HomeFashionThis Butterfly Wedding Dress Made My Heart Skip a Beat???and You Can Make It!
This Butterfly Wedding Dress Made My Heart Skip a Beat???and You Can Make It!
After I got married, pretty much everyone started designing butterfly-topped wedding dresses. Monique Lhullier did this one in 2010, then Elizabeth Fillmore and BHLDN respectively came out with the styles below.
It’s good that these dresses were created long after my wedding, because I really, really would have wanted one—probably the Monique—and a dress with that much detail work (all those itty-bitty wings!) would be majorly expensive. So naturally when I stumbled across this pic on Instagram, my heart skipped a beat.
LOVE!
And get this: Their designer made the dress and added all that embellishment (including the adorbs little collar necklace!) for around $100! I don’t recommend the average bride goes around stitching her own wedding dress. (Wedding planning is stressful enough!) But I got how-to information from the people at Cricut, and it seems it would be SUPER-easy to DIY the butterflies and attach them yourself. (Or work with a seamstress, if DIY isn’t your thing.) The butterflies on the dress above were made from paper, but if you wanted wearable bugs that wouldn’t tear, the [Cricut Explore](http://www.cricut.com/home/learn/machines/explore) (which was used to make the butterflies) can cut fabric and even leather. (You would spray the fabric with stiffener ahead of time so the butterflies wouldn’t be floppy.)
Designer Desiree Moss cut her 180 butterflies from about 20 pieces gold paper using the [Cricut Explore](http://www.cricut.com/home/learn/machines/explore) then used ModPodge to attach them to the bodice and hot glue to position the wings. She then glued 3D butterflies down the skirt, positioning some underneath the layers of tulle.
(If you were making b-flies for your wedding dress, like I said, I’d stitch them on or hire a seamstress to do it.)
To make the necklace, Desiree cut the base using the Cricut Explore and wool felt, then glued a ribbon on either side and embellished it with beads “to make it look glitzy.” *That* I think even a bride with limited DIY skills could handle. It would be super-cute to make matching necklaces for your bridesmaids!
And instead of stitching the dress yourself, you could start with a simple dress—[like this Wtoo bridesmaid dress](http://wtoo.com/Product/WtooDresses/650I/)—which would only set you back a couple hundred dollars.
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Would you DIY any part of your wedding dress? Or are you leaving that to the pros?
