In August 2009, soon before turning 21 I got married! This dress is the third dress I ever made. I couldn’t really find anything that was exactly what I wanted, at least not at a price I could afford, or without travelling to another country.. so I ended up making my dress myself. I was lucky and found the fabric in a store that was moving and not going to sell fabrics anymore, so I got everything half price and spent less than 2000NOK (about 200GBP/260EUR/350USD) on all my materials, which I thought was really good since most of the dresses I tried on costed about 10 times more! I also made my own ear rings, necklace and tiara. I really loved the dress! I only wish I had the pattern cutting and construction skills then as I do now, it would have saved me a lot of time, and made for a neater finish… But, it looked exactly the way I wanted it to, and made me feel great, comfortable and myself on the big day!