Elements of Style

Today I looked at a space. It was pretty cool but it didn't take my breath away. I'm still attached to the idea of someone renting us a bunch of cabins for the weekend with an amazing flat field with a mountain view and some sort of barn with a modern professional kitchen. Oh, and maybe a cute old couple well versed in vegetarian and nuveau American cuisine dying to cook a wedding for 100 people at $25 a head. Something kind of like this (sans old couple I guess). But I digress.

I took a little time out today from location/catering hunting to dream about my dress, because that is one of the fun parts. Yesterday I started to get kind of bummed out and broke my no-drinking-midweek rule with a glass and a half of wine. J calmed me down in the way that only he can (he's good at that! we should just get married, huh?) and I vowed to not get all worked up about everything already. I want this to be fun! So to that end I will spend a little time on the fun things every day. (And by the way, this blog is one of those fun things.)
So I am getting it in my head that I would like to make my dress. I have an idea of what I want and I have not seen it in the world yet. And no, that image is not it, my MOH has already yelled at me for even discussing my neckline around J. But it was fun! Give it a try, you'll like it.
So I came across this crafty gal who made hers and I'm not discouraged yet. But I would definitely need a helper. I stopped in at Home Ec in Silverlake to see if they had any classes of that nature but they are more beginning-oriented. Not that I am an expert by any means but I don't have time to take the scenic route, as it were. I think, and maybe I'm crazy for thinking this, that if I can make a corset I can make a wedding dress. I feel like learning how to build something with such a rigid structure (and many of the elements of wedding dresses such as pin tucks and fancy closures and other stuff I'm not expert enough to mention (and I didn't stay in my garment construction class long enough to learn) would be a great foundation for such an undertaking. I found this lady's blog a while back during my pre-engaged secret wedding porn viewing and that doesn't deter me either!
The only problem is that I definitely need someone to help me in this process, should I decide to take it on. Try as I might its still impossible to pin your own hemline properly without f'ing it all up (to say nothing of darts and bustles!)