Rip Off the Sleeves and Make it One Of a Kind

This is the first of four posts this week featuring my brother, Stephen's wedding at the end of April...finally!  I had the pleasure of helping with a lot of the wedding details.  In this post, you can see the dress my new sister-in-law, Camille, wore.  She looked so beautiful, and Stephen looked so in-love.  It was a vintage dress from the 1970's, a Gunne Sax style dress, that we completely redesigned with the help of a seamstress.  It was the third dress she tried on from my shop and like a scene out of a movie, we ripped the sleeves off right there and we knew it was the one! We then had a seamstress reconstruct the bodice to be one shouldered, isn't it dreamy? 

 

Photos by Dansky Photography

It's a Beautiful Day...

Another kind customer sent these photos of her wedding day in South Africa.  Magdelena looks beautiful in her 1960's wedding dress with all over tiny pin tucks and crocheted lace. Her floral wreath headpiece is really great too!  Selling wedding dresses brings me a unique joy.  I love that I was able to provide the MOST important thing on someone's wedding day...no seriously, what you wear on your wedding day is very important.  It is so neat that modern brides want to wear something with history for their special day.  Not to mention, it is ridiculously cheaper to buy a vintage wedding dress! 

I just added two Gunne Sax wedding dresses to the shop and I have a beautiful wedding dress from 1915 and a long tulle wedding gown from the 1950's coming soon!

 

Local customer wears Salvage Life for her Vow Renewal Ceremony

Nothing makes me happier than a satisfied customer, actually there is one thing...a satisfied customer that sends photos!

Local customer, Shannon Garcia scheduled an appointment a few months ago to try on a 1970's vintage wedding dress she saw in our online shop. She was planning to renew her vows and she wanted an earthy, bohemian dress. This one was a PERFECT fit, it didn't even need alterations. She was kind enough to send me photos and she looks absolutely beautiful in this dress. Congrats to her and her hubby, wishing them many more years of happiness!

If you have photos of you wearing your Salvage Life finds, please send them to trend-fashion-today@gmail.com, we'd love to feature you!






Photos taken by Shannon Mills.