I love being sent inspiration photos and mood boards ahead of a design session- I want to make something that is special and particular to YOU and the more information I have about your likes and your wedding the more likely I am to be able to come up with ideas and designs that really suit you. I always think I’m doing my job right when I can’t imagine anyone else wearing your dress (there are some really gorgeous examples of this on my Real Brides page)
Some good things to include on your Pinterest/mood board are
- Photos of your venue or of similar venues how you hope to make yours look
- Photos from your wedding photographer that made you fall in love with their work
- Hair and makeup looks that you really love
- Costumes that you love from your favourite costume dramas
- Red carpet looks that you love
- Wedding dresses you like the style and shape of
- Any of my work that you felt drawn to- it’s always reassuring to see that you really like how my wedding dresses turn out!
Some things to be aware of with inspiration pictures-
- Pinterest photos are often really edited, pinned or taped to models and carefully posed. If you like a certain style of dress it can be helpful to track down photos of it in a real wedding on a real bride.
- Images that show a dress moving are great because they show the dress to its best advantage but they can obfuscate the finer details of the dress. Often dresses that are actually cut quite flat and plain move the best and produce these gorgeous images, so I may sketch something that looks quite plain in comparison.
- I am not a copy machine! With the best will in the world, without access to the same fabric (in the case of laces these are often exclusive to the designer) I’m never going to produce an exact copy. Mass produced dresses are made to a pattern in a workshop and reproduced over and over, so the look and finish is going to be one I can’t completely recreate. If you love a specific gown and want it exactly as it is I will always reccomend getting hold of it through a boutique or second hand.