Gowns from Ratna Dolma

One of my best friend is now planning her wedding next year.  Of course, I'll help her in giving all my past experiences to her in choosing gowns, finding the ceremony place, planning the honeymoon etc.

In early May, I have taken her to visit Ratna Dolma.  This was the first time for her to visit the gown shop.  She've tried on some gowns on the day.  However, some gowns at the moment didn't fit her size and thus, she ask me to put on the gowns for her references.

The above 2 were my favorite too!  However, as the wedding gown didn't suit my wedding theme in Australia, I ever thought of trying that.  For the yellow color evening gown, I've tried before and of course, love that so much!!

Thanks Ellen for letting me to try her gowns again though I'm not the bride this time.  Ellen have told us and show us the pics that the gown of a famous poeple (keep secret) was from her shop!!  What a surprise that people of that rich will visit Ellen's shop rather than to ask for a famous designer to design for her.

Wedding Gown Fitting - Ratna Dolma

Today is the first time for me to see the final gown for our wedding. We did the first fitting tonight. Don't know why, may be we have changed the style a bit from the mockup, the size now is rather big for me. Ellen needed to alter the size for me. In addition, there are some details to be added such as the beading of the straps. They're plain originally and I request to have some beading on them. Not bad, I mean the gown! However, do not have a "wow" feeling! Maybe the style is too simple to say! The cutting is not perfect at this time, little bit disappointed. Hope that it's because of the size. Maybe better after alteration. Just wait and see!

As to give all of you a surprise, the photos of the gown will be posted after the wedding! ^.^

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 I think ball gown is just outdated.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.

Wedding Gown Style References

Just grabbed from the internet and magazines some wedding gown styles that I preferred.