So...I made my wedding dress?!
On the 23 April 2026 we eloped to the beautiful Highlands. It was the best day, and it really is as beautiful as it looks.
Making my own wedding dress was never on my radar. I've developed my sewing skills a tiny bit at a time over the last few years, but I never thought I'd be equipped to take on such a big technical project.
A few months back when I stumbled across this SKOGSDUVA duvet cover in
@ikeauk , I took myself by surprise when an image sprung to mind.
There, in the kids bedding section of IKEA, I saw it;
A gown.
Miles of frills.
On the backdrop of beautiful scenery.
So I bought a few duvet covers, fully prepared to go wrong, and proceeded to plan in my head every night for weeks, far too scared to actually cut into it.
Eventually I tentatively started, and my living room coffee table became my sewing studio. I taught myself corsetry. I made hundreds of meters of bias binding. I modified patterns. I drafted my own patterns.
I made my whole wedding dress entirely tailored for me, and a little matching pocket square for my husband.
A milkmaid style top, a low cut back to show of the raccoon party on the back, wide slit balloon sleeves, a double tiered gathered skirt, an ultra high leg slit, BIG frills round the whole bottom hem, and every single internal seam carefully finished with bias binding. No cut corners. No rushed finishing. A fabric that was made for the Highlands.
I walked, climbed, scrambled and danced in the gown to a backdrop of mountains and lochs and I am so proud that I built something that looks like it was never made for anything but.
And yes, I absolutely will wear it at every given opportunity.
Photos by the amazing
@thescottishelopementservice & a few shots from Dad's camera too 📷❤️
