem . . . then you are at the right place to get help.

This first method involves very little drawing. Because you use bridal gown pictures that are arranged into what I call the “picture collage method.

1. Find a wedding gown picture with the basic silhouette you like such as: a-line, princess line, ball gown, empire waist and sheath silhouettes for your wedding dress. This is the most prominent part of any dress.

2. Pull bridal gown pictures that have the design details you like. You might like the bodice neckline of one dress and the back of another. May be you see sleeves or details like a sash, beading lace. Maybe you like the train off of another dress.

3. If you have small changes to a gown you won’t need to do a collage. If your have several changes---cut out the design detail parts that you want from the other wedding dress pictures and arrange them on paper by taping or gluing them down. Now label them with notes if additional information is needed.

4. You can draw in free hand some simple changes---like necklines or delete straps.

5. Some brides will cut out pictures of bridal gown designs and layer them over each other. For example: You can cut out the bodice---upper torso to waist---section of dress. Then from the waist down cut out the skirt of the gown. Put the bodice and the skirt over top of each other, to create one dress.

Now you can contact a wedding dress maker. Talk to her about your ideas. Email or take your pictures to her of the bridal gown design that you put together.

Taking the time to put your design together rather than giving the dressmaker a bunch of pictures will help her to interpret your design reducing the opportunity for mistakes.

Using pictures of wedding gowns when designing a bridal dress is a good method to use when re-styling only “one or two areas.” Most “new or used” bridal dresses can be restyled. You can add or change something about “any” bridal gown design.

If you have “many different details” you like off of different dresses. For example . . . you like the neckline of one dress, the bodice front of another, the back of another, the sleeve off another, the train and/or skirt off another wedding dress.

How can you design a wedding dress by drawing all these details in to “one perfect wedding dress?” The next method is the one for you!

The method about to be described will benefit you if you need to take your design to a wedding dress maker to have a “unique custom made wedding gown” created.

The next technique is the tracing method which you can use to design a wedding dress.

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