Wedding was Perfect

Judy's wedding was just beautiful and everything went great. The dress looked so pretty and she looked perfect in it. It was such a bear to make but I couldn't have been more pleased with how she looked on her wedding day. I've never put so much work in anything I've ever made. Judy had a friend make a custom pattern but it came with no directions and no patterns for the front overlay. I had a hard time getting the poly chiffon to pleat but with tons of ironing and some steam-a-seam to keep the pleats from puffing out I managed to get the look Judy wanted. The front was the problem I had. I draped right breast and was able to make it look fitted and was happy with it. But the left side because of the direction of the pleats just wouldn't conform and fit to the bust. I took it apart 5 times trying differnt things. I even decided to start from scratch with a different pattern that had long ties that wrapped aroung the waist. I had made the new bodice and was attaching the long ties that wrapped over the bust and around the waist. When I got the bright idea of using the ties from the second bodice and attach to the waist of the original bodice so that I could get the fitted look on the left side of the bust and still use the bodice I had worked so hard on pleating. It worked like a charm and everything finally came together. All the aggrevation and hard work was worth it when I saw her in it. She loved it.