'Hedwig' Wedding Dress

This wedding dress design is quite dramatic. It's based around another wedding dress, worn by Hedwig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp in 1774. The wedding dress that inspired this is really beautiful, it is a silver colour and has the most amazingly wide skirt. It's not the sort of thing that many people would choose to wear to get married in now though, particularly because the waist looks unhealthily tiny. My design uses some of the elements of the Hedwig wedding dress to create something that could be worn today.

The design is a creamy white, because although the original wedding dress is silver, I really like a traditional white wedding dress. The design has short sleeves that are off the shoulders, with a ruffle of very pale lace all along the neckline. Around the neckline there is also embroidery in a pale gold thread that follows the shape of the neckline. Other than this, the bodice is fairly plain. The skirt is very wide, and has a ruffled overskirt around the sides and back. The underskirt has lines of lace evenly spaced down the skirt. The skirt is floor length.

I hope you liked this design. For more designs, check back here next week, or visit my every-day wear blog: www.bronzedaledesigns.blogspot.co.uk/. 

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