Eugenia, a well known fashion designer, serving and dressing women of Santa Clarita since 1980, recommends keeping in mind 10 important points when selecting your wedding gown.
1. Check your closet and decide what style you feel more comfortable in. Eugenia will work with you to create a style for your wedding gown with that comfort in mind.
2. Check magazines and select styles you like. Eugenia can combine a design between two or three styles you select with details that will benefit your figure.
3. Select styles according to the time and style of your wedding. Summer, winter, morning, evening, Victorian, ‘20s or ‘50s, Renaissance or any other theme.
4. Visit the bridal salon with a trusted companion, not with a crowd. If you do not want to be confused and frustrated, don’t bring a crowd with you. You will end up wearing a gown that everyone else likes, not what you like.
5. Compare three options:
* Off-the-rack. This dress may have been tried on several times. Although you might get some discount, you may have to take it to the cleaners. This would be an option for a quick, running to Las Vegas-type wedding.
* To be ordered. When the gown arrives, you might need alterations, an extra fee will apply, and the price will depend on what needs to be done.
* Custom made. This is always the best way to go. The gown made for you, the way you want, to your measurements and your specifications and the fee is set at the time of the order.
6. Order your gown, accessories and headpiece six to ten months before the wedding date.
7. Select bridesmaids, mothers and flower girls dresses and accessories as well as the tuxedos at the same place you order your gown, that way it can all be coordinated well together.
8. Have your fitting one month before the wedding. If you plan to be on a diet, wait until one month before the wedding date for your final fitting, that way the gown will not suffer adjustment over adjustment and will look fresh on the wedding day.
9. Have everything ready for your fitting. If you have your own accessories, bring them to the fitting: shoes, undergarments and, if possible, wear the hairstyle you will wear on the wedding day. Then you will have an idea how it will all look together.
10. On the last fitting, bring your attendant so she learns what to do to help you with your dress.
Most important: Select the groom at least one year before the wedding.
For more information, appointments, or house calls, please call Eugenia at Eugenia’s Designs at 661-298-2442.