As I watched Kelsey mak­ing sure every guest at her wed­ding was hav­ing a good time, well fed, and com­fort­able, I couldn’t help but smile and rem­i­nisce. Some things nev­er change.

After my first year of col­lege at a small pri­vate uni­ver­si­ty in my home­town, I trans­ferred to the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan. I was very ner­vous that I wouldn’t be able to find my place at such a large and com­pet­i­tive uni­ver­si­ty. Yet, in my very first class at Michi­gan (which was a small sem­i­nar that I had no busi­ness being in…must have been fate), I met Kelsey and Michi­gan felt less intimidating.

Kelsey, being her kind and friend­ly self, came right up to me and our friend­ship began. We had so much in com­mon. We were both ath­letes, Mid­west girls, and dri­ven. Kelsey’s friends, team­mates and fam­i­ly quick­ly became my friends (and even room­mates) at Michigan!

So when Kelsey asked me to make her wed­ding rehearsal dress, I was more than hap­py and thrilled to oblige! It was per­fect to do this for her because she was one of my very first sup­port­ers and wrist­let owners!

After look­ing over designs and fab­rics, Kelsey and I came up with this dress design.

The dress is based off of Burdastyle’s Design­er Pat­ter 1/2014 #124. I made some adjust­ments to the bodice and fit of the dress.

I used ivory alen­con flo­ral lace and nude 100% silk jer­sey for the bodice and cham­pagne silk/wool and silk charmeuse for the skirt.

I absolute­ly LOVED the bodice and upper skirt!!

Orig­i­nal­ly, all the skirt pan­els were silk/wool.

But unfor­tu­nate­ly, the silk/wool pan­els flared out and (accord­ing to my sis­ters) the skirt looked very space age with the silk wool bot­tom half.

So ulti­mate­ly, I switched out the silk/wool with a cham­pagne silk charmeuse I found in my fab­ric stash. If I had more time, I would have found a dif­fer­ent mate­r­i­al for the low­er half of the skirt! (I would’ve found a stiffer mate­r­i­al that did­n’t wrin­kle easily.)

KELSEY’S REVIEW:

“Ana­gras­sia dress­es are one-of-a-kind! If you are want­i­ng a unique dress that will fit your every curve and flat­ter your body—no mat­ter the shape—Anagrassia is exact­ly what you need. Mary Grace will sketch a design based on your pref­er­ence, and her artis­tic per­spec­tive, and she will even involve you in the selec­tion of the fab­ric if you so desire. Her cloth­ing is stun­ning, classy, chic, and fun all at the same time. She made my rehearsal dress for the night before my wed­ding. It was nice to have a unique vari­a­tion oth­er than all white. I received so many com­pli­ments and felt like a bride!”

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