Two Sketches for Loula’s custom wedding dress

Loula's custom wedding dress sketches 1&2

After playing around adding images to our Pinterest group board, I narrowed the inspirations for Loula’s custom wedding dress down a bit.  I added our absolute favorites into a Pinterest board called “For Loula (for Real).”  I began to see that there were two competing styles:  an architectural style and a romantic style.  Since there […]

Back to the drawing board! And back to the blog!

Brooks Ann Camper Bridal Couture

Where was I???! Only a few short posts ago I began blogging about Margaret!  The wedding is this weekend!  Margaret’s custom mother-of-the-bride dress and jacket (as well as the bride Mary’s custom jacket and accessories) are now completely finished and gorgeous and I finally have time to fill you in on how we got there! […]

Sketching and the Design Proposal Website

Brooks Ann Camper Bridal Couture

After our fun Design Consultation, I couldn’t wait to start brainstorming and sketching Margaret’s custom mother-of-the-bride dress.  I have a large cutting table where I spread out all of our favorite images and our beautiful fabric. I took some posed photos of Margaret during our meeting.  I looked through those and printed out the one […]

Two new Design Options for Lila Rose!

I like my brides to be overwhelmed with delight when they see the sketches for their dress.  While Lila Rose loved the designs enough to go ahead and book the dress, it still wasn’t quite right yet. So I went back to the drawing board (and Pinboards) to come up with something that encompassed all […]

Lila Rose’s (first (and second)) Design Proposal

After my Design Consultation with Lila Rose, I spent many hours thoughtfully considering all of our ideas as I delved into designing!  I needed to create a colorful wedding dress that encompassed all of the bride’s wants into one cohesive budget-friendly design that I could stand behind.  The pencil sketch above is what I came […]

The Design Consultation

A few months ago, Lila Rose flew in from Boston for her Design Consultation.  I picked her up from the airport early in the morning and we got straight to work! The Design Consultation is the meeting where we share all of our favorite design ideas, and then edit them down into what works best […]

The Design Proposal

Isn’t it lovely?? Inspired by my new bride and our Design Consultation, I started sketching Greta’s custom couture wedding dress.  I had taken a few snapshots of Greta before she left my studio, so that I could use it for the base of her sketches.  (I even handed her a candlestick holder and told her […]

The Design Process

The Design Consultation is one of my very favorite parts of the whole bespoke process.  Greta came back to my studio and we talked a lot about all of our ideas for her wedding-dress-to-be. We sorted through lots of inspiration images making ‘no’, ‘maybe’ and ‘favorite’ piles.  We had some clear favorites!  There were even […]

The Sketch

      Original Sketch ©Brooks Ann Camper Bridal Couture   After viewing her Design Proposal website, Michelle contacted me and said that she loved the sketches!  Though she hadn’t decided which one was her choice, she was ready to sign the contracts, pay the deposit and book the dress! Her mom was coming back […]