tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32540525.post3568460822192143326..comments2024-03-28T02:59:47.444-05:00Comments on Art In Stitches: Picking the Right Dress for The Big DaySusan Lenzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13828597703914908801noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32540525.post-23708851025918772992021-05-03T14:06:25.025-05:002021-05-03T14:06:25.025-05:00This is so fantastic! I love all the pics of you ...This is so fantastic! I love all the pics of you in the wedding dresses and the fantastic (!!) idea of the wrap-around interactive wedding dress!Shannonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12464425603323257233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32540525.post-89917117219558975272021-04-28T23:42:53.887-05:002021-04-28T23:42:53.887-05:00I never had a true wedding dress but it was "...I never had a true wedding dress but it was "white with red trim and red buttons" and it was about as mini as it could get in the early 1970s! I had my hair done at the local salon in the morning, off the cuff as such and the lasses were shocked that I was getting married that very arvo in the registry office in town. A slap dinner at a steak house in central city (Perth, Western Australia) back to work on Monday. A month later a strange train trip/tour to the southern coast of Bunbury! Where we ended up sleeping in a single bed!!! The following year we we swanned off to Singapore and stayed somewhere rather posh...<br />There was no family in attendance, his in the UK and mine back here in NZ...we separated in the early 1990s...<br />Did I ever want a full on married in white/ivory day? I've no idea but I don't want to repeat either type of performance :-) Catherine - Mixed Media Artist https://www.blogger.com/profile/00078469979235492814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32540525.post-76901135468324254382021-04-28T16:51:09.796-05:002021-04-28T16:51:09.796-05:00What a wonderful project! If I'd known about ...What a wonderful project! If I'd known about it, I'd have sent you my wedding dress, which I made in 1975 -- I was married in August of that year. It's 100% off-white polyester, including the lace sleeves, and it has a built in train (not too large). The sleeves are narrow and at each wrist is a row of three pearl buttons, going up the forearm, that came from the ones my maternal grandfather used to sell. I can't fit into it anymore...and have pondered cutting it up. My daughter didn't wear it, and I have no granddaughter to which to pass it on. So it hangs in a garment bag in my closet...for now.Margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04472013513744969837noreply@blogger.com