At THE MODISTE, we believe your wedding dress should be loved and treasured forever. That is why we launched our #MODIFY movement to help brides with our luxurious wedding dress repurposing service and collection. Your wedding dress is too beautiful to be hidden away!

As expert dressmakers, we can offer endless possibilities for upcycling your wedding dress into something professional, beautiful and personal. We can create a new bespoke made-to-measure outfit by repurposing your wedding dress.

For example, clients have asked us to dye their wedding dresses and turn them into elegant jumpsuits. A popular option is to create a classic and very wearable cocktail dress that our clients can always rely on for any future special occasion.

You can read about our #MODIFY movement in press coverage such as Cosmopolitan, Hello! magazine and Grazia.

REPURPOSE YOUR WEDDING DRESS with our MODIFY collections

We appreciate having so much choice and possibility of what to do with your wedding dress might feel overwhelming. That is why we have designed three MODIFY collections to help inspire you to repurpose your wedding dress; NOIR, TREASURES and HEIRLOOM.

And with many of our MODIFY options, you could even keep your precious wedding dress intact!

We created our NOIR collection to evolve your wedding dress into sensual and meaningful nightwear and lingerie. Our exquisite pure mulberry silk robes and slips can be all personalised with lace or other embellishments from your wedding dress.

Some of our clients have asked their spouses for these as a unique wedding anniversary gift, or simply ordered as a gift to themselves.

And the best part is that we can delicately hand unpick the detailing from your wedding dress or use offcuts from your bridal alterations. This means we can leave your wedding dress intact and perfect to keep forever, and you can have a stunning new creation to enjoy. It’s the best of both worlds.

We were delighted when slow fashion influencer and luxury fashion consultant Monica Marriott-Mills decided to modify her Emma Beaumont wedding dress with a white silk robe from our NOIR collection. You can watch Monica’s journey on Instagram, and see how we incorporated her dress’s gorgeous feathers into her new creation.

Or would you like something for the next generation of your family? It’s a tradition that stretches back many years: making beautiful christening dresses from wedding dresses that become family heirlooms.

Whether it’s a classic style, or more of a modern twist (such as newborn dungarees) it is a lovely way to see your wedding dress re-loved forever.

Christening gowns and flower girl dresses can be made using very little of your wedding dress (such as your wedding dress train). So you can have the best of both worlds – a new family heirloom and your wedding dress kept in tact – if you prefer.

And finally, what about something forever? Our TREASURES collection is possibly our favourite of all our luxury wedding dress upcycles. You can create a delicate Christmas bauble from your wedding dress trimmings or own one of our wedding dress miniatures!

What’s a wedding dress miniature we hear you ask?

Quite simply it’s an adorable 70cm tall replica of your wedding dress! Your miniature wedding dress can be used from offcuts saved from your wedding dress alterations.

You don’t need to alter your wedding dress at all to have a miniature made. We can match your wedding dress with materials we have in our studio (this is what we did with @themonicaway miniature which you can see on Monica’s TikTok).

We also had the pleasure of making the stunning Leonora Smee  a miniature of her Susan Neville wedding dress: you can watch her reaction!

So whether purchasing one for yourself, or as a wedding anniversary gift, a miniature wedding dress is a unique way to keep your wedding dress alive forever.