Modest Wedding Dress Patterns

It's that special time in a woman's life where she finds herself nervous, yet excited about the big day in her life. The air is permeated with wedding fever, with so many things to do, sending out the wedding invitations, picking out the perfect giveaways, booking the venue, selecting the perfect caterers and rehearsing for the wedding.

Finally the best part for any woman - looking for the wedding dress and deciding the colors and designs for the bridesmaids' dresses. Girls have fantasized about what that dress will like when that day finally arrives to walk down the aisle, dreaming about being shrouded in the perfect white dress.

There are so many wedding coutour magazines and websites with designs that are sure to leave you baffled. You might spot a design that you really want to go with and suddenly spot a better one. You're indecisiveness will leave you switching between patterns - very exhausting task.

If you have a particular design in mind, spread out an array of patterns relevant to your design, compare styles and work done on the dresses, consider mixing things up to have a feature from each dress, combined into one. Compare your design with our suggestions, which should easily help you decide the perfect kind of dress to opt for.

This may seem like a common choice of material but you need to look past the stereotypical designs and come up with something unique. While picking out lace, familiarize yourself with the different kinds of lace available to stitch onto the dress and the ones youcan opt for. Here are a few types of laces that are popularly used on wedding gowns 

Lace is a thin, see-through material, which can be either stitched over the top of a tube dress, to cover the chest, shoulders and back area, or it can cover the entire dress's length to give it a heavier facade. It can look very stylish, and can really bring out the dress's design. It can go over any material, the best one being stiff satin.

It gives the gown a princess-like look if you experiment with heavy work and intricate detailing. The lacy material works best when it ends at your elbows or in full sleeves with it tapering into an inverted pyramid or ending around your wrists. Make sure the lace is tight against your skin, you wouldn't want it puffing up in places, ruining the whole look.

Layering a bridal gown means letting different sized length materials fall against the dress right till the end of it. This works best for a dress that is mushroom-shaped (puffy hem), because the layers show better when the dress is more spread out. These layers can be satin folds, which go around the dress in a wave-like fashion vertically.

Go easy on the folds to avoid it looking too cluttered, consult a good book and look out for layering designs that are neat and not overly done to make it look old-fashioned. It can look like the dress is weighing you down if the folds aren't stitched properly.

Satin works best for any wedding dress design, with that nice shimmery gleam that bounces off the material. In modest wedding dress patterns, this look will really bring out a bride's dress design. The tube dress can either be placed over a bracket to give it that mushroom bulge, or it can fall straight down, gathering around your feet.

The material should ideally be folded and stitched around the waist area to give it more flow rather than just sitting straight against your body. You can have a knee-length dress to show off a pair of classic white stilettos.

You can split up your waist area in two parts - pick out a satin black/pastel colored bow that ties in at the end in a neat bow tie for a knee-length pattern only, for a long dress that isn't in a mushroom bulge design, you can use this idea. 

Remember, lengths have to complement each other. If you're going with a knee-length dress, a short wedding veil that ends midway behind your back works well and vice verse. For the tube dress, the little overcoat is long-sleeved with intricate work done or can be plain with lapels. Don't include buttons on the overcoat to show off that tube-topped dress.

A halter dress design works well for a short as well as long length dresses, provided it isn't fitted over a puffy hem. It can circle around your neck with a nice lacy finish. Go easy on the work done on the front of the halter, if your overcoat is done with heavy design work.

Modest wedding dresses are a good choice in getting ready-made, but starting from scratch seems more fun because you get to experiment with your own ideas.