Dressing up a Victorian Bride

Well I thought it's another beautiful costume... and then it turned out it's your ACTUAL wedding gown! Haha amazing :)

I think it's so lovely that you actually got married in this outfit. All of it is very beautiful <3

Watching your videos has taught me how utterly ridiculous the concept of bodice-ripping romance novels are. There are way too many layers to deal with!

Watch g the change from wedding riding to evening reception all using the same basic dress with bits removed (train for riding) or altered (train bustled up) for dancing with a change of bodice from day to evening makes you realise that these dresses were much more practical than modern ones where many brides buy 2 outfits, wedding and evening reception/party, which then either go to charity shops or into a box for posterity. All that money spent and never worn again. Oh, and wax orange blossom was still in fashion in 1957 when my mother got married (in a dress eerily similar to the one worn fairly recently by Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge), her veil was held on by a circlet of waxed orange blossom which reappeared to be broken up and worn as a corsage by me when I got married in 1988. Some things are too good to change or go out of fashion. Beautiful dress, congratulations.

And you really got married in that dress! Wow! I am really amazed, and with all the costumes of your guests and all. I would love to get married like that also. Feel like I’ve watched a period movie. Very lovely!

How charming! This also shows how practical it can be to have the dress consisting of separate pieces. You can change some during the day - or mix and match after the wedding.

What I love most about this video is that she actually wore this on her wedding day. I like seeing this kind of dress back in use.

Thank you for sharing the pictures of your wedding, you make a very handsome couple.

That was fascinating and such a beautiful dress. My grandmother married in the late 1890s and she told me her dress was a brown skirt, cream blouse and brown jacket. After the wedding, it was her good dress.

I love that the bridal dress was worn after the wedding. Much more practical than today's just on the wedding day.

That was definitely one of the nicest theme weddings I’ve seen. The clothes we’re just beautiful! What lovely memories you must have of that day.

I had a Victorian wedding, and I designed my dress using various features of Victorian dresses. My dress was lavender and ivory, and I wanted it to look more like a Victorian-inspired ball gown instead of a traditional Victorian wedding dress. I had it made by a costume shop that makes the costumes for the major theater near my home because they were the only ones I could find who had the necessary expertise. The wedding gown in this video was so beautiful! I love its attention to Victorian structure and layering. I like that Victorian brides wore their wedding dresses to special occasions after the wedding. It’s always seemed sad to me that a modern bride typically wears her gown only once. Thank you for sharing the video! P.S. I went to your website, and it blew me away! So much talent and expertise!

Fascinating fact: the bridal gown was often also the gown the lady would be buried in. And she'd lay it out in the room next door when she was giving birth. Just in case.

this is literally the prettiest dress ever omg

Now THAT'S a wedding dress!

Victorian Bridal fashions were just beautiful. How fun that She and her new Husband a totally Victorian wedding. Everyone looked so elegant.

I really wish I hadn't been talked out of a full length veil. My wedding dress was mint green from an 1860s pattern. I had bought a veil, it was cheap and looked the part, but everyone else kept telling me it "would cover up the beauty of my dress" forgetting I could remove it for the reception; I guess I forgot that too but the pressure was real. I still have my dress and I've lost 65 lbs so it fits again, maybe I'll get the veil I want do a photoshoot with my husband 5 years later lol.

Thank you so much for sharing this video and the wedding photos. You {and hubby} look stunning, and I'd pick that wedding gown over anything they show on Say Yes to the Dress. Beautiful!

Love that this was your actual wedding dress, absolutely gorgeous

Oh my goodness, this was your actual wedding dress? How beautiful! Thank you so much for the video and for sharing some behind the scenes of it in use on your wedding day!