In honor of the Ultimate Wedding Dress Guide big Finale...I got married!! Follow along as I design and sew my own wedding dress from the scraps of other wedding dresses and take that big walk down the aisle!! Again!

Today’s big topic is preparing for your wedding day. We are going to discuss how to get ready for the trip to the venue, what information you need to know, leading up to the day, and how to make the big day run as smoothly as possible!

One of the most important details leading up to your wedding day is making sure that you have all the critical information you want to have on hand, all in one place. The wedding day seems to go by in a flash, but as it’s happening, you want to have access to the information you need quickly.

Even the sound of those words can set many brides' hearts a flutter, we know this can be a very nerve-racking part of the process. After the exhilarating and daunting task of finding your perfect dress, now it’s time to get the perfect fit, and we are here to help! Having professionals with many years and many dresses of experience is an obvious benefit, but many brides want to better understand the process of alterations themselves so today we are going to walk through each actual step that we will take during your fitting appointment and throughout the process of actually altering your dress once you have left it in our capable hands.

To begin, though all wedding dresses are incredibly unique, like many alterations we follow a very specific process, moving from each part of the dress to the next, making sure that we are confirming the fit in each area, beginning at the top of the dress and moving down to the floor and finally back to the train.

Welcome back to the ultimate wedding dress guide! In part three we will cover one of the most exciting experiences of the process; trying on dresses!

In our previous post we covered the timeline and tips for shopping preparation. We discussed how to schedule an appointment and covered the checklist for what and who to bring to the appointment.
In todays post we get to physically go shopping!

From the begining of your dress search, through purchasing, finding out lead times on dress shipping, alterations and getting the dress to the wedding venue on time, there are tons of important checkpoints to meet along the way.

We’re going to take you through every single step of the elaborate and exciting wedding dress process, from finding your inspiration, to shopping for gowns, all the way to your walk down the aisle!

In this six part series we are going to cover everything you ever wanted to know about your wedding dress from proposal to your walk down the aisle! Not only have been interviewed wedding industry expertes acorss the board from wedding salon owners to venue operations directors, we’ve also create follow-along worksheets for every epsidoe to help to track your progress through the series.