Artist Starts A Colorful Wedding Dress Business After Her “Fire” Wedding Dress Goes Viral
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Every artist has a different story about how they became a full-time artist. However, almost every artistic road has one thing in common—it is marked with struggles, insecurities, and moments of giving up. Taylor Ann Linko dreamed of becoming an artist since she was in elementary school, when she started to decorate fruit baskets and sell them to her mom’s friends. After many failed attempts, she finally made it a few months after her wedding with her fabulous fire wedding dress!
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Fire wedding dress
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Image credits: taylorannart | jamestangphotography
Months before her wedding, Taylor Ann Linko decided that she wouldn’t be wearing a standard white wedding dress and she would instead paint it. She went to a few stores dress hunting and found a beautiful dress “Savoy’s Bellezza,” which she then customized. The process was really slow and took her almost a week before she committed to the color test of her actual dress and technique—painting it with an airbrush.
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Image credits: taylorannart | jamestangphotography
Finally, a week before her wedding, the dress was finally done and the outcome was beautiful. The dress perfectly reflected her colorful personality and everyone at the wedding loved it. Months after her wedding, other people started to appreciate her talent. One day, her Facebook and Instagram notifications started chiming like crazy. Her dress was shared on the front page of a UK gossip blog and people loved it. Even though they didn’t credit her, people noticed and found her. “The art of painting wedding dresses started when my dress went viral. I’ve always been a very colorful artist. So I got to experimenting and brainstorming how to incorporate my passion for art and color into my wedding,” revealed the artist to Bored Panda.
Image credits: taylorannart | jamestangphotography
Image credits: taylorannart | jamestangphotography
Image credits: taylorannart | jamestangphotography
Hundreds of people started asking her to paint their dresses and Linko agreed. After that, she rented a studio down the street and started a small business of painting wedding dresses. Most importantly, her dream of becoming a full-time artist finally came true! Even though the process was slow, it was definitely worth it.
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They're so stunning. Definitely gotta do this for mine if I ever get married. And people will remember it more than a common white one.
When you get married instead of a traditional flower bouquet, you should do a Wedding Bouquet Brooch. They are lovely and one of the most memorable things from all of the weddings I've gone to. The one I saw, the bride made hers with all bronze shades of brooches.
I carried a pretty little bag which was far more useful.
"Stunning" is the only adjective that came to my mind when I saw the photos.
Maik love
I've always thought white wedding dresses were pretty boring (and kinda silly for most people, since they are meant to symbolize purity, and how many people are virgins at their weddings these days... anyway). I really love theses dresses. They are unique and beautiful. I still have my great-great grandmother's wedding dress. It's a shimmering blue taffeta with black lace. White wedding dresses are a relatively modern thing. Everyone should have a colourful dress!
I believe I recall reading (don't quote me on this, I'm probably wrong) that the style of wearing white wedding dresses started with Queen Victoria.
That's right.
Yes! Because clean white fabric wasn't cheap and really hard for poor people to keep clean. Meaning you got really expensive new fabric for your wedding dress because you're super fancy.
Koalamonster love
Found this explanation... (I was curious!) Many people believe that white as chosen as it symbolises virginity. Throughout the early 20th century, a white dress would only be worn on the first wedding, however, in more recent times a woman would wear white, cream or ivory regardless of any prior marriages. It’s been said that this was not the original intention however, as it was blue which symbolised faithfulness and purity, with strong links to the Virgin Mary. Another reason behind the white colour was as a further symbol of wealth and power, as it showed luxury and was typically very difficult to care for.
Random fact: while the dress being white morphed over time to become synonymous with "purity symbol", it's the veil that originally symbolized purity/virginity. The bride would walk down the aisle with her face covered, and the groom lifting it up and over her head to kiss her meant he now had the right to her, well, purity.
Veils date back to Greek & Roman times and were worn to hide a bride from evil spirits. The veil also hid the bride's face from the groom prior to the wedding, as superstition said that it was bad luck for the groom to see the bride before the ceremony. As weddings became more religious ceremonies in Western culture, the veil was used to symbolize modesty and chastity. The whole purity/virginity meaning has been superimposed. These things are often just another form of control. Maybe the further back we go the less importance these things had - a lot of this stuff came from the Victorian era.
The groom lifting the veil to see his wife is also owing to the Jewish story in Genesis of Jacob being tricked by his father-in-law into marrying the wrong sister. Lifting the veil is symbolic to make sure you're marrying the right woman. I am unaware of when lifting the veil became a custom in Western Judeo-Christian culture. This is what I was taught. I am curious to dig into if the purpose of the custom is fact or fiction.
My wedding dress was a form fitted white satin I found used. It had an ugly pink waist band. I went to the craft store and bought red satin ribbon..1", and the dress maker sewed it overlapping on the waist. It was beautiful. Total cost to look like a dress model..500.00. The alterations were finished the day of my wedding..(my fault)..and I PRAYED it would fit right! It for like a glove! My wedding was perfect as was my dress. After 10 years the dress is still in style.
I wore the white dress but with replica ruby slippers !
So many stunning dresses.
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They're so stunning. Definitely gotta do this for mine if I ever get married. And people will remember it more than a common white one.
When you get married instead of a traditional flower bouquet, you should do a Wedding Bouquet Brooch. They are lovely and one of the most memorable things from all of the weddings I've gone to. The one I saw, the bride made hers with all bronze shades of brooches.
I carried a pretty little bag which was far more useful.
"Stunning" is the only adjective that came to my mind when I saw the photos.
Maik love
I've always thought white wedding dresses were pretty boring (and kinda silly for most people, since they are meant to symbolize purity, and how many people are virgins at their weddings these days... anyway). I really love theses dresses. They are unique and beautiful. I still have my great-great grandmother's wedding dress. It's a shimmering blue taffeta with black lace. White wedding dresses are a relatively modern thing. Everyone should have a colourful dress!
I believe I recall reading (don't quote me on this, I'm probably wrong) that the style of wearing white wedding dresses started with Queen Victoria.
That's right.
Yes! Because clean white fabric wasn't cheap and really hard for poor people to keep clean. Meaning you got really expensive new fabric for your wedding dress because you're super fancy.
Koalamonster love
Found this explanation... (I was curious!) Many people believe that white as chosen as it symbolises virginity. Throughout the early 20th century, a white dress would only be worn on the first wedding, however, in more recent times a woman would wear white, cream or ivory regardless of any prior marriages. It’s been said that this was not the original intention however, as it was blue which symbolised faithfulness and purity, with strong links to the Virgin Mary. Another reason behind the white colour was as a further symbol of wealth and power, as it showed luxury and was typically very difficult to care for.
Random fact: while the dress being white morphed over time to become synonymous with "purity symbol", it's the veil that originally symbolized purity/virginity. The bride would walk down the aisle with her face covered, and the groom lifting it up and over her head to kiss her meant he now had the right to her, well, purity.
Veils date back to Greek & Roman times and were worn to hide a bride from evil spirits. The veil also hid the bride's face from the groom prior to the wedding, as superstition said that it was bad luck for the groom to see the bride before the ceremony. As weddings became more religious ceremonies in Western culture, the veil was used to symbolize modesty and chastity. The whole purity/virginity meaning has been superimposed. These things are often just another form of control. Maybe the further back we go the less importance these things had - a lot of this stuff came from the Victorian era.
The groom lifting the veil to see his wife is also owing to the Jewish story in Genesis of Jacob being tricked by his father-in-law into marrying the wrong sister. Lifting the veil is symbolic to make sure you're marrying the right woman. I am unaware of when lifting the veil became a custom in Western Judeo-Christian culture. This is what I was taught. I am curious to dig into if the purpose of the custom is fact or fiction.
My wedding dress was a form fitted white satin I found used. It had an ugly pink waist band. I went to the craft store and bought red satin ribbon..1", and the dress maker sewed it overlapping on the waist. It was beautiful. Total cost to look like a dress model..500.00. The alterations were finished the day of my wedding..(my fault)..and I PRAYED it would fit right! It for like a glove! My wedding was perfect as was my dress. After 10 years the dress is still in style.
I wore the white dress but with replica ruby slippers !
So many stunning dresses.
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It is very boring for me, talk to me! ★★ Write me. ⚡ Maybe we will make friends ⚡⚡ ==>> ︆︆v︆︆.︆︆︆︆ht/RpE2