Designing your own wedding dress
17/10/2025 09:00 | Inspiration
How exciting it is to design your own wedding dress. A wedding dress designed to your own taste, preference and figure! We will give you the information you are looking for to design your own wedding dress with your bridal fashion designer.
Photo (left) : Wedding dress: Karolien Verstraeten - Photographer: LUX Visual Storytellers / Photo (center) : Wedding dress: Sikkema - Photographer: Elke Van Den Ende / Photo (right) : Wedding dress: Dianna David
Your own vision visualised
Everything starts with an idea, of course. So think about what your perfect wedding dress would look like. For this, you can create a mood board with photos of wedding dresses, styles, themes, ... to give direction to your own vision. Add your taste and style to your heart's content, but make sure there is a common thread throughout your mood board. That way the designer will know exactly which direction you want to take.
Where to find your designer?
Finding the right designer is of course very important when you want to design your own wedding dress . Pay attention to his or her experience and style, and look at photos of previous work. Is this a good fit? Then make an appointment and meet your designer in person. It is SUPER important that he or she understands and wants to apply your vision. A good click is essential!
Start designing your wedding dress
Your designer can start by making some sketches based on your mood board. Be sure to always give your honest opinion. Designers can sometimes have their own vision, so it is important that you point out where you might see things differently. Do you see the wedding dress of your dreams among the sketches? Then give your GO, so your designer can really get to work designing your wedding dress!
Things to remember, to design your wedding dress
The choice of fabric is of course entirely up to you when you design your wedding dress. You can choose between lace, tulle, rhinestones, organza, ... Let the designer advise you here. He or she has the experience and knowledge to know which fabric suits the style and model of your wedding dress so that your dream dress falls exactly as you envisioned it.
If you want to design your own wedding dress, you will try on your dress at a bridal shop as often as at your designer. So time need not be an issue.
Moreover, the cost of designing your unique wedding dress is not necessarily higher than a wedding dress from a bridal shop. Designers' starting prices are often really not that bad. Do you want an expensive fabric, a handmade design or a difficult design? Then you should discuss with your designer what effect this might have on your budget.
Try on your own wedding dress
Finally, you get to try on your wedding dress. First you get to wear a prototype, so you can indicate which adjustments still need to be made. This way, the dress will really be tailored to your wishes. Dream dress - here you come!
"If you want to be original, just be yourself. Because God never made two people exactly alike"
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