Meet your dressmaker

Your wedding dress maker is located in Suzhou; which is a city about 30 munites away from Shanghai by bus or train. This quaint little town is full of hassle and bustle as people go about their everyday lives. On the outskirt of this town there is a district called: ‘Jing Chang’ which is about 25mins by taxi from Suzhou town center. This is where 80% of the world’s wedding dresses are made.

 

Brides to be from China come to this district to get their wedding dresses made. However, what this district specializes in is handmade wedding dresses for exporting overseas to the many bridal boutiques in Europe, Australia, UK and USA. This industry is a multi-million dollar industry within China.

 

The actual history of Suzhou is in silk and embroidery the women in these towns are very petite with very dexterous fingers suited for embroidering all types of fancy patterns. Here is where the demand for wedding dresses came from.

 

Would be brides who wanted intricate designs on their wedding dresses use to send them to Suzhou to get them embroidered. From here on in Suzhou has produced some of the finest pieces in wedding designs. Every single wedding dress from this city has become a treasured piece of clothing for brides. Every Wedding Dress is handmade and then beaded and embroidered according to the instructions of the bride.

 

To bead a bodice it can typically take up to 3 days for one seamstress to just embroider the floral patterns on to a plan bodice than add the beading accordingly. Yet, it is this attention to detail that has made Suzhou famous for its wedding dress production.

 

Here is where your dressmaker lives. Shelton Wedding Dresses have carefully screened and search for the perfect dressmaker to make your dress. Our team of dressmakers is a small team headed by two sisters, where one is in charge of manufacturing, and the other one is in charge of final product inspection, client liaison and checking to make sure everything matches your specifications.

 

Further our team of dressmakers incorporates a pattern maker that can break down dress into the perfect pattern to suit the bride’s measurement and then cut the pattern to match. In our team we also have an embroider, who is in charge of creating exception designs in embroidery and adding it on to your wedding dress when it is completed.

 

We have included some photo of our team and factory to show you what we do!