I made my sis­ter’s dark green brides­maid (matron of hon­or) dress for my covid wed­ding. We used a beau­ti­ful dark green flo­ral fab­ric, which matched nice­ly with my wed­ding dress hand embroi­dery and my moth­er’s MOB jacket.

My sis­ter wrote her review and sto­ry of the dress on my Ana­gras­sia web­site. Below is an excerpt:

If get­ting mar­ried dur­ing a pan­dem­ic is not enough of a chal­lenge, design­ing a dress for a post-par­tum Maid of Hon­or (tech­ni­cal­ly a Matron) cer­tain­ly is. Then there was the issue of time. She had to design and con­struct the Moth­er of the Bride and flower girl dress­es, bowties for the nephews, and embroi­dered masks for the hon­ored guests. This is all in addi­tion to the dress of a life­time she was mak­ing for herself!

I under­stood the list of things to do was long and daunt­ing, and I decid­ed to find a back-up gown just in case her plans to make it were clear­ly going to end up killing her. The Ralph Lau­ren dress I ordered was quite love­ly, but the mate­ri­als were not the best and it made my baby body look like I was still very much preg­nant. Mary Grace issued an instant veto and knew that the only way to deal with a post-par­tum body is to give it spe­cial treat­ment and fit the dress to me, not vice ver­sa. Addi­tion­al­ly, as an artist at heart, Mary Grace balked at a design­er label still using poly­ester in its gowns.

You can read the rest of the blog post here: Matron of Hon­or Dress

You can pur­chase the Ana­gras­sia MOH gown here: Dark Green Brides­maid Dress

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I also made my sis­ter a dark green satin wool shawl to drape over the cus­tom made flo­ral gown.

When I fin­ished the gowns for my wed­ding, I loved Katie’s dress more than my wed­ding gown. I think I made her style for myself and my style for her brides­maid dress. I plan on wear­ing her green dress for future events 😉