I’ve mentioned before that a lot of things for this wedding I made myself, most of the wedding dress was no exception. I’ll get to more of the details on that later, for now I just want to talk about one piece of the dress; the belt.
Honestly I had no plans on wearing a belt until I went dress shopping and tried one on. My family really liked the way it looked on me, and since I chose such a simple dress they liked the way a little glitz looked with it. Who am I to argue? Except when it got down to the price.
A simple beaded belt ran as cheap as $200. Yeah read that again. I was floored, that cost more than my dress (again we will talk about the dress more in the future). There was no way I was going to pay that kind of money for a belt that I would never wear again. So the only obvious solution was to make it myself.
I had a million ideas and bought a ton of supplies to start with but what I ended up using cost less than $15. Would you like to know the secret? I used stick on beads from the craft paper section (similar stickers
This project was done in just one afternoon. It was as simple as peal, glue and stick. I did reshape parts of the design and add to it, but that wasn’t really too complex. I decided to keep the design basic and understated since that’s the look of the dress, though I don’t think it would have been too hard to go crazy with the rhinestones.
I really enjoyed this project and am completely thrilled with the results. I even got compliments on it from people who had no idea that I made it myself. I’m even more pleased to have such a big hand in the design of my final outfit for my wedding day, without spending a ton of money something that I would only wear once.