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Tara's Wedding Dress Portfolio

I don't usually design wedding dresses off of the stage, but occasionally my friends ask that I do so.  Here are some of the wedding dresses (and the occasional wedding party) I've designed both for onstage and off.

  maidefancyflat The Recycled  Bridal Party 

weddingdresspage.jpg (56002 bytes) Alaskan Wedding Dress for bride marrying into a Tlingit Family 

Wedding Dresses for Celia and Rosalind in 1972 style Hippie As You Like It

Native American Fashion : Modern Adaptations of Traditional Designs How To Alter A Bridal Gown

Native American Courtship and Marriage Traditions

MVC-020F.JPG (55301 bytes) Wedding Dress for Lady Olivia in Caribbean style 12th NIght

Polly Peachum's Wedding Dress from The Threepenny Opera

gwen3.jpg (59715 bytes) For The Importance of Being Earnest, pretty well everyone in the show was supposed to look like Brides, Grooms, wedding favors, or wedding cakes.  Lots to see here, including a clear plastic tailcoat and top hat for one of the prospective grooms.

Your Vintage Wedding: Unique Ideas and Inspiration for Today's Bride

Always a Bridesmaid: 89 Ways to Recycle That Bridesmaid Dress

Apparel: London Opera Velvet Trench Medieval Celebrations : How to Plan for Holidays, Weddings, and Reenactments With Recipes, Customs, Costumes, Decorations, Songs, Dances, and Games

guys43 Adelaide and her Bridesmaids in Guys 'n' Dolls.  Dresses convert from their Hot Box stripper clothes. 

img07a.jpg (35340 bytes) Yum-Yum's Japanese Wedding Dress from The Mikado.

Mvc-016f.jpg (40368 bytes) Costume for the title character in Miss Julie intended to represent her mother's old wedding dress in shades of lilac. Shown here maginn-R1-12_4 worn in a fashion show. 

TARA70-R1-3_1.jpg (145537 bytes) Dress for the widow in The Bear, a comedy in which a romantic young widow, married to the idea of mourning her dead husband, is wood and won by an annoying creditor within minutes of meeting.  Her widows weeds are deliberately intended as a Goth Victorian wedding outfit in black.

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This page last edited on 10/18/2006