Can you recommend a good wedding dress book? One that really tells it like it is, under the surface, behind closed doors?

With all the stuff you really want to know if you’re a bride to be. The kind of book you’d like to flick through if you were sitting in a bridal boutique watching your sister try on wedding dresses.

Well, a year ago, I wrote one myself and it’s nearly SOLD OUT. The only wedding dress book of its kind, Relovable is celebrating its first birthday today, and what a year it has been!!

Can you dye your old wedding dress? Yes! You can! But there ARE a few things to consider if you want to end up with a wearable garment. What your dress is made of is the first to thing to look at, so to unlock its transformation potential, let’s explore a few of the vital things you really need to know about your bridal gown fabric

Where do you get your inspiration from?

I grew up in the 1970s, when there was a TV show called The Good Life featuring a couple trying to be self-sufficient in their suburban semi in Surbiton. I would watch it with my mum, sitting on our avocado velour sofa, eating butterscotch-flavoured Angel Delight.

That was where my wedding dress journey began… it sowed that little seed about combining sustainability with style.

How do you get from being a bespoke bridal gown designer to being regarded as a wedding dress repurposing expert?

Join me as I look back on the journey that took me from ordering new fabric willy nilly, to being an advocate for circularity within the bridal industry.

Your wedding dress is likely to be the most expensive garment in your wardrobe (or loft) and has so much potential for a second life, but it tends to get tucked away after the wedding and somewhat forgotten. You may have tried unsuccessfully to sell it to try and recoup some of what you spent on it, and are wondering why you kept it and what to do now?

If so, it’s time to fall back in love with it.

If you're reading this with your own wedding dress hanging in the wardrobe or tucked away in the loft, you're not alone. This question of “what should I do with my old wedding dress?” has sparked countless conversations in my Surrey Hills bridal studio. Read on to find out more - it's the reason I wrote my book "Relovable."