How to Pick Mother of the Bride Dress | Perfect Wedding - Corinne's Wedding Dress How To!

How to Pick Mother of the Bride Dress | Perfect Wedding




My name is Barbara Esses and I do events for
a living. I'm Ruthie Hecht; I'm an event planner
and I work with and for my mother. We're going
to teach you the do's and don'ts for the perfect
wedding. In the movie "Father of the Bride",
Diane Keaton wore the most beautiful beaded
jacket and skirt. She chose to be a conservative
mother of the bride. Today, mothers of the
bride can be all ages and choose very different
ways to look. Number one, tney need to look
in the same genre as the bride meaning that
if it's an evening event dress for the evening.
For the daytime dress for the daytime. They
obviously need to coordinate color with their
daughters and the bride should usually like
what the mother is wearing. There was a very
big tendency for a long time for there to
be what we call a mother of the bride dress
in fashion. That no longer exists today. Most
mothers of the bride want to be fashionable
but they don't want to wear anything that
was stereotyped in the 1970's or the 1980's.
The varieties of things out there are enormous.
The price differentials are enormous. So it's
a good idea to have an idea of what you want
to spend in mind before you go to the store
and to be quite honest with the salesperson
of what your budget is so they don't show
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you things for double the money which will,
you know, that you fall in love with and will
upset you. Mother of the bride has way too
many options and that's what makes it a very
difficult thing to dress a mother of the bride.




Corinne's Wedding Dress How To!




Hey, Thread Heads.
Well, I'm officially
a married woman, woo,
and I wanted to share with you
how I made my DIY wedding dress,
just in case you were interested
in making your own version of it.
It could work for a prom dress.
It could work for a wedding dress.
It could work for a costume.
I'm really happy with how
it came out.
There's definitely things
that I would change about it now,
knowing what I know now.
It was totally a learning process,
going through the steps
of figuring out how to make it.
I had never made a corset before,
so I had to learn how to make
a corset first.
I actually made two versions
of the dress
before making it
in the duchess satin
that I used for the final dress.
The fabric that I'd bought
for the final version of the dress
was about $25 a yard.
I bought my fabric
from this website.
Again, it was $25 a yard,
so when you're practicing
making the dress
you really want to use something
that does not cost as much.
But let me tell you,
even when I used muslin
to make a mock-up of the dress,
I had that bridal feeling
when I tried on the muslin version
of the dress.
That's how in love with it I was.
I altered the pattern a little bit
before I made the final version
of the dress,
and I totally shouldn't have
done that because I didn't
have time to test out
the alteration
before I did it
on the final fabric.
I was literally sewing
the last button on
at 6:00 a.m. in the morning,
and we were leaving at 7:00 a.m.
to get on the plane to fly
to where the wedding was,
so it was chaotic.
I really don't feel like I
waited until the last minute.
I mean, I spent a lot of time
doing mock-ups of the dress
and figuring out the fit
and the patterns
and even the skirt of the dress.
I originally wanted to do
a fitted skirt
that was more of a mermaid-type
situation,
and it was really difficult.
I couldn't get it to look
how I wanted it to look,
so I abandoned that idea
completely,
and I actually ended up using
a circle skirt pattern
to make the skirt portion
of the dress.
And it worked out really great.
It's actually super easy
The hardest part about making
the dress for me
was keeping the fabric clean,
because you can get white fabric
dirty like that.
So basically, what I had to do
was tape
white paper down
all over the floor
and do everything on top
of that white paper.
So when I was cutting out
the circle skirtâ€"
and again, it's a floor-length
skirt,
so the circle was huge.
You can learn how to make
your own circle skirt.
It's super simple.
It's literally you make
the big circle
and then the smaller middle circle
where your waist hole would be.
I have done a circle skirt tutorial
before,
but there's many circle skirt
tutorials here on YouTube.
Actually, Secret Life of a Bio Nerd
just did a great one,
so if you want to learn how to
make your own circle skirt,
I would check out her tutorial.
I also made a lining
using the same pattern,
but I used a bridal lining fabric
that can be found
at voguefabricsstore.com.
They have everything you need
to sew a professional garment.
That's where I got all of my
corset boning from, the steel
boning.
I got all the specialty needles
and pins you need
to sew satin and silk.
You need really, really sharp
needles to sew that type of fabric,
otherwise you'll get puckering,
and no one wants that.
You can always try to press out
puckering,
but, for the most part,
you'll always see a slight pucker
if you don't use the right needles
and the right thread.
So you really want to take
those precautions
because it's really sad when you've
spent a lot of money on your fabric
and kind of skimp on the needles
and end up that being the downfall
of your garment.
So make sure to get
the right needles.
Again, voguefabricsstore.com
has just everything you need.
The hardest part about sewing
the skirt portion of the dress
was hand hemming the bottom hem
of the skirt.
It took about 12 hours.
I sat here and watched
wedding movies the whole time
I hemmed it
on top of my white paper.
I felt like a crazy person.
It just took a really long time,
but that's how you kind of have to
do it with formal garments.
You could just do a double-turn hem
and use the sewing machine,
and now I'm kind of wishing I
would have done that
because I literally got the bottom
of the dress so dirty.
When stuff like this happens,
you really question
spending 12 hours doing something.
There is still twigs in here.
Like, I literally have a twig
in the dress.
That looks like a footprint.
I'm pretty sure that's a footprint.
For the closure of the skirt,
I used an invisible zipper
and a waistband, and, again,
I've done videos on showing you
how to do that.
You can watch my how to sew
an invisible zipper video
to learn how to sew the zipper
and how to sew a skirt waistband
to sew the waist band
to the top of the skirt.
For the corset top, I used
the method
I show in my video on how to
create a costume corset.
I do everything the same.
I'm using an invisible zipper
in the back
to close the back up,
but instead of using
plastic boning,
which I show in that video,
I used steel boning.
It's a little bit more expensive,
but I'm telling you
it's so much more worth it.
Plastic boning only bends
like this,
but steel boning bends
back and forth but also
side to side.
It's pretty remarkable.
With plastic boning, you can have
some buckling
because it's not going to bend
the way that you need
it to bend for the boning channels.
For a very simple, straight-forward
corset or bodice top,
plastic boning could definitely
work,
but for something like this,
that you really want to define
your shape,
you really want to use
steel boning.
It is so much better.
I got all my steel boning
from voguefabricsstore.com
as well,
and they sell it
in different lengths,
so according to which section
you're putting that boning in,
you want to make sure you know
which size each section
of boning you're going to need.
This is kind of like what
the boning looks like.
It's really awesome because, again,
it bends this way,
and that's side to side,
and then obviously it bends
this way.
So it's pretty awesome.
This stuff is really cool.
And you want to make sure
that it has the
boning enders, the little caps
on the end,
because, otherwise, you could stick
through your fabric,
and you don't want that to happen.
Another difference in the corset
that I made for the wedding dress
versus what I show you to make
in my costume corset video
is that for the lining fabric
I used a cotil. I'm not sure
if I'm saying that right.
I'm mostly self-taught,
so I've never really actually heard
that word spoken to me,
but I'm pretty sure it's pronounced
cotil.
It's what they use
for ballet corsets,
and any type of standard
real-deal corset
is going to use this fabric.
It's a super strong fabric.
It is crazy.
It's super stiff.
There's no stretch to it.
So basically, why you want
to use this
is because then,
for your outer fabric,
you can use anything you want.
It can even have stretch, really.
But once you sew it
together with this lining fabric,
that fabric is not moving anywhere.
You are going to beâ€"
there is not going to be
any stretching
to the outer fabric.
Between this fabric
and the steel boning,
you're not going anywhere.
Cotil can be kind of expensive,
but this website has it
for a really good price,
so I would check that out
if you're interested.
Another little detail
that I really loved
about the corset that I made
for the wedding dress
is that I added black satin buttons
to the back, and essentially I just
hand sewed them
right through the lining fabric.
It was the last thing I did.
It was so last minute.
I couldn't worry about being
all picky about it,
so you can definitely still see
the stitching on this side,
but they look so beautiful
from this side.
I've always wanted to have
a wedding dress
with buttons down my back.
I just love the black satin buttons
that I actually got
from a website
called As Cute As a Button.
So if you're interested in finding
some black satin buttons,
that's definitely a good place
to get them from.
Also, you need the little
button loops.
You really don't need
the button loops
because I have the zipper,
and once it's all zipped together
it just looks like they're buttoned
because everything is so close
together-looking,
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but I wanted to make sure
that I did it right.
And the way that I added it
was super easy.
Before I put the zipper in,
I just sewed it right along
the seam line of one side,
but pointing this direction,
so it was like this.
And then once I sewed
the zipper in,
it went like that.
And so it was perfect
and really easy to do, actually.
I thought it was going to be
a lot more finicky,
but it was super easy,
and I love how it turned out.
For the black sash that I wore
around my waist,
I just used some Petersham ribbon.
Again, I'm not really sure
if I'm saying that right.
Self-taught, never really heard
that word said to me before,
so I'm going to say it
how I think it's saidâ€"
Petersham ribbon.
Well, that's it.
That was my wedding dress journey.
I just wanted to share that
with you
because I know a lot of people
have been wondering
what the dress looked like
and how I made it.
I really do hope that inspires you
to try your hand at making your own
formal wear.
It's usually not as daunting
as it may seem at first.
It's always a lot more difficult
in your mind
than it actually is to do.
Everything is a step-by-step
process.
As long as you do everything
in the correct order,
then you can make your own
wedding dress or formal wear.
Also, I'm really excited
to announce
that I'm going to be showing you
how to create a new costume
here on ThreadBanger every month,
so I really need suggestions
as to what kind of costumes
you would like to see.
You know, a costume doesn't
just have to be for Halloween.
There's all kinds of cosplay
events
and Comic-Con conventions
that people are always looking
for a good costume how-to.
So send in your ideas,
and also, don't forget to send in
pictures or videos
of your cozy, warm yarn project
for our outfit of the day video.
That will premiere at the end
of the month.
You can email pictures to
threadbangerstyle@gmail.com
or post videos as a video response
right here on YouTube.
All right, everyone,
I'll see you later.