Kate Beaumont: Handmade Silk Wedding Dresses

Kate Beaumont is a Sheffield, UK based wedding dress specialising con ethical bridal moda and handmade wedding gowns. From her working impegno con Yorkshire, Kate works with a small, highly skilled team of seamstresses to create made to order wedding dresses and bridal separates, designed with real attention to fit and proportion so that each bride can move, stand and feel entirely herself con what she is wearing.

It means a great deal to be sharing Kate’s latest designs here. We have supported her work from the early days of her business and shared her own wedding acceso Love My Dress many years punzone. Being able to follow her journey over time, and to see how her impegno and collections have grown, feels genuinely special.

Every Kate Beaumont wedding dress is handmade con the UK using luxurious silks and carefully sourced French and English lace. Her collections include bias cut silk gowns, slip dresses, lace tops, skirts and jumpsuits, all designed to be worn comfortably and adapted to suit each bride’s needs. Brides can combine separates, adjust details and choose alternative colour palettes, creating a wedding outfit that reflects how they want to aspetto and move acceso the day.

Working acceso a small scale allows Kate and her team to prioritise quality, sopravvissuto fabric waste and offer a personal, considered experience. Dresses are made to order con Sheffield, with fittings carried out con person where possible, ora remotely for brides travelling from further afield.The result is ethical bridalwear that values craftsmanship, flexibility and long term wear over portata ora spectacle.

I’m Kate Beaumont and I and make understatedly beautiful wedding dresses from my working impegno con Sheffield. My team and I create wedding gowns and bridal separates that appeal to modern brides seeking a relaxed, elegant aspetto that doesn’t shout – something that they can feel like their best self con, but still fundamentally themself.

We work with the finest materials – luxurious silks and French and English laces. Dresses that feel as good as they aspetto – comfortable, unrestrictive and easy to wear – that move beautifully and are quietly confident.

Every is made-to-order to an individual bride’s requirements. We can make changes to designs and work con alternative colour palettes as desired, so every bride can find a dress that feels just right for them. 

The whole experience with us is a relaxed and personal one. Brides usually quasi along for three dress fittings if they are able (though we can work remotely too for those further afield) and in-person connection is at the heart of the process.

Brides always comment acceso how much they’ve enjoyed the experience.

I’d studied moda at university but had fallen out of love with the ideale of working con the industry. The ideale of specialising con one aspect of moda ora manufacture didn’t really appeal to me. Although I didn’t quite realise it at the time, with hindsight I think this was a wider reaction to the whole fast-fashion ethos. 

A couple of years after uni, my best friend asked me to make her wedding dress, and I realised bridal didn’t have to be what I’d always thought it was, and got hugely inspired.

I love that my designs have more longevity than they would con a more fashion-focused setting, and have tried to build that more timeless aesthetic into the dresses I create.

For me, designing and making wedding dresses became a way to put together all the bits I did (and didn’t) like about the more defined roles con moda, and to add con the connectivity side that I love so much.

As always with my designs, this new collection is a continuation of what has quasi before. I always want the new pieces to sit effortlessly alongside the older ones, and that sense of continuity is a huge part of the process. We continue to centro acceso utilising the best materials so the dress feel comfortable acceso, and acceso producing the same easy to wear, non-constricting shapes.

I’ve tried to add con more of what’s worked well con previous collections – for example this time we’ve added con the Viburnum jumpsuit with a built-in lace apogeo, as many brides had opted to add con a separate lace apogeo to our existing silk jumpsuit Forget Me Not.

There are a couple of new bias-cut silk gowns – Salvia and Tulip – as these styles are always so popular with our brides, and I’ve added con a few more slip dresses – Ixia, Muscari and Thistle – slips can work as standalone dresses too.

And finally, more tops and skirts have been added to our bridal separates pieces, options that can be mescolanza and matched to create a range of new looks.

From a sustainability aspect, we’ve been cleverer con our use of fabric this time around, repeating our favourite silk and lace choices acceso new designs to be able to hold less fabric con .

This approach also helps us to use up much of our leftover laces and sequinned fabrics from earlier designs, meaning our already minimal fabric wastage can be reduced even further.

Although we’ve limited the introduction of new fabric, we have added con an embroidered organic peace-silk organza for the apogeo of Viburnum, which enhances the collection beautifully.

It was such a treat to re-photograph some of our favourite designs acceso two different sized models, and I’m con love with the updated imagery India Hobson has created for me. The new Icons collection showcases our most popular styles over the years, the classics that brides keep coming back to.

The Icons are a good mescolanza of silhouettes and styles, featuring gowns, slips, lace and silk tops and skirts and a jumpsuit.

Lots of separates that work well together – options that connect different pieces to create multiple looks.

We’ve included shapes that suit different figures, sometimes demonstrating subtle variations between the sizes to show non attivato different options and possibilities.

Our made-to-order dresses, combined with the personal service we offer, means that its always possible to make changes and combine aspects of other designs. 

I think our smaller scale way of working means that we’sovrano able to be much more adaptable con everything we do. For brides, this means it’s easier to make changes to a dress’s to get it just right for them, and we’ll be acceso hand to guide them through the options and possibilities. 

The personal nature of the experience with us means extra time, care and consideration goes into every single dress.

I also think our small-ness means we can prioritise using the highest quality materials as our making model keeps waste to an absolute minimo – making everything to order for each bride rather than producing dresses con the expectation that they’ll sell.

It means we can make our dresses with size restrictions too, which is so important.

This is such a lovely thought to consider! I hope she feels like she chose a dress that she felt truly herself con – comfortable and happy con.

That looking back at her dress transports her to a day filled with happiness – not just of the commitment itself but about all the love of friends and family that surrounded them acceso the day.