How exciting! Our dresses got a trip to Glasgow. The stunning historic venue Sloan’s in Glasgow offered us a venue for a photo shoot. We jumped at the opportunity to work with Fern Photography once more. And we are so happy with the result. Professional models and hair and makeup were engaged for the day. The Panels in the Grande Ballroom is the perfect Backdrop for my dresses. This lovely 2 piece consists of a jacket in guipure lace with sequins and our Avery skirt Below is the lovely Audrey dress with Rose jacket with 3D lace Here is the…
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Pale gold silk, 4-piece wedding dress
Pale gold silk, pearls, and sequinned, wedding dress We are so happy being asked to make this dress for Sheelagh. Because we are already so fond of her family as we had made her sister’s wedding dress a while ago. We really enjoyed catching up with her and the family again. It can be hard getting married soon after your sister. Anyone would like to put a personal stamp on their wedding day. Making it memorable and different, despite loving what your sister had chosen. 4-piece wedding dress Sheelagh went for a bespoke dress in a completely different style of…
Silk Chiffon dress with rose gold details for beautiful Autumn wedding
Silk chiffon contrasting with rose gold lace for Kimberley’s dress We made a bespoke wedding dress out of silk chiffon for the bride of this unusually colorful wedding. Kimberley didn’t change her mind at all during the process, because she was set in what style of dress she wanted from the moment she first met with us. Kimberley designed her future wedding dress when she was younger. Despite not being a teenager anymore, she was still interested in the same sort of design some years later. She brought the picture to us, and the dress we made ended up almost…
Styled Summer Shoot
Styled summer photoshoot in Newhall Estate When your industry friends ask if you want to some play time on a Styled Summer Photoshoot… we just have to say YES! The weather played with us, and for once gave us sunny Scottish Summer, and Duncan Holmes Photography had organised and a whole team. Three beautiful models, with quite different looks, were happy to model for us on the day. We also had hair and makeup lined up, beautiful work from Taylor Louise hair and Lynn Muir. We also had beautiful accessories from Mhairi Brunning to use on the shoot. All the dresses…
Gold Beaded lace Wedding Dress (long sleeves)
Gold Beaded Lace and Silk Wedding Dress Mary picked stunning beaded lace and a heavy gold silk satin was the fabric Mary chose for her bespoke wedding dress. Mary had specific ideas of what she wanted to wear: She wanted to enjoy a full day of celebrations, She wanted a dress fit for the celebrations in the garden The bride wanted a light colour, gold, champagne, sea pearl or similar and not least, the bride wanted to feel fabulous. We manage to cover all requirements. We constructed Mary’s dress in gold heavy slinky silk Satin from James Hare Silks, with…
Cotton tulle wedding dress with beaded lace details
Cotton tulle wedding dress with beaded lace details Such fun to meeting and making Jennifer’s Wedding dress in lace and tulle. We created a beauty in lace and tulle. Jennifer’s great friend had had her wedding dress made by us for her amazing snow elopement in Norway. She recommended the Freja experience to Jennifer. However, at the time of her engagement, Jennifer was based in Kenya. Jennifer still came all the way to Edinburgh to see us. Her friend came from Norway and her mum from Cornwall. So amazing they all headed to Edinburgh for the dress. They arrived a Monday…
Zibeline and Chantilly for beautiful Spring Wedding
Zibeline and Chantilly lace skirt, a beautiful combination for Ruth’s wedding dress Not many people nows of Zibeline fabric yet, so beautiful. It is very heavy and textured and makes a lovely contrast to the very fine and delicate Chantilly lace. Ruth chooses to have a bespoke wedding made by us. She decided that after meetings with discussions about the designs and materials. Ruth tried our collection dresses on and used them as inspiration. Ruth liked experimenting with skirt shapes and styles. The bride’s Mum and sister came to all the fittings. It was a really fun process, where everybody had…
Green Spring Silk Lace Wedding Dress
What an excitement to get asked to make this green silk lace wedding dress for Maxine. Green silk and lace Wedding Dress When she came to see me she pretty much had her whole wedding organised, apart from her dress. Maxine had a vision in green, but nothing set in stone. She wanted colour texture and not the usual wedding dress, she wanted to be able to dance and move and and feel fab and flatter her shape. So with all of that taken into account, we looked at a lot of materials and green colours and vintage style laces….
Simple Silk Crepe Wedding Dress and Jacket
Simple silk Crepe Wedding Dress and jacket was the brief from Sophie. At our first meeting Sophie had a really good idea what she would like, so together we developed the ideas and chose the silk crepe for the simple dress and jacket. The silk had a sand-washed finished, so it was so soft, it felt like a peach. Sophie then chose a lace for the back detail of the dress. Because the dress was so simple it was important with beautiful details such as little buttons down the back and on the sleeves. We knew she needed some kind…
Fishtail wedding dress in crepe and lace
Fishtail wedding dress was Kirsty’s chosen silhouette for her bespoke wedding dress. Kirsty had tried a lot of dresses on, but none was quite right for her. We put all the ideas she had together and then started to source the crepe and other materials to achieve the look she wanted. Heavy crepe fishtail wedding dress and a bespoke veil to match Heavy crepe became the fabric choice for the dress. Then she had a rich satin for a deep belt on the dress. We found a lovely embroidered tulle with gold accent colour and pearl and sequin embroidery. Her…
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