Medieval, Renaissance and LOTR wedding dresses

I just found this site for medieval wedding dresses, appropriately called Rivendell Bridal. It's in the UK, but they ship anywhere. They have a good gallery of 'real brides' wearing their creations. You can obviously get some good ideas here, and adapt the dresses for organic/fair trade/winter/ whatever you wish. I've never done a LOTR wedding, though we did a couple of StarWars, see the Padme post below. You might enjoy our civil Medieval ceremony, which we've adapted for secular use. It would be interesting to create a MiddleEarth variant. Perhaps a water, air and earth ceremony... hmmm

Oh, and here's another costumier in the UK, who used to work for ballet companies and the RSC. Enjoy her Pre-Raphaelite and custom wedding dress designs.

Here is a great source in New York for Medieval dresses: The Very Merry Seamstress. It's a great site, and the owner writes a nice blog, as well. I love their bodice fitting process: (and I learned a new word: sloper - I shall now talk about my 'slope', I think, it's a fun word to use instead of bosom)

"Customized fit for brides: If you're worried about the fit, just let us know. We offer a muslin sloper (sample bodice) service for $50. We will send you a "practice" bodice with instructions for you to try on, write on, pin and send back to us to ensure your bodice fits you to a tee - In order to use this service, You must (and this is required) be able to take this sloper to a local professional seamstress - or someone who understands how to fit a sloper - and have them "fit" it to you, then mail the sloper back to us"