A Love Letter to Detail
To me, embroidery is more than just decoration.
Each flower and leaf tells a story.
A scattering of wildflowers.
A trailing vine of soft green leaves.
A palette of nature’s colors catching the light.
My love of embroidery started long before I ever designed a wedding gown. It began with my grandmother, and the treasures she saved from her own mother: hand-embroidered tablecloths, napkins, and pillows stitched on the finest cotton. Morning glories, roses, and ferns unfurling in careful threadwork. I remember being captivated by the hours it must have taken, and the feeling that someone had poured love into something meant to be lived with every day.
That early enchantment stayed with me. During my first design job out of college, I traveled to Paris to attend the Première Vision textile fair, and discovered a world of couture embroidery far beyond my family heirlooms. It was overwhelming in the most beautiful way, and it inspired a dream I still get to live today.
Embroidery as Storytelling
In our atelier, embroidery is never just decoration. It paints a picture and tells stories that are unique to our brides. Drawing you in slowly, inviting you to look closer. Not just at the beauty of the design, but at the emotion behind it.
A scattering of wildflowers might remind you of a childhood memory. A trailing vine can suggest new beginnings and growth. A butterfly may represent a loved one who is no longer in this world, but close to your heart. These details may seem small, but they hold tremendous power. They hold meaning, and they can become part of the story a bride carries with her.
Every piece we create is intentional and thoughtfully placed with care. In fact, we spend days perfecting the placements, sketching the artwork onto our patterns, and imagining just how the motifs will flow and flatter. Our embroideries feel personal, like they were created just for you, because they are.
Odessa Gown: An Elegant Sheath Wedding Dress
One of my favorite examples is the Odessa Gown, a simple sheath wedding dress with intricate embroidered appliqué details and sheer hints through the softly structured bodice. The white and ivory blossoms trail along silver vines in the most lyrical way.
Chrysalis Gown: Butterflies and Something Blue
Dear to my heart is the Chrysalis Gown, featuring blue flowers, hand-painted butterflies, and a shimmer of sparkle glistening underneath the A-line silhouette like sunshine. The addition of my signature lace butterflies is such a special touch, and can be customized for each bride. This gown is the epitome of a rambling garden in full bloom.
Couture Detail: Placement is Everything
One of the most important things you may not realize is that embroidery is not only about the motif itself. It’s also about where it lives on the gown.
Couture embroidery must flatter and create balance. It should guide the eye in a way that feels effortless. A flower placed a few inches higher or lower can change the entire feeling of a neckline. A vine that curves in the right direction can lengthen the silhouette. Even the density of the embroidery, where it fades and where it blooms, is carefully considered.
In our atelier, placement is a process of artistry and refinement. We sketch the embroidery onto paper patterns, study how it will move on the body, and adjust until it feels completely natural. When it’s done well, embroidery never feels “applied.” It feels like it belongs.
Peony Wedding Dress: A Blush and Sage Bouquet
The Peony Gown is a perfect example of how placement creates mood. The florals feel as though they are growing across the gown, blooming with intention, drawing the eye gracefully along the silhouette. It’s romantic, expressive, and undeniably couture, yet still soft and effortless. A modern Goddess commanding Earth's flowers to flourish.
Fujiblossom: A Lilac Wedding Dress Inspired by Nature
With the Fujiblossom Gown, the embroidery becomes part of the gown’s poetry. The lilac petals seem to drift with an airy lightness, placed to flatter and frame the bride rather than overwhelm her. It’s a gown that feels ethereal and artful, with embroidery that invites you to look closer and discover more.
The Color Story: Hand-Selecting Thread Like a Painter
Thread color is one of the most important parts of embroidery. Many people assume embroidery is simply “pink” or “ivory” or “green,” but in couture, it’s never just one shade. It’s a palette.
I hand-select thread colors the way a painter chooses pigments. I consider the undertones, the warmth, the softness, and how the colors will shift in different light. A flower might include multiple tones of blush, champagne, ivory, and barely-there gold, each one adding depth and dimension. Leaves are rarely a single green. They may include hints of sage, olive, moss, or silver. It’s this layering of color that makes embroidery feel alive.
And because the embroidery lives on top of lace, tulle, and silk, the fabric beneath becomes part of the color story too. A change in the base layer can transform everything. That is why we work so carefully to ensure the tones feel harmonious from every angle, and luminous in motion.
Meadowsweet: A Flower Fairy Wedding Dress
The Meadowsweet Gown is a beautiful example of embroidery designed in gentle layers of color. The pale pink, buttercup yellow and ivory floral motifs feel delicate and ethereal, with subtle tonal shifts of sage green stems create depth without heaviness. It’s the kind of embroidery where you discover more and more with every glance. Can you spot the dandelions at the hem? It's truly a wildflower meadow come to life!
Lunaria Gown: An Embroidered Black Wedding Dress
The Lunaria Gown is a dramatic take on couture embroidery, layered over black silk for a look that feels rich, romantic, and a bit mysterious. Muted lavender, teal green, champagne, and metallic gold threads create a moody, luminous palette, as though the florals are emerging from twilight. Three-dimensional flowers add texture and depth, while draped pearls bring a soft shimmer of light and movement. It’s a gown for the bride who wants her wedding dress to feel like a work of art, with a touch of magic.
Dimension and Texture: Embroidery That Dances
The beauty of embroidery is not only in how it looks, but in how it moves with our brides. The finest embellishment has dimension. It catches the light. It flutters in the breeze. It feels almost alive.
I’m always drawn to embroidery that has texture and layers. Petals that lift slightly from the surface. Leaves that flutter. Pearls and beading that sparkle as the bride moves. These details create depth, and they bring an unmistakable couture feeling to a gown. It’s the kind of artistry that makes it impossible to take your eyes off the bride.
Everglade Wedding Bolero: Embroidered Bridal Jacket
The Everglade Wedding Bolero is a true labor of love. Each leaf is hand-cut (no two are exactly the same) and stitched into place, creating soft dimension that catches the light and flutters as the bride moves. Combined with French lace and iridescent crystals, it’s an exquisite finishing layer, designed to feel effortless, romantic, and completely one of a kind.
Ophelia: A Colorful Embroidered Wedding Dress
The Ophelia Gown is a celebration of couture embroidery at its most romantic. Lilac embroidery and pastel, multi-color organza flowers in shades of blue, green and buttercup are embellished with pearls and beads, creating soft texture and dimension. The embroidered tulle is then layered over gold lace and chiffon, giving the gown a luminous depth that feels rich and unexpected. With its strapless, structured A-line silhouette, Ophelia is the kind of gown that feels utterly romantic and unmistakably unique.
Couture Embroidery: A Heritage of Artistry
Couture embroidery has a rich history, shaped by generations of artisans and supported by an extraordinary library of patterns, techniques, and motifs that have been refined over centuries. The textile houses that create these embroideries are true guardians of the craft, preserving traditional artistry while continually developing new designs each season.
For each collection, I sketch new ideas and select motifs that help express the story of that season. Then I work hand in hand with these houses to refine the artwork and choose every thread and color. It’s one of my favorite aspects of my work, and it’s how our embroideries become truly exclusive.
I feel incredibly grateful to collaborate with the most respected embroidery houses in the world. Over the years, they have helped me refine my skills and develop my craft. When you wear one of our embroidered gowns, you’re not only wearing beauty. You’re wearing heritage, artistry, and the hands of many makers brought together in the creation of your wedding dress.
A Wedding Dress as Legacy
When I think back to my grandmother’s linens, I can still picture the delicate handwork, stitched with devotion. In many ways, that sentiment is what I hope to convey. Embroidery that feels personal and holds meaning. A gown that becomes part of a bride’s story, offering future generations a glimpse of her essence.
Wisteria Embroidery: Memories of Mom
One gown that feels especially close to my own heart is the Wisteria Gown. Wisteria was my mother’s favorite flower, and she had it growing in her garden, cascading and blooming each spring in the most romantic way. And as an artist, she painted a series of watercolors of the view from her window. Creating this embroidery felt like capturing that memory in thread, and it was a joy to bring it to life. Even more special, my daughter is photographed modeling it, which makes it feel like a love letter across generations.
Maybe this is why I adore creating with embroidery. It is artistry, yes, but it is also part of my legacy. The patient beauty of handwork. The romance of details. The quiet magic that makes a gown feel like it was made for one bride, and one bride only.
