Custom Made Wedding Dresses Melbourne

Brides of Melbourne… Congratulations on your Engagement!…..A little inspiration and imagination can make your dream wedding dress come true. We can make your custom wedding gown from $2,300 beautifully hand beaded.

The process is simple, you make a private bridal suite appointment, that’s not rushed, it’s relaxed, and you are the only bride.

The process of your Custom Made wedding gown

At our bridal Studio, we offer the opportunity to custom design your wedding dress, allowing you to express your individuality and personal style. We encourage you to share any inspirational pictures you’ve come across on social media platforms. These images serve as a starting point for us to understand your vision. While we can be inspired by them we cannot make exact copies, we will work closely with you to incorporate your unique bespoke touch into the design.

Our wedding gowns are meticulously handcrafted using the finest fabrics and adorned with exquisite hand beadwork. We take pride in our attention to detail and the high quality of our craftsmanship. Our goal is to make custom wedding dresses affordable, ensuring that you receive a beautifully made gown tailored especially for you. By combining your vision with our expertise, we will bring your dream dress to life, making your wedding day truly unforgettable.

Made to order, Tailored by hand, Uniquely yours.

The Design Of Your Custom Wedding Dress

At Lookbook Bride we value your input and are committed to listening attentively to your thoughts and ideas. We aim to ensure that you have a clear understanding of the gown-making process. We will guide you through each stage of the design, providing detailed explanations along the way. One crucial aspect we emphasize is the significance of the lace applique pin patterns. These patterns play a vital role in achieving a visually appealing result. Through our creativity and meticulous hand-stitching, we delicately place the lace appliques to enhance the overall aesthetic.

To further personalize your experience, we encourage you to share pictures and ideas that resonate with your style preferences. By aligning these inspirations with the theme of your wedding day, we can curate a gown that perfectly reflects your vision. Additionally, we prioritize understanding your unique body shape and silhouette to ensure an impeccable fit. Our goal is to create a gown that embraces every kind of bride, celebrating the diversity and individuality of each client.

Finishing Off Your Custom Wedding Dress

Finally to finish off the poetic beauty of the gown is highlighted in our hand beadwork, each bead individually threaded with the embellishment of pearls, crystals, or simple elegant beads adds details in different ways to give it a personal touch and high-end finish. Whether it is a smidge or covering the entire bodice with beading, the options are endless to customize the bridal dress.

The Cost Of Your Custom-made Wedding Gown

This will include our range of fabrics, cost may vary depending on your chosen style and fabric preferences, as well as the intricacy of hand beadwork involved. Our pricing guide typically ranges from $2300 to $3900. For particularly intricate designs, such as heavily beaded or intricately heavy laced gowns, the price can extend up to $4800. The final cost is determined by factors such as the fabric choice, type of lace, desired train length, and additional embellishments.

Lookbook Bride specializes in providing budget-friendly, affordable gown custom creations, distinguishing ourselves from the high-end couture designer labels that demand significant fees for their specialized services, These high-end couture labels often involve extensive processes like sketching, calico fitting, and up to 8 different fitting appointment and of course the Designer name brand.

Custom-Made Wedding Dresses Melbourne

It’s an exciting time to embark on the journey of finding your perfect wedding gown. This dress will be the centerpiece of your special day, capturing the attention of your guests and, most importantly, your future spouse. Every bride dreams of looking absolutely stunning on her wedding day.

Let’s unleash your creativity and transform your ideas into a breathtaking wedding dress that is uniquely yours. Our team specializes in designing inspired gowns that are exquisitely crafted.  Achieve the wedding dress of your dreams. Ensuring you get the luxurious look you desire without compromising your budget.

Let’s get creative, pull all your ideas together, and Let Lookbook Bride design your custom make your wedding dress.

The Gowns In Making Process

To custom-make your wedding dress it will take 14 to 22 weeks to be completed each stage of the gown. Each stage takes time and craftsmanship, from design to Patten cut, fabric cut, and then sew work.

Below you will see gowns in the workroom, as hand applique up to 10 different laces that have been laser cut are hand placed by hundreds of pins, ready to be hand-stitched and finished off with weeks for bead-work.

Creative Process – A Guide To How We Make Your Gown

• STAGE 1 – Gown brief for our workroom (takes 1 week) – 6  to 7 months before your wedding – This is called your “ORDER AND FIT” We take your measurements and go through the design of your gown.
• STAGE 2 – Fashion Design (takes 1 week) (allow 2 to 3 more weeks if custom design)
• STAGE 3 – Patten Cut (takes 1 week)
• STAGE 4 – Fabric Cut (takes 1 week) We can wait up to 6 weeks for fabrics to arrive
• STAGE 5 – Lace embroidery (takes 2 weeks)
• STAGE 6 – Sewing work (takes 2 weeks)
• STAGE 7 – Hand Appliques -lace applique pin Patten (takes 2 to 4 weeks)
• STAGE 8 – Hand beadwork (takes 3 to 4 weeks)
• STAGE 9 – Links and finals check (takes 1 week)
• STAGE 10 – Gown delivery around three to four weeks before the wedding date
• STAGE 11 – Alterations if needed – 1 / 2 weeks
• STAGE 12 – Gown handover 1 to 2 weeks before the wedding
• Total of 14 to 22 weeks

The gown-making process is very complex after the bride has paid her second deposit (after her “order and Fit” ) we then order the fabrics, which can take two to six weeks, while we are waiting for the fabrics to arrive, we are designing the gown, making a pattern for the gown, then when fabrics arrive we need to cut the pattern to those fabrics, and start some sew work…. The lace (on a roll) is then laser cut around each individual piece of lace, so we can then place it onto a mannequin in a “pin pattern” to your inspirational photos, we then hand sew-in, then it’s on to beadwork, and finally, links, bringing the elements together to towards the final weeks!!

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Hand Bead Work

A custom-made wedding gown is a truly magical experience, All our embellishment designs are created exclusively for your gown, inspired by architecture and patterns with the designer’s immense imagination

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