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Sunday 18 April 2010

Tagged for my wedding dress


The headless bride ;-)

Well as I am Mystery Mum, I couldn't make it too easy to guess my identity now could I? ;-)

I have been tagged to tell my wedding tale so all my pics have been cropped accordingly.

I do have a head and in fact below is a picture of my hair on my wedding day which I loved. I had the flowers made out of the same fabric as my wedding dress.. yes I've given it away now.. I wore red!






Did I do the can-can?
My wedding day was one of the happiest days I have ever experienced, I had such fun and so did everyone who came along. At the time when DH and I got engaged I was obsessed with Moulin Rouge - so when the opportunity arose of a wedding to plan - the theme was... you guessed it - Moulin Rouge.
It was such fun, I had sparkle and glitter and it was all over the top which I loved... DH wore a red waistcoat and a red chilli buttonhole (he loves spicy food).

Noone else was allowed to wear red, so there were a lot of white outfits on the hot summer's day that was our wedding day..

Getting it made
I spent ages looking at lots of different dresses but at the time (it was about 7 years ago) there weren't as many red options available - now there are quite a few. So I had to get my dress made. I found this amazing and madly eccentric dressmaker who specialised in copying celebrity dresses and had the most amazing eye for detail. Mine wasn't a celebrity dress but it ended up being a mish mash of several styles and he coped amazing well and with very few hissy fits.

Getting back into the dress
I'd always heard brides say how easy it was to lose weight before they got married - "It just fell off" was a common phrase - well I wasn't expecting that to happen but amazingly I kept losing weight which was great in some ways but now means I can only get half a thigh into my skirt and will probably never be able to do the zip up on the back of the corset - unless I start starving myself now ;-)

So this is a very brief story of my wedding dress - it sits in a protective bag and one day I will get back into it - but may have to wait post hopeful baby number two methinks ;-)

1 comment:

  1. Gorgeous dress. I wanted a red dress or a black one, but none looked right. Your's is beautiful. Excellent post x

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