It seems like yesterday that Heather and her mother came for their first appointment to design Heather’s wedding gown. It was six years ago! Heather’s wish was to convert her grandmother’s wedding dress into a more contemporary design. Heather was keeping with tradition, as her mom wore the gown when she got married. Read More

1. Look your best. This is a great bit of advice for when you shop for and try on wedding dresses. You will be looking at yourself in a mirror the entire time you are at the shop. If your hair isn’t pretty or your make up is a mess, that’s what you will focus […] Read More

1. Plan your dress budget. It is as essential as planning your wedding budget. It is important to give yourself a range and have flexibility, but keep it real. If your dream dress is over your allotted budget, you have to reduce other parts of the total wedding budget. This is about the money, not […] Read More

My dear daughter, Emily, exhibited incredible faith in me. The design was set in January 2017. The petal making started in February 2017. She didn’t see the progress of the petals (she got daily verbal reports) or any progress on her dress at all until she came to town for her bridal shower in October […] Read More

I have been creating one of a kind designs for 18 years since I left NY, with hundreds of designs that I manufactured for bridal retailers before I moved to Ohio. Each one is a masterpiece. Thousands of them! Designing my daughter’s was a given. I didn’t anticipate the amount of emotion I would feel […] Read More