5 viral fiancees who recycled their mother’s wedding dress

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Patricia, a recycled wedding dress that her mother wore 30 years ago

Her trusted dressmaker, Ruslana, was in charge of adapting this dress that Basaldúa had created for his mother in 1994. It was a dress made of wild natural silkivory color, with a flattering drape in the waist area and a voluminous train. “The dress had been in a box for 30 years and had not been ironed… you have to use a lot of imagination at the beginning of the process to look spectacular in it. I looked at photos of my mother at her wedding and it inspired me,” the bride told us.

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The front neckline had to be lowered so that her clavicle could be seen more, the back was slightly lowered, the rear opening of the skirt was widened to show off the shoes and the sleeves were worked on to keep the original ones but adapt them to Patricia’s body, somewhat larger than her of his mother. The biggest challenge was do detachable big tail “so that I could wear it during the ceremony and then remove it for greater comfort. To achieve this, my dressmaker designed a system with 20 hooks that were carefully sewn so that the train could be easily put on and taken off,” she said.

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Once all the adaptations were made, Patri asked her dressmaker to include a detail on the inside of the dress: the initials and wedding date of your parents and then hers and Ryan’s, her husband, with their day. “It was my way of honoring my mother for giving me the dress and immortalizing the sentimental value of having been part of both weddings.”

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Begoña reused some parts of her mother’s design

A simple dressthat would not attract excessive attention if it were hanging in his closet and that integrated some parts of the design with which his mother married. With these two premises, Begoña arrived at the atelier of Rachel Lopez.

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The bride told us that, when she arrived at the atelier, she had a very simple idea of ​​the dress. Also that she had fallen in love with a bambula, a fabric full of movement that worked wonderfully with wild silk. of his mother’s dress. “Raquel took that kind of design and added everything that made it special. The fabric, the bow that served as a train and that allowed me to be comfortable and all the details that combined my mother’s dress (the overshirt) and the new dress, mine,” she points out. The result was wonderful.

Pilar always dreamed of wearing the same dress as her mother

“I have photos from 2017 trying on the dress I would wear”confesses Pilar from Córdoba. At that time, she still did not know who her husband, Antonio, would be, but she was clear that she wanted to wear the same design from the Navarro sisters with which her mother said ‘I do’ in the 90s. In this sense, He wanted to preserve the original structure, instead of making some modifications to adapt it to our times.

The straight-cut dress with boat neck features beautiful trimmings embroidery like a sashas well as in the short sleeves, completed with sleeves that end in a peak. Being taller than her mother, the length of the skirt ended just above the ankle, giving way to a queue that stretched for four meters in its path. Although she was advised to remove it for convenience, her desire to pay tribute to her parents was stronger. She bought a second dress for the party so that this first dress would remain intact.

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Given the age of the garment, they had to take it to the dry cleaners to remove those yellow stains that appear over time. In the process, they realized that there were some holes in the tail, typical of having been burned by something, and they immediately thought of a solution: embroider on an organza. the date and initials of the two couples who got married in this dress, as well as the phrase ‘always with us’ in memory of Pilar’s fatherwho died five months before the wedding.

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Rocío covered her grandmothers’ wedding dresses

After the first visit to Marcela Mansergas’ workshop and seeing one of the sketches that the dressmaker had drawn (in the end it would be the one that would win) for her wedding dressRocío headed to her grandmother Macu’s family home, located in Alcoy, in search of inspiration. “I found, among other relics, her wedding dress and a quilt from her mother, my great-grandmother Chita. The quilt was very similar to the fabric that Marcela had taught me, so when I returned to Benicasim, together with my mother and my aunt we tried recreate the design that had been presented to us using these pieces. But it didn’t end there… The most powerful thing was that, when I tried on my other grandmother’s dress, Ampa, that same week, we realized something: My grandmothers got married in Alcoy in 1964 and wore the same design on their wedding day.“.

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Rocío contacted the designer because she wanted to follow the sketch that she had initially proposed with other fabrics, but using these family heirlooms that for her had great sentimental value.

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“Without forgetting to respect its original shape, we separated the cape from the rest of the dress (since the main pattern was the same piece). In order to remake the body we had to extract the original fabric from the tail, so it was a little shorter than in the first version too. We modify the sleeves creating French and flared onesand, as for the waist part, we sewed the quilt to the outfit itself, trying to respect at all times the curve so representative of the chest (from where the skirt originates). AND Voilà, flashback to sixties“, the bride told us.

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Inés and her jacket with special meaning

Since she began to prepare her marriage with her partner, Martín, this Murcian woman has been thinking about wearing your mother’s wedding dress on your big dayalthough in the end she turned to designer Inés Lacasa to create a new design taking advantage of very recognizable elements of that bridal look. “Since I was little I looked at the photo album of my parents’ wedding and it seemed to me that my mother was radiant. I am lucky to be able to have beautiful clothes, accessories and accessories from her, I have always liked her style. I was excited about the idea of ​​wearing her dress, the question was how” she told us. For her, it was a priority to preserve the original pieces, since it is an exclusive Haute Couture design with hand-embroidered rhinestones from the 80s, “a real gem,” as she herself defines it.

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If the process of creating a wedding dress is always something precious and emotional, when the design has such a beautiful personal story, the feelings are multiplied by a thousand. How could it not be otherwise, Inés’s mother was very present along this pathand, in fact, she was the one who insisted that she have her own dress and not wear hers as is. Once the concept was defined, Inés Lacasa made several sketches and modifications.

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The result was a removable look starring a white satin dress with a high waist, V-neckline, draped silk chiffon bodice with rhomboidal shapes and fine rhinestone strips that were extended as straps, as well as a buttoned closure lined with the same fabric. On him, he carried a light coat made from the fabric of his mother’s dressdecorated with delicate motifs of paisley with small embroidered crystals. The dress was not Inés’s only tribute to her mother, but He also wanted to wear some of her earrings. This is an elongated oval-shaped pair in white gold and jewelry boxes. In addition, the cloak that she wore as a veil also has a very special story: “When she found out that she was pregnant with me back in 1989, she wanted to give me a gift, the cloak. It was very exciting when I told her I wanted to wear it on my wedding day. This hand embroidered in natural silk with floral designfinished in waves 4 meters long.”