Bridal Over Skirt Wedding Dresses
An bridal over skirt is worn to drastically change your bridal dress to stun and amaze. It can sometimes be a solution when you love two different styles and can’t choose between them. An over skirt is ideally created in a lightweight, but stiff fabric such as organza, gazaar, or a combination of soft and stiff tulle, so that it can keep volume, but not leave you with a crushed under dress for the big reveal.
Changing The Silhouette Of A Wedding Dress
These brides changed their bridal style from romantic and sweeping ball gowns to slim silk dresses by wearing light layers of organza worn around the waist, before discarding for the big reveal. This is a great way to feel the drama of a big skirt, but being abble to feel relaxed and navigate the dance floor with ease later on.
Changing The Colour Of Your Dress
Ali couldn’t decide which colour to choose for her wedding dress, her heart was with red, but golden felt more bridal - so we chose both with a layered silk chiffon skirt. A leg split allowed for all layered colours to be seen with the first look, and were revealed more dramatically throughout the day. The silhouette stayed the same, but the colour change created the impact.
Changing the length of the wedding dress
These brides wanted to change the length of their wedding dresses, but it was achieved in slightly different ways - one has a removable overskirt and one has a removable underskirt, to theatrically change from a voluminous textured ballgown to short and sweet.
Skirts That Look Like Over Skirts (but they’re not).
These brides loved the look of the over skirt, but were not interested to remove the over skirt during the day - so the were sewn together. This is a technical (from the makers point of view) bonus because of the volume, fabrics and design because I could add more structure to the skirts to make they keep volume without having to worry about creasing or damaging the dress underneath.
wearing a Pannier Cage
This dress features hip panniers which is like a metal cage framework, to create volume on the hips without stuffing it with layers of gathered tulle. It’s mostly seen in period clothing around 1700’s Europe. This cage, while lightweight and comfortable to wear, relies on being strapped to the body to stop the whole thing falling out of shape.
This over skirt is made from a beautiful silk ziberline, a fabric that catches the light so beautifully. The underskirt is made from flesh coloured tulle, layered so that it’s not sheer, and embroidered with a symettrical guipure lace design with a split on the front seam. The bride loved the look of the overskirt, but didn’t love the look of an all-lace dress. The under and over skirt were stitched together as one to keep the two in perfect position. (The brides big reveal was a jumpsuit worn to the after party).