i previously blogged about my gown shopping for the civil beach wedding .... this is the sequel for that blog, lol...... just a story of how i decided that it's my "this is it" gown.....
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| at coronet bridal store |
it's my friends who thought that gown really looks good on me.... didn't particularly liked it the first time because it's not as flowy as my other candidates and it just looks too simple for my taste...i want it simple, but with some wow factor...
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| trying it on for the last time |
then i went home and watched all the videos we took that night at the bridal shop to see how all my finalist gowns look on me and that's how i saw what my friends saw.... the gown does looks stunning.... it hugs my body on all the right places and my waist looks smaller! and i looked good on it on all angles unlike my other finalists that i have to be careful which side i need to aim for the camera so i won't look like a sack of potato or worst, pregnant.....
after that i made an appointment to the bridal store and went back by myself and bought it....
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| cheap find |
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| at coronet with the lady waiting on me |
here's what the actual dress looks like, once upon a time when it's still posted on maggie sotterro website..... its now being copied and posted to several sites who does imitation gowns....
i just had the store remove the heavy train because its not appropriate for a beach wedding but i kept the outer chiffon layer so i'll still have a train.......then i added a one-shoulder strap because i really want a one shoulder style and then just bought a brooch to go with it.......i got the idea of the one-shoulder and brooch from an allure gown..... i was planning to make it look like the allure gown but the off-shoulder just looked better......
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| the allure gown with one-shoulder |
i also added a sort of a cape-like thingie as additional accent..... i got that idea from one of pronovias bridesmaid gowns....... i thought that would look cool flying with the wind, which didnt really happen because it got all twisted out and didn't "fly", but anyway, i just had to remove those additionals during reception so it would just be the original gown design....just a strapless sweetheart neckline chiffon dress....
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| pronovias gown (lerma) with a cape accent |
below are pictures of the final design of the gown..... i decided to do an off-shoulder one-shoulder, if that makes sense, lol......
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extra post:
the bridesmaids dresses are from bill levkoff.... originally i was just planning to make all the bridesmaids to buy whatever chiffon-like cheap long black dress they could find but my MOH suggested it would look
better in the picture if bridesmaids gown all look the same so i gave in and this is the gown....
bridesmaids:
i want it black because (1) i want them to still be able use them after the wedding, (2) because black is slimming and (3) because i want to just give them a blue sash and parasol...... below is how my bridesmaids looked like....i get compliments on how nice the black and blue went well together....
groomsmen:
i really wanted the groomsmen to wear a black shirt so that the only color you'll see is black and blue but hubby said we shouldn't bother them with that, because atleast we're sure all of them have a white shirt and we dont want them buying a black shirt..... after the wedding i reminded him about my black shirt suggestion and he was apologetic for saying no to my suggestion when he saw how nicely the girls look and how the blue sash just pops with their all black dress..... but the groomsmen still looks good anyway, so i'm good.....and yeah, that's the boutonniere i made that they're wearing...
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