09/30/2025
So I posted this on my personal Facebook and got like 3 likes. My own mother just hearted it. Not even a comment. That's when you know you need to find your people, right?
But here's the thing - this dress means everything to me and I don't care if that sounds dramatic.
My wedding got called off. Three weeks before the big day. Found out my fiancé had been seeing his ""work friend"" for eight months. Eight. Months. While I was literally hand-sewing beads onto my veil and picking out centerpieces.
The dress was hanging in my closet like a ghost. $1,200 I didn't have, bought on a payment plan, and suddenly it was just... there. Mocking me. My sister kept saying ""return it, get your money back"" but something in me couldn't let it go.
I'd always been into crocheting - nothing fancy, just scarves and baby blankets for friends. But after everything fell apart, I started spending hours on the Tedooo app looking at what other crafters were making. There's something about seeing people create beautiful things with their hands that made me feel less broken, you know?
That's where I saw this woman who'd made her own wedding dress entirely from crochet lace. Not like, hippie style - but this gorgeous, intricate thing that looked like it came from a fancy boutique. I messaged her asking about her technique and she was so sweet, even sent me some leftover thread from her own shop on there.
So I started over. Completely.
Took that store-bought dress apart piece by piece - kept the shape, but rebuilt everything in my own stitches. Every single motif, every flower, every delicate detail came from my own hands over four months of late nights with Netflix and too much wine.
The corset back was the hardest part. Took me like 15 tries to get the eyelets right. But when I finally laced it up and looked in the mirror... I don't know. It wasn't the same girl who got her heart shattered. This was someone who could take something meant to represent the worst day of her life and turn it into proof that she was strong enough to create som
