I was browsing somewhere and came across an etsy store that does wedding dress fashion sketches and I thought “Now that’s a cool idea.”

Most women only every wear their own dress that one day.  It’s a dress often that costs a fortune (sometimes not) and a lot of time is put into thinking about and planning.  Even someone like me who doesn’t often value the girly things in life knew basically what my dress would be from a very young age.  I always knew I would be married in blue, pale blue, just like my two grandmother’s were.  Their husbands loved them to the day they died and I figured you couldn’t go wrong following something like that as a tradition.  So with all of this thought, energy, time, and money going into a dress that’s worn once, it feels like a bit of a waste.

I can’t help but want to do as Kaylee did on Firefly and keep my dress hung up in my living room so I could just sit back and admire it, but that’s not practical, is it?

Instead the idea of a fashion sketch to display in my home sounded much better.  I think I like the idea so much, that if someone wanted to hire me to do this for them, I’d be thrilled and have a lot of fun doing it :)

Now I know often fashion sketches are done on figures that are more stick like and insane proportions to accent the look of the clothes, but I don’t feel comfortable doing that for my dress.  I’m a big woman and that just feels like lying to me, I’m sure it’s fine for some other women, that they just care about the dress not so much about making the proportions accurate, I just know for me, if I am proud of my body, I don’t want to lie about it either.