Custom made dress??

zirithium

Hi, Ive fallen in love with a wedding dress with a nice price tag of 5 and a half grand!!! this is way out of my price range and ive tried to forget it but everytime i see it in a high end magazine my heart skips a beat...sad i know! anyway, a friend suggested i get a similar style made by a dress maker. she said Landy make dresses but i cant find anything on the site. Does anyone have any advice about getting dresses made and what kind of prices we are talking? the dress i love is a corset body with a short full skirt (its a suzanne neville) thanks in advance

xJayJayx

you need to email them a pic and ask them if they can make it for you and how much it will cost then go from there!

zirithium

i think i must be blind...could you tell me where the link is to send an email?

mshelsbels

Try sending it to this lady - I'm having one copied from a pic too and Roselyn has been brilliant!

roselin@landybridal.com

Hels

sal-ad_daze

Just a word of caution though, Landy and Milly do make cheaper dresses but their corsets aren't to the standard of Suzanne Neville, Hollywood Dreams et al. That's part of the reason their dresses are so expensive so if the firm well made corset is an important part of the dress, it's very important you ask them questions about how this will be made.
Just don't want you to be disappointed.

roxalana

Show us a pic - we like drooling...

xJayJayx

i agree with OP, however you can't expect too much for a £200 dress, if you can afford it and the boning isn't strong enough (if you choose landy or milly that is) you can always pay a dressmaker to add the extra boning for more support which some people have done. HTH

madfrenchgirl

Or you could just ask them to put in more bones: I went to try a Sweetsend dress in Reading (they are the Sweetsend Factory Shop on ebay) and their corset was excellent: I am big boobed and felt absolutely at ease in a strapless dress!

Ruthie5

When I was dress shopping, I wondered about using these guys:

http://www.blushnblooms.co.uk/85.html

I didn't contact them in the end, so couldn't recommend as such, but their readymade dresses were reasonable, and they said they would give you a quote if you sent them a JPG picture.

Might be worth thinking about if you would prefer to deal with someone in the UK.

lindaatno9

Is it this one?
http://www.highsocietybridal.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/short_antoinette_mini1.jpg

lindaatno9

xJayJayx wrote: »

you can always pay a dressmaker to add the extra boning for more support

Just wanted to highlight this small bit.
Not an easy task to do as the corset can be constructed from as few as 5 pieces. The boning it attached to an inner section. So, imagine a sandwhich with the middle one having "the filling" As a dressmaker, if someone asked me to take a corset apart to add extra boning, I wouldn't undertake the job because it's not cost effective to me or can be alot of money to the client. My opinion as I know you said some have done it.
The professional designers will use couture skills in their construction and along with the fabrics is why the dresses are so expensive. Their dresses are more "works of art" than anything else.
However, many designers are using demi-couture to try and get their dresses more affordable. But, even knocking 40% off the price tag still amkes them out of reach for the likes of "normal people" lol.