Purple wedding dress ideas

vneck wedding dress full skirt cadbury purple silk

I have lots of purple wedding dress ideas to share with you. I made all these dresses from scratch, each is a bespoke wedding dress made for a real bride or for a photoshoot model.

Purple wedding dresses evoke a wide range of ideas, from royal grandeur to alternative anti-fashion. Paler lilacs and mauves seem spring-like and floral. Famous purple wedding dresses include the Vivienne Westwood design for Dita Von Teese and Victoria Beckham’s reception dress.

If you are looking to have a pruple wedding dress made please come and share your ideas with me. At a bespoke consultation we talk through what you want made, look at fabric options and draw up sketches and a quote.

Cadbury and deep purple wedding dress ideas

Dipdye colour, lilac, purple and black applied to shop bought wedding dress. Photography by photoforrester

White and purple taffeta wedding dress with beaded spider web detail.

Ivory silk and lace bespoke wedding dress with purple satin sash. Photo by  www.jeaphotography.co.uk

Cadbury purple silk wedding coat-dress made for London photoshoot, you can order new copies with me direct or through my Etsy listing.

Purple and fuchsia 18th century inspired fantasy wedding dress with sacque-back train and feather bodice. Size 10 sample available for sale. Photography: Caroline Horne Suffolk Photography

Bespoke wedding dress in ivory and purple silk dupion with hand embroidered purple butterflies.

Purple floating feather illusion cape made for a photoshoot. Sample available for sale. Photography by Paola de Paola

Pastel rainbow dipdye wedding dress. Photography by Pesto Wedding Photography

Lilac taffeta dress with silver lace made for a photoshoot. Size 8 sample available for sale. Photography – The Image Cella

Bridgerton inspired wedding dress with pink and lilac dipdye and lilac bolero. Photos by Kate Hennessy Photography

Mauve dipdye colour on organza layer of bought wedding dress. Photos by Briana Drury

Pink and lilac didpye colour added to tulle wedding dress using my signature spray dipdye technique. Photo by  expressionwed

If you would like to know more about having your own purple wedding dress ideas made into a reality do get in touch. You can book a free design consultation or just ask me any questions by email. I also have information pages covering most FAQ on the bespoke and dipdye colouring processes.

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Felicity Westmacott

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Especially if it's the bride's mother's wedding dress from the 80s, hand dyed to the perfect shade of warm pink, and restyled to evoke the iconic Vivienne Westwood. 

There's definitely a lot of happiness in that. 

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This wedding dress took the most paint I've ever used for one of my dip-dye creations. 

Victoria's wedding dress is beautiful in part because it's so full, and that fullness comes from layers. So before I could even get to the main event, I had two underlayers to spray, both with long trains.

When it comes to spraying, the best setup is one where you're away from everything else, with good ventilation. Where better than outside? That does mean dressing to keep warm, and in clothes you don't mind getting a bit painty.

But all that effort was so worth it. Victoria chose such a gorgeously unusual colour palette - deepening from lilac, through purple, into black. It's regal, gothic, and has a real fantasy feel. And I think dyeing the full-length lace sleeves to match really finishes off the look.

What do you think of this colour combination?
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