Winter Wedding

sally_pearson

I am getting married in Febrauary. I am worried about the weather. Where can I find suitable dress that will I be ok with a normal wedding dress. i.e. strapless, long.
Someone please put my mind at rest. To be fair I'll only be outside for a short ammount of time and I am getting married late afternoon. Advice please. I don't want to spend a fortune.

lisyloo

Depends how strapped for cash you are but how about a long velvet cape with a hood (Scottish Widows style).

That would look lovely over a wedding dress and you could have a dark colour e.g. midnight blue, or a dark emerald green which would contrast with the white dress.

Know anyone that's good at sewing who could knock something up for you.
Would cost a bit for the material but my guess is that it's not a difficult garment to make for someone that knows what their doing.

Lillibet_2

Sally

I did exactly what Lisyoo suggested for my December wedding a few years ago. My Mum, who is handy with a sewing machine but no semstress, ran up a hooded dark green velvet cloak out of velvet curtain fabric! She lined it with regular dark green lining, although on reflection I wish she had used a satin lining at least for the hood, but it was lovely & warm over my strapless chiffon & silk dress. We theamed the colour to match the colour scheme of the wedding, which was dark green & gold (no need to decorate the reception, we just tied in our arrangements with their Christmas decorations). The cost of all the fabric, thread & pattern was under £70 & it has been used several times since, for fancy dress & loaned to a friend for a visit to the opera & theater etc. Just a shame the marriage didn't turn out nearly so well, but that's another story...........!

Wishing you the very best of luck.

PS : One other thing I learned from having a winter wedding, be careful which shoes you chose. The lovely pale coloured fabric shoes look fantastic against your dress in the shop, but if the ground outside is even a little bit damp they absorb the moisture & mud & transfer it to your dress! Try to get leather or patent if you can!

sally_pearson

What a good idea. Thanks.

kellywestie

Hi, I got married just before Christmas and had a short fitted red velvet jacket with an ivory dress. A lot depends on what style of dress you choose. I don't remember being cold, too excited/nervous I suspect, and we had an open horse drawn carriage as well !!!!

Spare a thought for your attendants as well, I guess they would like to be nice and toastie too!

Hope you enjoy your day and I bet you won't feel cold even in a strapless number!

System

Hi

I worried about this as well (January wedding, 2002). I had bad memories of my first wedding, walking up the church path in a snowstorm, my veil getting blown all over and snowflakes down my cleavage. Also satin shoes weren't a good idea.

As a widow I never intended to wear white, strapless, but I also think the idea of a hooded cape in velvet is lovely. Wish I'd done this over the turquoise broderie anglaise dress I had planned for a summer/spring/autumn wedding. In fact I had a moss-green velvet dress made with an over-tunic in gold embroidery and a little 'handkerchief' veil. It all looked very rich and glowing in the church lights. And the marriage, although 2nd for me and 3rd for him, is wonderfully happy.

I didn't want to coincide with Christmas, so mid-January it had to be. My matron-of-honour had a velvet dress in old gold.

At least it looked 'different' from the 'little suit with a hat' that everyone seemed to be advocating for the older bride.

Good luck to you!

M