Wedding Gown for Wedding Ceremony (Ratna Dolma)

Just back dated the process of how I chose for the wedding gown in Jan 07.

As our wedding ceremony will be held in Sydney, we decided to tailor-made a wedding gown in HK instead of rent for one.

I do love simple style wedding gown with A-line cutting. I think ball gown is just outdated. In addition, as it will be an outdoor wedding, I think it's no need to have much beading. Cutting is my major concern. In addition to A-line, Sunny have a special request. He said my chest is the most sexy area. He think V-shape neck line with spaghetti straps will suit me most! Yep, I do love deep V neck line and I think it's so sexy. I tried to find reference photos and a suitable shop to tailor made that.

After reviewing some comments from the forum of ESD Wedding, I sorted out 2 shops in Central. One is TinaEllen and the other is Ratna Dolma. Sunny said he knows Tina from TinaEllen as she's the dresser in TVB before. So, I made the appointment for the two shops on 6 Jan 07. I think the gown could be ready before March and I can use the gown for engagement photos shooting.

We stopped at Ratna Dolma first. The owner of this shop is Ellen. She's a woman in her middle age around 4x. She's so nice and can show her profession in tailoring. I think she have pretty much experience. Though she will not have sketches before making the gown, she will have a mock up first for you to try the size and cutting. Sunny think that as we want to tailor made the gown, actually we didn't need to walk around different shop. If Ellen is good at tailoring, we can just told her our needs and figure out how to make the gown. So, he suggested to turn down TinaEllen and spend more time with Ellen of RD.
Yes, he was right. We then decided to tailor made our gown in RD.

Later on, I have think carefully that if we use the gown also in E-photos shooting, as we would have our doggies with us, I'm afraid they will make the gown to have stains. Thus, I think I better bought another cheaper gown for E-photos shooting. I then called Ellen and ask her not to hurry as I can wait until later this year. Ellen said it is fine for her and she ask me to fit again on July or August.

The above is the first mock up of my wedding gown. And I've tried an evening gown at RD. That EG is so perfect with lots of beading. That EG make us feel that RD have good tailoring. That reinforce us to make the gown in RD.