So my daughter wanted to be Corpse Bride for Halloween. I absolutely HATE store bought costumes and LOVE Corpse Bride so you can imagine my excitement to make this one! Now I am pretty crafty, I know how to sew but I am self taught so whenever I make stuff I kinda wing it and figure … Read more
Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. For as long as I can remember I’ve always been intrigued by the spooky and the strange, which is probably why Tim Burton has always been a huge inspiration for me. This past year I decided to create my own version of one of Burton’s most likeable and … Read more
For this Corpse Bride costume I used my real wedding dress. I made black and white roses and attached them to the dress, and made a bouquet. I used an old net curtain to make a veil which I ripped up. I made the gloves in spider patterned material. I bought a black wig. I … Read more
This Homemade Corpse Bride Halloween Costume was more of a challenge for me than the scary clown was. I wanted to look as accurate as I could; basically, I wanted to look as much like Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride as possible. I bought a white wig and a bouquet of black roses. I went looking … Read more
Most of this Homemade Corpse Bride Halloween Costume was purchased at thrift stores and then modified. I happen to pick a wedding dress up for only $3.50. Then I got some turquoise fabric dye for the top and bottom. The head piece was a wall wreath that I deconstructed into a head wreath and added … Read more
My Homemade Corpse Bride Costume idea was Emily from the Corpse Bride which is a Tim Burton film. The concept would be to make a live version of the cartoon. I wanted something that would be beautiful with a dark overtone. I first started shopping for the dress; the main element to my canvas. I … Read more
I love Tim Burton movies and originally wanted to be Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas but I did not have the time to make the costume due to how intricate her dress is. I decided the Corpse Bride Costume was the next best thing! I wanted to be a “sexy one” so I added a … Read more
I wanted to reproduce Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride as closely as possible and was able to find all the materials I needed at the thrift shop and Dollar store. The cost for everything added up to around $15. The sewing was also really minimal – just a little bit of hand sewing here and there, … Read more
My daughter’s best friend wanted to be Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride for Halloween, so I undertook the task. I found an older wedding dress in her size and proceeded to destroy it. I cut a long slit up the front and then sewed it together so that her leg would poke out and not be … Read more
Salvation army here we go! Grab a old wedding dress or a princess costume and tear it up, spray paint it and Voila, you have a Corpse Bride costume! Makeup (blue and white face paint) add some fake eyelashes and a purple wig. Voila!
While I was browsing in the Third Store I found a second hand wedding dress for only $7.00. I then got this idea to dress my daughter as bride from the cartoon movie “Corpse Bride”. I used makeup and a can of black hair spray. My daughter had this wig since last Halloween. Everybody was … Read more
For our Corpse Bride and Groom costumes we bought the dress, veil, tux shirt and pants at a thrift store. We made a wig out of 1 blue and 1 purple roll of yarn. We then bought the white hair color to spray our faces. (It doesn’t get on everything and dries superfast – heaven). … Read more