Felicity Westmacott - Wedding dress for Katie Darvall

Wedding dress for Katie Darvall
Official Wedding pictures by Kate Bellinger

Butterfly wing dress with pale green edging and hand beading.

Simple ivory satin dress with sweet heart neckline and halter strap. The bias-cut skirt flows from the underbust line with silk georgette 'wing' panels laid over the top and extending onto the train at the back.

The beading was all applied by hand, a mix of Swarovski crystals, natural quartz and turquoise stones, seed beads and sequins. The beading was thickly applied around the neckline, fading away over the bodice and applied in informal scatters on the coloured wing edges.

Similar styles from £1200
With silk fabrics and detailing as shown £2670
Included hand beading @£935

Wedding dress for Katie Darvall
Official Wedding pictures by Kate Bellinger

Katie designed the look and detail of her whole wedding day to perfection. She is a designer herself and knew exactly what she wanted!

Visit Katie's website to see more of her work and so see how she can help with the concept and design of your big day!
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Wedding dress for Katie Darvall
Official Wedding pictures by Kate Bellinger

Katie Wrote: I want to thank Felicity for making me the most wonderful wedding dress! I tried on quite a few ready made ones and had an idea of what I wanted but nothing was quite right. It was very easy taking my ideas to Felicity who designed and then made the perfect dress for my special day. I was able to incorporate my colour scheme (Aqua) and theme (Butterflies) by having the dress made specifically for me and of course it also meant that it fitted beautifully. The cost worked out at no more than buying a shop bought one too!

I had so many compliments on the day itself and am still getting them now when people see the photos- I would highly recommend using Felicity's services to anyone who is getting married.... Many thanks, Katie.

Wedding dress for Katie Darvall
Official Wedding pictures by Kate Bellinger

Wedding dress for Katie Darvall
Original design sketches

Left: Katie's own sketch that she brought to our first design consultation.
Right: How the design developed.
Bottom: Development sketches for the neckline.

Wedding dress for Katie Darvall

Pictures of the dress during the making process

Top left and bottom right: working out the wing edge shapes by cutting them out of paper and pinning them to the dress.
Top right: beading the bodice
Bottom left: Beading the wing edges

Wedding dress for Katie Darvall
modelled by client

Pictures from Katie's last fitting before the beading was applied.

Wedding dress for Katie Darvall
Official Wedding pictures by Kate Bellinger

All finished and ready to go

Wedding dress for Katie Darvall
Official Wedding pictures by Kate Bellinger

Wedding dress for Katie Darvall
Detail of neckline beading

The beading was all applied by hand, a mix of Swarovski crystals, natural quartz and turquoise stones, seed beads and sequins. The beading is thickly applied around the neckline, fading away over the bodice and applied in informal scatters on the pale green wing edges.

Guide Price for similar beading: £935
Neckline £400
Wing edges £475
Mix of beads and stones as shown £60

Wedding dress for Katie Darvall
Detail of train

The train spread out (left) and buttoned up for dancing (right)

Wedding dress for Katie Darvall
Beading samples

Beading samples of the wings edges and neckline were sent to Katie before beading commenced on the actual dress. This saves costly and time consuming mistakes in case what we each imagine after consultation doesn't quite match!

Wedding dress for Katie Darvall
Beading in progress

Wedding dress for Katie Darvall with matching ties and hankies Official Wedding pictures by Kate Bellinger

Katie commissioned tie and hankie sets to match the pale green edges of her dress.
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