Making My Own Wedding Dress 👰🏻🧵 Sew With Me Bridal Edition

hey guys i am married oh guys i i just i i don't even know where to start it was the most perfect magical beautiful day honestly i can hardly believe it actually happened the way it did because it's just everything i've always dreamed of since i was a little girl it came true it was absolutely perfect and i am so so so happy we are both so so happy me and my husband i will have a blog post up very soon with photos from the wedding um talking you through the entire wedding how everything looks how everything went but this video right here is about something else this is about my wedding dress which i made i set out on that journey um shortly after we got engaged in autumn of last year i'm going to walk you through the entire journey i vlogged bits and pieces throughout the past months as i was working on the dress i'm gonna show you all of those clips but i guess we need to start at the beginning because i lost some footage there unfortunately that's you know it happens when you film over several months first i think i need to tell you a little bit about the inspiration for my wedding dress because i had a pretty clear view of what i wanted i picked out a style of dress fairly quickly so i knew i wanted a dress that was fit for a forest wedding since we got married in the woods wolf forest theme was pretty prevalent throughout the entire wedding and i wanted one i wanted the dress to fit with that so i definitely didn't want it to be too glamorous luxurious looking i guess so no shiny materials no rhinestones things like that i knew i probably wanted lace and tulle because i just love those materials i wanted a long skirt preferably a-line i'm really not into the whole mermaid or just tight fitting thing and i also didn't want a you know ball gown type of princess skirt because i didn't think again that would fit with the force theme very well so um something more loose and flowy and i knew for sure that i wanted sleeves long sleeves i set up a pinterest board and if you scroll through that you can notice that there are many similarities between the dresses that i pinned in general most of them have a deep v neckline front and back they have long bellowy sleeves made out of a thin sheer material usually lace or tulle a tight bodice and then a flared out kind of a-line skirt preferably with a train when i had a general idea of where i wanted to go i had a pinterest board i had more or less a direction i wanted to go in it was time to get started with making my pattern i wanted to draft everything myself so i started by draping a mock-up [Music] [Applause] me a couple of weeks later the situation with a pandemic caught a lot worse in the netherlands we were very worried that we were going to go into lockdown soon after so my friend and i decided to hop into the car drive over to the best bridal fabric store that i could find in the netherlands which happens to be way on the other side of the country so we made it a little road trip to go look for fabric honestly i just wanted to take a look physically at the fabrics that they had but once we arrived there oh gosh that was something incredible they had this entire section it was like this this dream sequence where you walk into a room and it just goes oh the store by the way is called fonholstoffe in tilburg but they have this section with bridal fabrics mostly what they have there is bridal lace and it was just mind-blowingly beautiful huge selection so we started going through that with one of the sales assistants and pulled laces and just everything was gorgeous one of the laces that first caught my attention i was like that is really really cute but i can't have that because it had a little bit of color in it and i wanted a white dress so you know i pushed that one to the side looked at all the other laces but i kept returning to that one lace the lace i was looking for was something botanical but i didn't want it to necessarily be very floral i didn't want roses or anything that looked very tropical you know in the flowers the flower motive kind of modern looking but still very classy and more or less timeless so it was really really hard to find a lace like that i found many of the laces a little bit too stuffy i guess maybe a little bit old-fashioned rosy this one lace was just perfect but it had that color and at that point i realized i don't know why it took me this long to realize that actually most of the dresses on my pinterest board are not actually white so many of them are a light blush or a very light cream or even a very light beige so at that point i spontaneously decided to run with it to make my dress not completely white get this lace with the color accent and run with that accent throughout the entire thing so i think it's time i show you the list here it is i have a little bit left over this is the lace i'm gonna show you a little bit more up close it is floral but abstract enough to not be any actual flower it is elegant and classy but also modern and i absolutely love the little beige blush soft colored border that it has i love the placement the kind of density of the appliques as well as the shape of them and yeah this is it this is my bridal lace so along with this i got a lining fabric and two colors of tulle i got off-white tool and i got a tool in a kind of you know beigey blush color to match the edge of my lace so my idea was to have my bodice and sleeves made out of this and then built a skirt out of layers of tulle layers of white and that beige blush color time for an update all right i'm wearing the mock-up part of it um i have a bodice that i'm pretty happy with i have a nice low back cutout and a low but still modest enough v in the front but there is an issue i am running into now that i've attached the sleeve and that's this yeah that is very unfortunate and very logical also i'm thinking i have two options here i can either close one of the sides make a higher neckline either front or back or i can have some kind of something that holds this together up top here like a string or a ribbon or something it's a bummer though i really like the idea of having both a low front and low back but if i have to choose between closing up the front and closing of the back i think i like this part better on myself like my collar bones then i do my back i'm probably gonna wear my hair down anyway so you won't be able to see much of the back so i think i'm gonna redo the mock-up with a closed back and see how i like it then and then that'll be one step done one step closer to the finished dress what i could do is leave this low back uh because i am planning on making the bodice out of the white fabric then a layer of the pink tool and then the lace on top i could do just a lace a only lace insert here to fill this up is that a good idea or is that a horrible idea the sleeve is going to be old lace by the way just lace um so maybe that might actually that might be nice let's remake this mock-up okay i look a mess i feel a mess so there is this young lady who emailed me after i announced that i was gonna make my wedding dress a few months ago she is a seamstress knows what she's doing and she offered to help me if there was anything that i was struggling with so i emailed her about the slipping shoulders and she told me that it is in fact possible to do a deep v front and back as i saw in um on my pinterest pictures of course and she told me there were a couple of ways to get that effect the most important thing is to cut the pattern pieces on the bias so that the threads actually pull the shoulder pieces together and then there is a second thing that you can do and that is to kind of cut the shoulder pieces in the back in the opposite direction of where you want them to go the thing is i think i kind of understand the theory of this but i also think that this is kind of beyond my skill level right now to trap myself i'm sure i could sew it but to draft this out of nothing i don't think i'm ready for that and it feels very big and overwhelming to me right now so i tried just cutting it on the cross crane didn't work didn't do enough i'm also struggling with my arm size those aren't good because when i lift my arms the whole thing just messes up and all in all today was a very frustrating day it was one of those blood sweat and tears moments and i bought a pattern i found this patterns for pirates pattern which as you can see has a deep v front and a dp back it cost me 8 euro so it was worth it no matter what i'm just gonna print this out and try it now they do say to use knitted stretch fabrics when using this and that might be where this is going wrong because i'm using muslin to make my muslin my mock-up which doesn't stretch my lining fabric doesn't stretch either the one that i picked for my dress the lace that i have stretches a little bit but only in the places where there is no lace like in the in between kind of mesh bits so it still might not work anyway what i wanted to say what i'm going to do now is to print out this pattern try it in my mock-up fabric and hopefully that'll at least help me get the princess seams right and the arm sign all the things that i have been struggling with anyway it also kind of feels like giving up but you know i think i was maybe a little bit overconfident going into this project i remember saying you know i can easily make a dress in a week and there hasn't been a dress yet that i haven't been able to make but in the words of my good friend hugo hohmut comes for the foul and here we are i had to buy a pattern but hopefully this will help i'm just gonna i'm gonna try it and we will see and if not i will have a little cry and then move on and do something else [Music] less than three months to go i may have an acceptable mock-up next to me here the sleeve isn't quite there yet but i am happy with the shape of the bodice i came up with a different design for the back this is gonna be just lace these top bits here this is gonna be the same as the front the sleeve is gonna be just lace and you know what i think it's time to just cut into my fabric because i've been putting that off for months now i keep fidgeting with this mock-up but at some point i just have to start working with the actual fabric i think i need to get over my fear and just finally do something so that i have something and i don't have to get married in a muslin i think it's time wanna hear the story about the girl who forgot to vlog there is a lot to get you guys up on so i think actually this was the day that i did my last update after i stopped filming i got into this flow like full-on hyper focus and i didn't stop sewing until i really had to go to bed maybe like midnight made some executive decisions on the shape of the back shape of the front so here is what i have now the front of my bodice i have my inner layer there we go and then my outer layer of lace this is the regular lace and as you can tell i have been cutting out little pieces of lace here we are little individual flowers and hand stitching them into this dress i have been doing that for a few weeks has it been weeks maybe two weeks now it was a lot of work but i am calling it done right now i did the most here and it's kind of tapering out as it's going to flow into more of just the lace i didn't want the contrast to be too big this weird bit right here it's gonna wrap around like this and then i'm gonna have just lace along the back here and i'd like to get maybe a little bit more of that done today but since i am now done with um stitching on all of the individual bits of lace i am now going to attach the bodice to the lining that i have here i finally ordered some shoes i found some shoes that will be perfect i think and so i know now now so i now know how long my legs will be and how long i need the skirt to be to be floring yeah we are slowly but surely making progress two and a half months to go until the wedding pressure is on [Applause] i am calculating my skirt measurements and i hope i did this right i really struggle with numbers but i put on my shoes this is a look hey look oh yes oh yes so that i hopefully measured the right length i didn't want it to be too ridiculously long and i did want a nice train so i have a 35 centimeter train now and then this should be the measurements i cut out hopefully but i'm going to test it first of course i just hope i have enough of this mock-up fabric left to do that okay so there's no way i'm getting that skirt onto the remainder of my mock-up fabric so i'm going straight onto my tool because apparently my tool is three meters wide which is insane and amazing i need that so i have here i don't know if you can tell so there's a very faint line across it hopefully the back um so that should be my center back seam and that should be my side seam with this being the full length of my skirt and this the full length of my train so there is a line going across it like that and i hope that is more or less how you make a circle skirt train i am just going to cut into it and if it's a complete failure i can always use it as a bottom layer i don't have to you know waste any of this fabric even if it doesn't work out i'm experiencing a couple of problems first of all this is so flimsy and airy that i can't tell what's going on at all like yeah i can see the general shape of the fabric but how this is gonna look when i do 20 more layers of this no idea so i'm not sure if i can base anything off of this second problem the waist has stretched out so much that it is now gigantic so i can't check that measurement either i'm struggling a lot also i feel like every time i measure this fabric it comes out a different length i think it's just it's probably just stretchy i've never worked with actually stretchy fabric before let me show you what i have currently please ignore the mess but yeah here we go so skirt i took 10 centimeters off the front because it was too long and now i think it's too short so that's the first thing but then again one moment it looks too short on the next it looks completely fine so i don't know what to think the back i think the train is definitely long enough i don't think it needs to be any longer than this but i can't really tell how it looks because it's just you know one layer of practically see-through fabric i think i think this will be this will be it um and i think i'm gonna lengthen the front of the skirt a little bit again skirts yeah i started doing skirts oh guys this was a roller coaster at first i did the measurements wrong then i realized i am literally marrying a mathematician why am i torturing myself like this so i had to recalculate and it turns out that wasn't even necessary originally i was planning to attach the skirts kind of right underneath each other each individual skirt would start right underneath the next one but then i realized that was my second panic moment that i don't have nearly enough fabric to have to do that when i went to buy my fabric i wasn't actually really going to buy my fabric i was just gonna go browse i realized that there was probably a lot down coming and i decided to just buy a bunch of fabric and i'm glad i did because we did go into lockdown and we probably won't come out of it until after the wedding but that's a different story so i just bought a bunch of fabric meters of two not having any idea how much tool i would actually need so then i suddenly realized i wouldn't have nearly as much as i thought i would i was only able to get three and a half roundabout skirts out of my white tulle and one and a half one and a half skirts out of my blush tool so i panicked a little bit but then when i actually laid them on top of each other i realized that it is actually plenty and it looks pretty good um i also had enough of my lace left that i could do a skirt out of that so long story short here is my skirt right now i'm making tea sorry but yes here we are oh isn't she beautiful this isn't sewn by the way it's just pin that's why it looks kind of weird there's a pin here and two one on the side but more or less this is the skirt a dress is shaping up coming together i have a bit of a train here just a short one yeah there was a lot involved in this i had no idea how to sew tool initially i figured that out i'm not loving these visible lines but i think there's no way around that at this point and i did need a center seam to um make this closure which is another thing i have no idea how i'm gonna do like how am i gonna finish this no idea who knows what's going on here is a layer of white blush lace blush white white that is the skirt and i think that gives the perfect amount of creaminess without it looking like a pink dress because if i lift the blush skirt up one level it looks like a pink skirt and that's not what i want i just want a hint of color and not you know for it to actually be a color even though the blush is very um subtle here's the color that's the dip yeah i don't think you can even tell on camera that well i just really really like it like this and the lace just peeking through i think when i move then you will get you know these hints of lace shining through and that's going to be so gorgeous i don't have an underskirt i had planned to do so many layers of tulle that i thought i wouldn't need an underskirt because there would be enough tool to become opaque i don't know what i was thinking lack of experience i think for the entire process of this i have no idea what i'm doing and just figuring it out as i go along and um it works out for the most part but this is just just ah so now i'm trying to decide whether i want to accept the sheerness or make an underskirt after all because that would be another layer of fabric and at that point i'm not sure this won't be too thick because i don't want to add you know too much bulk to the waist here i will have to see about that so i think i think what i'm going to do is just stitch baste all of these layers together try it on with like something skin colored underneath and see if it's acceptably here or whether i really really need to make an underskirt i don't have enough lining fabric this this lining material left to do a full underskirt i don't think i even have enough to make a shorter type of skirt there is still quite a bit of figuring out to do but we're getting somewhere something else i am doing i ordered these buttons they are pearl buttons but they came in and are um stark white and i was hoping for a bit more of a you know pearly color which is slightly cream i hate that i still can't go into stores because this would have been so much easier if i could just go out and buy you know underskirt fabric or buttons but now i have to order everything online it's kind of hard to tell how this would translate on camera but in real life it's just a pretty well it's too stark white for the dress yeah you can tell here the pearl looks almost bluish and i think it would just be nicer if it was a little bit more of a warmer colors i'm planning to have two here one up top here [Music] it is very much time for an update i'm practicing my hair makeup today there's a little sneak preview let me just turn off my music here a lot happened since i last spoke to you it is a week and a half until the wedding and the dress isn't quite finished but we're almost there i mean it's wearable right but there are still a couple of things that i want to tweak and improve i think i should give you an update i did buy extra fabric to make an underskirt which was a very good decision i'm very happy with that currently i'm just trimming the lace because that stretched out a lot in some places and i also got different shoes here we go walking dozen yes this is a look again but yeah i got different shoes a bit of a lighter color much better match with this dress a little bit of a shimmer in the back so here we go that is what the dress currently looks like it doesn't cover crosswell at all on this mannequin but you can see the dress quite well i think so the bodice is all finished i attached the sleeves very happy with how that came out both in the front and in the back i have my closures here i have nicer buttons i did end up getting different buttons and i'm very happy i did because i love these and those are just attached with those elastic hoops i have one up top here that is currently attached with a snap button but i don't like that it's visible so i'm gonna replace that with a loop after all sewed more appliques all along the waist here this is all hand sewn on but i think that came out fantastic as well just to form a transition between the bodice and the skirt and i just love how the skirt itself came out as well i love the lace peeking through i love how it's very subtly beige slash pink blush-ish colored you can't really tell that on camera i think it blows it out a little bit but in real life it's very clearly not stark white and it has a little bit of a baby train in the back here let me just drape that a bit more nicely for you so you can see yeah it looks a little like this just a baby one and all in all i am very pleased with where this is going glad i finally got to do my hair makeup trial this isn't it by the way i took it off because robert's gonna come home any moment now and i don't want him to see the whole thing but um yeah i tried on my tiara and oh i made a veil let me show you that i used the edge of the lace on the edge here there we go there's a little bit of that flower pattern repeating and it is again one layer of white and one layer of that blush cream you can tell that it's on the inside here and the outside is the white so it's just attached to a little comb it is about fingertip length this isn't a very accurate representation but yeah it more or less matches the skirt color so i'm quite happy with that as well i'm only gonna be wearing that during the ceremony probably one thing i do still want to change is this where the elastic is because i don't think i did a very good job at that the first time around so i'm gonna try and redo that but other than that and this snap button here i think after i trim the skirts it will be more or less finished i am very happy with it and i can't wait to show you how it looks with everything on oh i'm so happy i'm not entirely sure what happened yesterday i must have lost my mind because as i went to trim that skirt i for for some reason i just took way too much off and i did it very sloppily and then i took a step back and i saw what i did and i just i broke down mind you this is a week before the wedding um and i had kind of completely ruined it i didn't have the nerve to pick up the camera i filmed the whole thing so i sat down with my needle and thread and i hand sewed all the lace back on again luckily thank god you cannot tell so let me let me just show you there we are you can't you can't tell but then when you lift up the top skirts i still don't know how how i managed to do that but at least it's reattached you can't tell from the outside which is great um i attached it you know in the same place where it came from i just hope that it is secure enough and it'll hold and it won't just come off during the wedding i might secure it a little bit more in some points but for now at least it's on again um but it is now even more important that i do actually trim the bottom because if i step on this now i will definitely tear it off and that would be horrible so i am trimming it again a bit more sensibly this time this is all needed to come off why did i take off that much [Music] all right i put it on the bottom looks good lace is perfect now so a couple more details i need to fix and one thing i haven't shown you yet i embroidered the wedding date onto the inside of the dress i thought that was just a cute touch june 1st 2021 another thing i need to fix still is i have this hook and eye closure on the inside here but it's not good enough i'm gonna need to insert a zipper here so i'm just gonna go ahead and do that by hand i already mentioned the sleeves i still need to do those and this button and it can't be a snap button and a couple of these little applications are coming loose so i need to reattach those a bit more securely but we are very nearly there trying to walk in my shoes because these are absolutely horrible they're gorgeous but very very uncomfortable so i'm just gonna wear them and hope that they kind of stretch out in the right places tiny sneak preview of the dress on i made a loop on the bottom i hope you can see this i am very happy with the zipper in the back here that is much much much better because before it was just it just it just created holes and that wasn't good and i think it looks great so the tool is just left open and underneath the bottom layers those are zippered now really all that's left to do is just the sleeve cuffs and i think the dress will be pretty much done i can't wait i can't wait to be able to say that it is actually finished here it is guys my wedding dress i made it i made it so that last clip you saw was shots last week i think and in the meantime i did actually finish the sleeves they turned out beautiful so much neater i ended up hand stitching them because doing that my machine just didn't work now it is time for the reveal i am going to show you some photos from the wedding i'm gonna end the video with that so i want to thank you so much for watching guys for embarking on this journey with me of sewing my own wedding dress it was a lot of work blood sweat and tears but it was so worth it because in the end my dress turned out exactly how i wanted i was able to customize everything perfectly the way i wanted it and i also saved a lot of money i think it's useful maybe if i share for other people who want to do this as well i think in the end i paid close to 400 euros in materials and that was the entire dress done including the extra fabric i had to buy for the underskirt and i did actually look up a couple of those dresses of my pinterest board similar dresses and i know those definitely cost several thousands so i actually saved money as well yay but most of all it was just really fun it was a great way to prepare for the wedding something you know a way that i could feel like i was actually doing something while we were planning a pandemic wedding and weren't even actually sure that it was going to be able to happen you know so it was something to have control over and i really i needed that during the planning process enough talking thank you so much for watching guys here is the dress [Music] you

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Length: 33min 38sec (2018 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 08 2021