Custom Wedding dress UK fishtail with lace

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Madeleine commissioned a slim fitting custom wedding dress uk in ivory lace over duchess satin.

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The dress has a fitted and boned bodice with scooped, strapless neckline. The skirt is very fitted over the hips before flaring into a dramatic fishtail over netting to support the shape. The back of the dress has a low back to echo the front with a concealed zip to fasten and decorative buttons covered in the same lace and satin as the main dress. The train was cut extra full for a sumptuous look and the whole hem was edged with a pretty scalloped lace border.

Madeleine wrote: I just can’t thank you enough for making my dress so perfect. I loved it and so did everyone else! I’ve had so many comments!

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Strapless fishtail wedding dress in Ivory lace by Felicity Westmacott, thank you letter

Dear Felicity,

Thank you so so much for the amazing dress! You had the image I had in my head and made it real and I just can’t thank you enough for that! Lots of love,

Madeleine xxx

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Detail of the back, concealed zip and round cover buttons.

Making Madeleine’s Dress

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Design sketch of a custom wedding dress uk: The neckline was changed before the dress was actually made up, as Madeleine had some new ideas (see next pic).


Madeleine found her perfect neckline inspiration from seeing SJP’s dress in these pictures. To echo the the wide rounded neckline and we dipped the back of the dress too. Sex and the city wedding dress inspiration.

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Madeleine’s chosen lace fabric as in my sample book

Toile fitting pictures (practice run)

The Final Fitting of Custom wedding dress uk

In her finished dress and below shows the train spread out and hooked-up in a bustle for dancing.

If you’d like to talk to me about having your own custom wedding dress uk made just get in touch.

You can see more about the bespoke dressmaking process on my FAQ page.

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Felicity Westmacott

I write about all aspects of weddings, dressmaking, fashion history, and the human relation to clothing. I welcome comments and debate.

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Here is a selection of some of the techniques I use to create a bespoke wedding dress. Each dress will combine a different set of the skills I have acquired over my 20 years of professional sewing, like puzzles put together from the same pieces each creating a different finished picture!

These include
pattern cutting,
machine sewing,
pressing,
draping and lace work,
cartridge pleating,
inserting eyelets for a lace up back,
'fussy-cutting' lace for applique,
hand beading,
making and sewing on matching cover buttons

....and so many more!
Just tell me someone else can relate 🙃 
we can be lil prawns together 🦐

Inspired by @paulosamu.art

#sewist #seamtress #sewinglife
Today is the draw day for the Wed4Pal raffle!⁠
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Thank you to everyone who entered - every ticket goes towards a truly worthy cause. 100% of ticket sales (minus mandatory transaction fees) will go towards addressing the genocide in Palestine, with 50% going to Pal Humanity (an organisation providing medical aid, education and lifesaving supplies in Northern Gaza) and 50% going to gorgeous Gazan couple, Sama and Khalil, and their families to help them sustain and rebuild their lives.⁠
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And good luck! I can't wait to find out who is the winner of my prize 👀⁠
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Illustrations: @karin_akesson_design
Wedding dress inspiration: Dorothy's ruby slippers 👠👠

Creating a bespoke look for a styled photoshoot means I really get to let my imagination run wild. I love picturing my ideal client when I design dresses like this - someone bold, who loves colour, couture and a little bit of whimsy.

Would you walk down the yellow brick road in this wedding dress?

This exact dress is currently part of my Sample Sale - follow the link in my bio, so it can finally click its heels and be whisked away to a new home.

#unconventionalbride #redweddingdress #weddingdressinspiration #2026bride

Photography by @adamrowleycreative⁠
MUA @anushasolanki⁠
Accessories @birdsandsirens⁠
Model @elodie.foray
Florist @darvalldesign
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