This year has been so many weddings amongst people my age…early 20s lol which has opened jewel to a whole new market!! So far we have made bridesmaid dresses for 4 weddings and to be honest I think I love the wedding market. Weddings have two benefits for jewel…1) we charge more for dresses as we use more expensive materials and it takes longer to make a dress and 2) we make more than one dress!! However the downside is brides are much more precise in what they want and so the dresses have to be perfect as they have a vision of what their bridal train should look like which puts pressure on us to make sure we design and make brilliant dresses and also although it has nothing to do with business…I feel like I should be getting married!! I had my wedding dresses designed from when I was 8, and now I’m 25 (almost 26) but no prospect of getting married anytime soon! As much as you want the perfect dresses for your day you need to have the perfect partner for life…so until then I’ll wait.
Last night I met a bride-to-be and her partner and she was absolutely beaming from ear to ear. She loved the bridesmaid dress so much she tried it on herself!!
On another note I know some fantastic guys who are also in this business of weddings and they make made to fit suits. MyTailoredSuit do great suits for both men and women, I can vouch as I got one made for myself a few months ago.
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