Coolest Homemade FedEx Mail Order Bride Costume 2
by Bianca J.
(Santa Clara, CA, USA)
Homemade FedEx Mail Order Bride Costume
I was looking online for creative Halloween costume ideas and stumbled on a picture of a lady who was a Mail Order Bride. She was wearing a wedding dress and stuck stamps all over the dress. I thought that is a great idea, and original. No one does mail order bride for Halloween. So I thought it would be awesome to make a Homemade FedEx Mail Order Bride Costume out of envelopes!
I told my mom this:
I want a corset top that laces up in the back, a full tea length skirt, and a veil with lace and bubble wrap; then I handed her a stack of Fed Ex envelopes and said here is your fabric. She is a very experienced seamstress so she had no problem bringing my idea to life, and EXACTLY how I wanted it!
To finish the costume, I made a bracelet and necklace out of packing peanuts and bought a huge (fake) ring.
Tips:
Use big fiber envelops as you will have more flexibility with them, and an easier time sewing them together. There are not a lot of postal services that have fiber envelops. I only found Fed Ex and the post office that had them. I originally wanted to have a tiered skirt and each tier would be out of different companies, but that did not work out.
Although I do like how it is all matching and white as I only used Fed Ex envelopes. If I had used UPS my dress would have been brown, and wedding dresses are NOT brown!
