The Impossible, Realized
Inspirations
Every gown begins with a story. Here are some of our favorites—
the dreams our brides brought us, and the magic we made together.
Custom Veil
Written in the Stars
A veil that captured the night sky of their engagement
The Request
"She came to us with a photograph of the night sky—the exact moment he proposed under the stars in Joshua Tree. She wanted to walk down the aisle beneath that same sky."
The Creation
Working with astronomers and our master embroiderers, we mapped the precise constellation positions from that September evening. Each star was hand-beaded in varying sizes of Swarovski crystals and freshwater pearls, placed at exact coordinates. The brightest stars—Vega, Altair, Deneb—were marked with larger, more brilliant stones. The Milky Way was suggested through a delicate scatter of seed beads that caught the light like cosmic dust.
The veil contained 2,847 hand-placed crystals representing the visible stars from their exact coordinates at 9:47 PM on September 14th.
Functional Couture
Love Without Limits
A couture gown designed for a nursing mother
The Request
"She was still nursing her eight-month-old daughter and refused to choose between breastfeeding and her dream wedding gown. Every designer she'd visited said it wasn't possible—not with the silhouette she wanted."
The Creation
We engineered hidden nursing access into a structured sweetheart bodice, creating discrete panels that released with a single hand while maintaining the gown's architecture. The interior was lined with the softest organic cotton for baby's comfort. The boning was repositioned to support the silhouette while allowing the necessary flexibility. From the outside, it was pure bridal fantasy. From the inside, it was designed by a mother, for a mother.
She nursed her daughter three times on her wedding day—including once during the reception—without anyone noticing. The gown performed flawlessly.
Hand-Painted Silk
Impressions of Love
A gown that blooms like Monet's garden
The Request
"They met at the Musée de l'Orangerie, standing before Monet's Water Lilies. She didn't want a white dress. She wanted to wear his garden—the soft pinks, the dreaming blues, the living greens. She wanted to be a painting."
The Creation
We began with 15 yards of silk organza and a team of textile artists trained in watercolor techniques. Over six weeks, they hand-painted each panel using the same pigment ratios Monet favored, building up translucent layers that shifted with movement and light. The colors were concentrated at the hem and softened as they rose, like flowers emerging from water. French lace appliqués were dyed to match and scattered across the bodice like fallen petals.
The dress used 47 different custom-mixed colors, applied in over 200 hours of hand-painting. In photographs, it seems to glow from within.
Heirloom Transformation
Three Generations
A grandmother's gown reborn for a modern bride
The Request
"Her grandmother's 1952 wedding gown had survived decades in an attic, yellowed and fragile. The bride wanted to honor her grandmother—who had passed the year before—by incorporating the vintage lace into something she could actually wear."
The Creation
We carefully deconstructed the original gown, preserving every salvageable piece of the handmade Alençon lace. The delicate fragments were cleaned, restored, and reimagined as a modern column gown with a detachable overskirt. The grandmother's original buttons—hand-carved mother of pearl—became the closure of the new bodice. We preserved a section of the original silk to be carried as a handkerchief, and framed another piece for the bride to keep.
Hidden inside the bodice, we embroidered a small message in the grandmother's handwriting, traced from her original love letters: 'Forever and always, my darling.'
Convertible Design
One Dress, Two Ceremonies
A transforming gown for a multicultural celebration
The Request
"She needed a gown that could honor both her Korean and Irish heritage—a traditional Western ceremony in the morning, and a Korean pyebaek in the evening. Two separate dresses felt wrong. She wanted one gown that could transform."
The Creation
We created a architectural white silk gown with a detachable cathedral train for the Western ceremony. Hidden connections allowed the skirt panels to reconfigure into a modernized hanbok silhouette. The bodice featured removable sleeves that transformed from fitted Western styling to the flowing lines of traditional Korean dress. Hand-embroidered elements incorporated both Celtic knotwork and Korean bojagi patchwork patterns in complementary positions.
The transformation between styles took under five minutes with the help of two attendants. Both grandmothers wept seeing their traditions honored in a single, unified vision.