Rachel Lamb Bridal Design

Continuing with a real wedding, here is Shelby in her stunning bespoke lace fishtail wedding gown, getting married in Italy. The wedding dress features hand appliquéd lace throughout (it took many, many days to sew the lace on in the summer heat last year - phew!) The dress also has an 'eyelash' lace trim around the neckline and shoulder detail, and a ribbon trim with beaded motif at the waist. It fits her like a glove and she looks gorgeous! :-) (Please forgive blurry picture.)

Back in the early Autumn last year I had the pleasure of working with Matilda on her beautifully simple and elegant wedding dress. Matilda was inspired by her mother's wedding dress which she brought along to our first appointment together. The dress was very simple with seaming being the main detail. After a discussion, we decided to make a modern version of her mother's dress for Matilda. It's a beautiful A-line shaped, boned dress, with buttons all the way down the back to the bottom of the train. The main body  of the dress is made from ivory silk Dupion and the neckline and sleeves are a softer ivory silk crepe Georgette. Doesn't she look perfect?

I want you to know that I have a lot of fun with my brides during the whole design and manufacturing process, and this bride and her dress were no exception! This is Charlotte who only just married a few weeks back. (Congratulations to you both!) Charlotte first contacted me last summer with some very definite ideas about not wanting to wear ivory, and not wanting to look, in her words, 'typically bridal'. After lengthy discussion of her ideas, some sketching and looking at various fabrics and images, I advised her to make a trip to some fabric stores in Berwick Street , London, to source the type of beaded fabric she liked. (FYI, I sometimes do advise people to go on a shopping trip for samples if I don't have the type of fabrics they like to hand, but in most cases I supply the fabrics.) So Charlotte set off to look and came back with a beaded type of lace and chiffon combination that when applied to her design, resulted in a price that would rival most Ho...