I came across this website and thought the idea was fantastic.  I may order one of these for myself!

Mydreamlines.com is a company that sketches wedding gowns or bridesmaids dresses by photographs sent to them.  If you are wondering what it give the bride-to-be or are celebrating your first anniversary, I’m sure she will love this gift.

“The dress is completely white or ivory with maybe a tint of color of the artist’s choice to enhance areas of the dress, which will be applied with paint, pens or other tools. The artist can enhance the beading, lace, tint of color etc. The sketch will be illustrated by pencil on light grain paper by Sennelier. A sketch is not an exact replica. It is a rough design, giving the essential features.”

To learn more about ordering a wedding dress sketch, visit www.mydreamlines.com!

This Chinese wedding is one that will go down in history. A Chinese bride dressed in a 2,162-meter-long wedding gown handmade by her groom’s family on her wedding day Thursday August 6th, 2009 in northeast China’s Jilin Province.

More than 200 wedding guests took more than three hours to completely unroll the wedding train, and pin 9,999 red roses made of silk on the wedding train Thursday morning, before the bride put on the dress.

The groom Zhao Peng, a 28-year-old railway worker, wanted to challenge the current Guinness World Record of a wedding dress of 1,579 meters long.

After the wedding he cut the dress to 1,984.1,022 meters, representing the number of his bride’s birthday.  What a romantic idea!  The groom had 608 crystals stitched on the dress train in memory of their 608 dating days, starting from the first time he met with her.

Wondering how much this cost?  He bought the materials and asked his relatives for help in making the wedding dress by hand, which has taken three months to finish, and cost him some 40,000 yuan (5,856 U.S. dollars).

His aunt, a dressmaker, agreed to make the design. Other family members helped search for wedding information, select dress patterns, buy the materials, do lacework, make the silk roses and stitch crystals on the dress.

If you are getting married and own an iPhone, the iBridalGown.com application is a must have.  Everything you will need to organize your selections in wedding dresses, all in one application.  iBridalGown.com lets you understand the different silhouettes and necklines, while allowing you to enter your top choices in gowns you have tried on.

You can take pictures and store them along side information on each dress for easy future review.  This and much, much more makes this application attractive to the future bride.

Available at the iPhone App Store.