Mom's 1898 "Mother of the Bride" Dress is Complete!! Huzzah!!!

Hello all you lovely people out in blogger's land!  I hope you are having a marvelous Tuesday!  I am having a fabulous Tuesday!  Mom came over today for her final fitting and a photo shoot.  My kingdom for a decent camera though!!!!  I was in the process of getting her all ready to be photographed and she says, "Did you want me to bring my camera?"

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Le Sigh...My camera has a horrible habit of taking uber over exposed pics and there is nothing I can do about it but borrow Mom's camera.  Oh well!  You will get the gist of the dress in the pictures we did take.

I think she looks beyond marvelous in the over the top, fluffy, blue cotton candy confection!  I was giggling like a little school girl all the while I was dressing her!  I love the dreaminess of this outfit and it suits my Mama to a "T"!!!  The hat is also perfect atop her sweet head and goes great with her wig!  I do think she was a wee bit tired because she really behaved during the photo shoot.  It usually takes 2 times as long as it normally would because she acts like a 2 year old (making faces, being silly in general...hhahahahahahaha!!!)  So, when we did this shoot in record time, I was amazed!

I hope you enjoy these photos as much as I do!  I adore my Mama!  She is the epitome of grace, love, understanding, compassion, justice, silliness, fun, the best road trip companion after my Greg, in short, she is the best of all the good things and I am so happy she takes delight in dressing up with me!!

Without further ado...Here's my Mama!!

Affecting the inspiration fashion plate pose!

Fabulous Fashion Plate!!

Fun picmonkey collage!!!

Look!  She went ahead and put all five rows of lace ruffles on and they don't reach her arm pit!  AWESOME!

My Mom....I just love her!

Love how the lace goes up the back!  She did a fabulous job on the skirt!

We had to flip the skirt over because she needed the rest of the lace ruffle (about 22") to finish off the rest of the upper row!  Bwahahahaha!!!

Taking tea like a lady!

Miss Rosie Dog had to get in on the action!

Reading a wedding announcement from 1895.

These roses from my garden smell so awesome!  Wish I could bottle the fragrance!

Well, all that is left for this project is to await my silk chiffon to get here.  It's in the sorting center in LA, which means it will take 5 months to get to me.  But that's ok...I'll just make do and hem the chiffon that I have here.  I have to put lace around the perimeter of my veil and I shall be DONE!!!!!

Fabrics Used:

Bodice:  

Blue Floral Quilting Cotton

Poly Lace

Ivory Wedding Satin

White Wedding Satin

Cotton Lace

Skirt:

Blue Floral Quilting Cotton

Cotton Lace

Cotton Lining

Patterns Used:

Bodice:

Torso of Bodice:  Butterick 5970

Sleeves:  Butterick 3417 (Out of Print)

Skirt:

Butterick 3418 (Out of Print)

Have a blessed rest of your week my friends!

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