With bridal designers and boutiques experiencing an influx of customers and limited supply, some brides and grooms are taking the sewing machines into their amateur hands. …
In 1992, Jane Daly was looking for a self-empowering project to take on. At the same time, she was also planning her wedding.
She found a way to do both by designing and sewing her wedding dress. “No one was making their own dress back then, but I wanted to prove to myself I could do this,” said Ms. Daly, a 58-year-old patient care coordinator at Professional Physical Therapy in River Edge, N.J., who married William Daly, also 58, on May 9, 1992 at St. Peter Apostle Church, also in River Edge.
For four months she worked nights at her parents’ dining room table crafting a gown from scratch using four different sewing patterns. The result was a silk taffeta fitted dress with hand-stitched pearl and lace sequence.
