Wedding dress for Alice Easton
Official Wedding pictures by Laurence Photography

Alice commissioned a beautiful dress in layers of white chiffon with diamante detailling.
The dress has a fitted and boned bodice with soft v-shaped neckline and invisible zip back closure. The waistline is decorated with a double loop of hand beading in swarovski diamante stones with echoes scattered all down the train.

Similar styles from £1200
With fabrics and detailing as shown £3840
Included hand beading in Swarovski Diamante @£1660

Wedding dress for Alice Easton
Official Wedding pictures by Laurence Photography

The dress was created in 6 layers of silk crinkle chiffon over a silk satin base. Netting held out the shape of the skirt.
Each chiffon layer was cut shorter than the one beneath creating graduated petals on the skirt. The edge of each chiffon layer was finished with a roll hem that made them curl and frill a little to emphasise the layering.

Wedding dress for Alice Easton
Official Wedding pictures by Laurence Photography

You'd never guess from these pics that Alice had just had a baby just a few months before!
Alice also had her two grown-up bridesmaids dresses made
Click here to see more pictures of the bridesmaids.

Wedding Dress for Alice Easton
The original design sketch for Alice's dress

Wedding dress for Alice Easton

Alice wrote: Thank you so much for all the hard work and stunning detail you put into making every dress, tie, hankie and knickers!! I felt amazing on the day and it's all down to you. Thank you so much. Lots of love Alice, Richard and Esme

Wedding Dress for Alice Easton
Detail of the waistline beading

We used Swarovski diamante stones in a mix of shapes including oval, round, square-cut, marquise and drop shape to create Alice's ultra-sparkley detailing.

This hand beading took 42 hours work (£1050) and used £610 of Swarovski stones

Wedding Dress for Alice Easton
Detail of the waistline beading

I created a diamante buckle to finish the waistline of Alice's dress and to be something lovely to see when Alice turned her back.
To see more pics of how the beading was created click here.

Wedding Dress for Alice Easton
Detail of the waistline beading

The buckle fastened across the zip with a hook to make dressing easy on the day.

Wedding Dress for Alice Easton
Detail of the waistline beading in progress.

To see more pics of how the beading was created click here

Wedding Dress for Alice Easton
Fitting Pictures.

Alice at her very first fitting in the 'toile' or trial run in cheap fabric.

Wedding Dress for Alice Easton
Fitting Pictures.

At her second fitting Alice tried on the dress in the real fabrics for the first time.

Wedding Dress for Alice Easton
Fitting Pictures.

On the left is Alice at an intermediate fitting and the two pictures on the right are her final fitting in the finished dress. The picture on far right shows how the train hooks up for dancing.

Wedding Dress for Alice Easton
All finished and ready to go.
After her final fitting I steamed Alice's dress to perfection and prepared it to be collected. The dress has been stuffed with tissue paper to hold its shape and prevent creasing whilst it travels. Alice was also provided with a long, waterproof, gown-bag to protect the dress

Wedding Dress for Alice Easton
Detail of the wrist loop so that Alice could pick up the train herself for walking across grass etc. A ribbon bow and diamante sparkle to echo the detailing provide a pretty finish to this feature.

Wedding Dress for Alice Easton
Layers and colours

Alice wanted a snow-white dress but was worried that the bright white colour would wash her out so we used the layering of the dress to good effect. The very top layer of chiffon was actually a pale ivory (called 'bleached white) instead of the same 'optic white' as the other layers. You can just about see the difference in these pictures though the effect was very subtle. This meant a slightly warmer tone was nearest to Alice's face while keeping the dress a lovely clean white.

Wedding Dress for Alice Easton
Detail of the train motif beading

Each layer of the skirt had a pretty motif hand applied in diamante stones to echo the sparkle at the waistline and provide interest at the back of the dress.

Mother of the Bride dress for Karen Easton & Bridesmaids dress for Alice Easton
Official Wedding pictures by Laurence Photography

Left: Alice with her Mother, Karen, who also had her outfit created bespoke by Felicity Westmacott. To see more pics of the Mother of the Bride outfit click here

Right: Alice's grown up bridesmaids and flower girls all had their dresses made.
Click here to see more pictures of Alices's beautiful bridesmaids Or click here for the flowergirls.

Ties for Alice Easton
Official Wedding pictures by Laurence Photography

Alice's groom and the groomsmen all had ties and hankies made in silver satin to match the bridesmaid's sashes.
For more details click here