It is #1 daughter’s anniversary. This is one of her wedding pictures. Do you think I am posting this in order to show off my lovely daughter and her knitting pattern husband? 
Of course not. I am showing off the wedding dress I made. Here is a picture showing the train:
And here is a detail of the hand applique and beading on said train:
And, hey, I made the bridesmaid dress, too, along with #2 daughter:
It is customary for bridesmaid’s dresses to make them look like a giant confection of some sort, so I think #2 daughter was lucky to be a tall scoop of raspberry sherbet. The dress was supposed to have a bunch of ribbon roses, but she politely refused to allow that. She wouldn’t let us put any in her hair, either. There is one at the back, however. The pink dress is bridesmaid satin, and has never been worn since.
The wedding dress is an underdress of satin, with an overdress of embroidered organza with pearl beading and hand-finished French seams. It’s from a Vogue pattern and took about one hundred hours to make. I’m making that up. I don’t know how long it took. I do know that I enjoyed every minute.
So Happy Anniversary to #1 daughter and Son-in-Law.
What a nice lookin couple. Great handy work. How lucky they are to have you to make such beautiful gowns. Vogue has got some awsome patterns. Also, as a hairdresser (Cosmetologist) I got to say, love the hair, too. We got a Renissance fair coming up in Oct. so lookin forward to that. Never been to one so it sounds like a good time.
oh i’m aware of the implications that my death has on my loved ones. i have an immense sense of a duty as a son, so i can never remove the presence of my family from my own existence, but my post was kind of a hypothetical type thing, you know. i wasn’t imagining the dying part, but i definitely was imagining the ‘dead’ part, which would in essence render it somewhat like imagining being an inanimate object, but the difference would be that the implication of the end of life IS there. at least that’s the way i thought of it.
anyway…you MADE that dress? wow. those things can be so intricate, its hard for me to imagine that they are made by actual people. peace.
ALSO…yeah…i didn’t realize it until i made the post and read it over, but it does verge on necrophilia, doesn’t it? I guess i should’ve given it more thought…but i can assure you (in case you have doubts) that nothing of the sort was in any way the motivation for the comments i made on that post.
What a dress! In fact, what a family! Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous!