Wedding Dress Beading

jimbo_the_jetset

Hello everyone,

My fiancee has bought a plain dress (so I'm told) and wants to add her own beading to make it special. We've been to a few shops and found some ok simple clear/pearl type beading that should be ok for some of it. She really had her heart set on some smallish flower shaped beads but we can't seem to find anything, either shops or internet.

Can anyone point us in the direction of anything like this? Next idea we had was to ask a dressmaker if they could either point us in the direction of somewhere we can buy something like that or give them the pattern idea and see what they can come up with. Although we thought as beading would be time consuming that a dressmaker might be quite expensive to do this, hence my fiancee's idea of doing the beading herself onto some material for the dressmaker to sew on when she gets it fitted properly.

Thanks

MrsTinks

Have you tried places like hobbycraft etc? you might find they have some in the card making areas... Odd I know
Otherwise the tried and tested Ebay I guess

paddingtondoo

Hi,
Have you tried The Range. I picked up some red beads for 99p.

I also found these http://www.beadinguk.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1037&osCsid=ee2ed1b4b31a4f5289579d7465a36e75
but am not sure if this is what you're looking for. I ordered the beads for my wedding jewellery and buttonholes from here. They deliver really quickly and do small packs so you can have a look without buying a huge amount.

HTH

jimbo_the_jetset

Thanks for the input, I think my fiancee might be chickening out of doing it herself now. Plus a work colleague has recommended a local dress maker who used to make wedding dresses for Brides of York, so I think that might be the first port of call.