It is the key and most anticipated piece of the wedding, because although the bride and groom design and dream of other details (such as the bridal decoration, accessories, the menu prepared by the catering wave big day music), there are many who await the best kept secret. We talk about wedding dressthe element with which the protagonist of the big day seeks to differentiate herself and dazzle everyone. Achieving a result with which the bride feels truly comfortable and unique is a challenge for designers and brands that work in the bridal universe.
However, in recent years, a striking trend has prevailed, to make these garments something much more special: the personalization. A personalization that does not only involve designing a custom-made piece, but increasingly involves the incorporation of details that are closely linked to the tastes or history of the bride, through embroidery, applications and games of fabrics and textures. A proposal that captures attention with just a glance and that can be translated into creations of very different styles.
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Through the play of textures
A fabric and the way it is arranged can change everything. Perhaps that is why designers who are experts in creating custom wedding dresses take the opportunity to demonstrate all their knowledge using different techniques to treat their fabrics. In this matter, the designer Castellar Granados She is an expert and in pieces like this one, created for a newlywed named MarÃa, you can distinguish her mastery with materials, playing with folds that form a kind of pleat, finished with small ruffles and different textures. A proposal with a column silhouette, hip cut and airy sleeves, which is most inspiring.
© @castellargranados. Photo: @aortizphoto28
With applications or transforming fabrics
Although there are many creative ideas that can be applied in the making of a wedding dress, sculptural-inspired applications are rarely used. It is a different format to surprise in a bridal look and we have seen it in this bride from Isabel Nunez. In its look, not only is the pleating and braiding of the fabric applied, but different gold details have also been sewn. This is how the renowned house explains it, online, in reference to this asymmetrical piece that has garnered many compliments: “minimalpure and sensual: Marina’s dress”.
© @inunezdesign. Photo: @dosmasenlamesa
© @inunezdesign. Photo: @dosmasenlamesa38
Through color embroidery
An original touch is what brides who want to add some color to their dress are looking for. It is true that accessories allow you to add an unexpected, vibrant detail that escapes the bridal white to the style, but cheerful embroidery is much less popular, but also more unique. In the work of the Galician designer Sara Lage We find some of the same, always applied in the right measure and using manual labor. On her social networks, she tells the story of the proposal that is located along these lines: “a wedding in Extremadura. A dress that tells a story. Hers, that of her family, that of her land. A dress that is a wink to her roots, to her life. In each of its stages. Where every detail means something. A dress, hers. A pleasure to make pieces like this… full of sensitivity, love and personality!”
© @sara__lage. Photo: @angeloramosphotos48
Playing zigzag
One of the most repeated resources among brides of 2024 is to arrange different fabrics and techniques in different parts of the wedding dress, forming contrasts that are elegant as well as novel. It is this zigzag game that applies Isabel Nunez in Elena’s bridal design, in which both the front and the back (with an old brooch) enjoy a lot of weight. An elegant proposal that provides that personalized note that anyone looking for who goes to a atelier in our country. The creator has applied all her know-how in this piece, as she herself explained to her legion of followers online: “combining silk-linen, rustic organza, bambula, hand thread embroidery and honeycomb.”
© @inunezdesign. Photo: @plata.forma_
© @inunezdesign. Photo: @plata.forma_58
With an unexpected fabric
It took a matter of hours for Isabel’s wedding in Valencia to go viral, since her photographer, Diego de Rando, uploaded it to his social networks just a few days ago. The bride, with a look of straps, a train, a matching choker, gloves and flowers in her hair, put herself in the hands of the famous creator Castellar Granados. The highlight of her choice, in addition to some delicate accessories, is the fabric of the piece, embossed and arranged asymmetrically. And it is its design that shows us that an unusual fabric, well chosen, can result in a style with those notes of personalization, little seen, that goes around the internet.
© @derando_studio_wedding68
With references vintage
Sometimes, wedding dresses can be the best canvases with which to take a trip to the past. Vintage inspiration serves as a reference for many current brides, who find in this type of proposals (usually custom-made) an opportunity to recover ancestral techniques and aesthetics and a beautiful escape from outdated trends, in favor of a look full of meaning and very staff. This is the case of Refu, who trusted the Andalusian firm Teresa Baena for this design with large doses of craftsmanship and references to the trousseaus of yesteryear. “The romantic linen dress worked with delicate lace and vintage-inspired embroidery, by our bride, Refu,” the designer wrote on her social networks about this piece.
© @teresabaenacom. Photo: @palogoca
© @teresabaenacom. Photo: @palogoca78
Betting on metallic
Not all embroidery on the wedding dress necessarily has to be floral or botanical. In reality, the range of options can be much wider and that is why other options abound, such as incorporating stars and cosmic elements into the design, with metallic finishes. It is an idea that triumphs on social networks and that we find in profiles like By Luneville, with Cayetana Torres Souviron in front, an expert in the Luneville embroidery technique, a haute couture work that she learned at the Lesage School in Paris and whose origin dates back to the 19th century. This embroidery with rhinestones is one of the most special options that a bride looking for a different result can use. In the image above, this option on a design by Claudia Llagostera.
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Using the layering
For her wedding in Huelva, Asunción trusted the team of Carmen Mazaone of the most successful Spanish houses on social networks. The brand designed a simple wedding dress for her, but with subtle details that made it truly special. Betting on minimalism with modern notes, the house incorporated different fabrics, to obtain two textures (one in the upper part of the piece and another in the skirt) that could be labeled as layeringthe trend that relies on superimpositions and that arrived in the bridal universe about three years ago. A different proposal that can be declined in many different ways to not obtain a common design, but a very personalized one.
© Lola and her photo booth
© Lola and her photo booth