Harriet and James planned to get married later in the year in November, however, due to the changes in COVID restrictions and uncertainty, they decided to bring their wedding forwards and downsize. This meant that some of her favourite people couldn’t be there including her sisters. Due to this Harriet decided to forgo bridesmaids to […]
Sarita fell in love with our gorgeous Chanel gown from our Heart of Havana Collection. She loved the cheekiness of a shorter gown and also wanted a really cool party dress. For the formal ceremony however, she thought she should have a full-length gown – we suggested the idea of having a separate underskirt to […]
Living overseas and planning a wedding is never easy! Luckily Lucy and Allistair had an incredible team of vendors who made their day so special even though New Zealand was shutting down due to the Covid pandemic. Unfortunately, due to the circumstances, they lost a bridesmaid, a groomsman and majority of the groom’s family due […]
Emilia came to us initially wanting us to create a different design from her final gown. Along the way her vision changed to a gown similar to our Audrey gown from our Modern Muse collection but with sleeves. Pairing her sleek look with the white flowers and light tones of the bridal party had the […]
Elese and Cullum’s wedding was set in the magnificent Hawkes Bay at Te Awa Winery. Elese’s gorgeous gown was a custom version of the Isabel gown from our Heart of Havana collection. A fitted nude based bodice with delicate 3D beaded flowers with hand beaded trim and a skirt of dreamy tulle. Their romance started […]
Their dreamy wedding was set in the dreamy location of Lake Hayes Queenstown in the beautiful setting of Stoneridge Estate. Emily fell in love with our Keiko gown from the Oriental affair collection. But loved the idea of delicate dimensional flower lace to be added to the bodice and having beading added to the skirt […]
The gown that we ended up creating for Alex wasn’t the first concept we started out with! We kept it fluid and worked on the things that we knew Alex did want, getting the fabric/silhouette /cut absolutely perfect and then selecting the lace so Alex could visualize it all together. The result flawless! Alex looked […]
Hannah came to us loving a combination of two of our gowns; both the Isabelle and Ivy from our Heart of Havana collection. The Ivy gown looked incredible on Hannah but she loved the fullness of the Isabelle skirt so we took the best of both and made it into her dreamy gown, which was […]
Harriet came to us wanting a custom gown. Knowing exactly the look she was after; it was easy to find the perfect beading to give her the desired effect she wanted. We used two different beadings that would work in harmony and incorporated them into both the fitted, structured bodice, and the dreamy layered tulle […]
Kimberly came to us wanting a custom gown. She had a clear vision of the silhouette but not sure of the detail or which lace would work the best for design. Between us we selected a few favorite laces and waited until we could try them against the near finished gown to decide which would […]
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