Choosing the Perfect Wedding Dress

Wedding Dresses: It’s probably the most important outfit you’ll ever buy, so how do you get the wedding dress just right? Relax, Siobhan Craven-Robins is on hand with some advice from Suzanne Neville.

Siobhan Robins: So now you’re ready to notify your guests of your big day but what about the dress? I went to see Suzanne Neville, bridal couture designer at her shop in Beauchamp Place in London. So where do you start when a bride comes to see you about the wedding dress? Suzanne Neville I like to talk to them, find out where they’re getting married, what kind of dress they had in their mind because they’ve often have this sort of idea or for they wanted to wear from very, very early age and just over the years fashions changed until they try dresses on. They haven’t but a clue, and by listening to them, talking to them I can get all the information and take it into my collection and just get a dress on them. Once I’ve got the dress on the bride I can then pretty much look at her figure and see what are the dresses I can actually put on to that bride to give us more inspiration and help prolong the way. Siobhan Robins: So dresses like this as you prefer an evening reception. They don’t have overtly bridal but still pretty and sophisticated. Suzanne Neville Yes, I mean with the dress like this though it’s got the low back as far as the trend that’s sassy when the actual service is taking place make still important that can be hook off for the evening while you just got a little bit of a paddle trend then to make it still interesting at the back but more wearable, no one is going to step on you in wearing the dress. Siobhan Robins: And then this sort dress where you’re going for quite a simple dress really, but what you can dress it up with so if somebody doesn’t want something too flauncy but still wants to make a statement with the dress. Is that a sort of things you’ve suggest? Suzanne Neville Yes, I mean I think the most important thing about any dress is the coat. It got to fit the bride and that’s why the design I can really work with the body. You double the necklines to hide the neckline. If your girl has got for the bust it’s going to make them look even bustier. It would be nice, so good if we nip the waist in a little bit and then with the soft day line skirts it makes a lot more comfortable if you wear that classic pear-shaped just to sort of smooth over your hips, and to give you a very, very slim look. Siobhan Robins: And it doesn’t have to be a dress. It can be a two-piece contour like with this one with fitted bodice which is so flattering. What’s the advantage of having the two-piece? Suzanne Neville The advantage of having the two-piece not so much that it looks like a bodice in the skirt, more that you can mix and match especially when you’re trying dress on as well. You can try one bodice on, Try the straight skirt or an A-line to give you different look, but based on the bodice which is still going to be the focal point of the dress. That’s what you’re going to say and the photographs. The two-pieces are easy to wear because you got the skirt and the way to the skirt on actually around your waist. And then the bodice can actually feel quite comfortable on top. You also got a very clean line with the two-pieces but there’s no real advantage I would say lookwise between the two-piece and the dress. Siobhan Robins: And I think that’s the wonderful thing about having a dress designed or a couture dress is it made especially for that person for that occasion of that time of their life, isn’t it? Suzanne Neville It is and no bride with the same figure. It was all different, all different shapes and sizes and what I like to do is really worked with that figure. If a girl got amazingly tiny, tiny waist I’ll pick up on it. Say for an instance if a tall girl who is lovely, lovely and slim but she has no hips. One of these lovely slinky by scoff dresses won’t have the impact because it’s not actually going to show her figure off to the best where if we actually gave her a lovely tiny waist cool fit, a slightly A-line skirt. It’s just going to make a whole shape so much better. Siobhan Robins: So would you say you can find the perfect dress for any figure because every bride is unhappy with some butt herself, isn’t she? Suzanne Neville She is but we make dresses for girls from a size eight to size 24, and each one of those brides just look absolutely wonderful because we work with their figure and holds what there. They’re happy with about themselves, and design the dress which works for their figure. What is that accessorizing a dress all to either a beading or embroidery to the dress? It can have another color. I think some hand painting or I think a rose, flowers are so in even for the hair just add a little delicate rose onto a dress is quite nice just keeping the whole thing very soft.