Posted by Eunice Moyle, whose wedding is featured in the Spring 2010 issue!
Ah, the wedding dress. I came up with the original design of my dress and handed the sketches off to Iain Bartlett, trusting him implicitly to turn my rough pencil sketches into the fabulous concoction that he came up with. We agreed that it should look like some gorgeous thing that had just been found in a trunk in grandma's attic -- vintage in its inspiration, with a little tatter and some slightly deconstructed elements. He hand-stitched all those ruffles on (literally hundreds), and made this beautiful petticoat from raw silk and this amazing fabric made of bits of netting -- it looked like the under skirt was trimmed in feathers.
Iain, a former dressmaker who used to run his own label, Harris-Bartlett, and who now runs Hello!Lucky's London office, made the wedding dress. We were SO excited when he flew out to San Francisco from London for a fitting a month before the wedding -- it was actually the first time I had seen the dress, and, as you can see from the excited chipmunk face it elicited, I just about fell down dead with joy when I saw it. It turned out EXACTLY as I'd imagined!
The ruffles on my wedding dress weighed a ton, so I also bought this vintage dress from Vintageous so I could swan around the dance floor without falling on my face!
I had a "bridal tent" set up off to the side, where I changed into the gown. Here I am making my debut.
Erin, one of my bridesmaids, bravely tackled the last detail of the dress -- sewing on the buttons -- in the middle of the field as we were setting up the day before the wedding.
I wanted to be able to dance the night away in total comfort (being six feet tall, I've never really developed a tolerance for heels), so I looked around for ballerina shoes with a little sparkle and an Audrey Hepburn-esque style. I picked up a pair of pale gold Steve Madden flats and found a set of vintage blue rhinestone shoe clips at the Alameda flea market (an amazing resource, where I found most of the wedding's details) and voila! a fabulous pair of dancing shoes! There's a how-to featured here, if you're interested in a full step-by-step process.
1 Some of the clip options under consideration.
2 A few more options.
3 A trial with the pink clips from the flea market.
4 Adding the winning blue clips on to the shoes.
5 Voila!
*To see the whole wedding, visit this gallery.*
From: kpoe | 3/9/10 at 1:50 pm
question: I see some corsetry in that picture where you're trying your dress on... where did you get yours/what do you recommend? I'm on the hunt for one!
From: kpoe | 3/9/10 at 1:50 pm
ps - everything looks divine!!