A bride spent 9 months hand-knitting her own wedding dress complete with ruffles and yarn tomatoes

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A bride spent 9 months hand-knitting her own wedding dress complete with ruffles and yarn tomatoes
Esther Andrews made her own wedding dress out of lace yarn.TikTok/@estherandrewsbridal
  • Esther Andrews designs knit wedding dresses for her bridal company.
  • She made her own wedding dress and documented the process on TikTok.
  • The "space pirate meets a tomato patch" gown was made of over 4 miles of mohair lace yarn.
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Finding the perfect wedding dress can be equal parts stressful and fun, with many brides taking months to find the perfect gown.

But the process was even more difficult for Esther Andrews, a bride who made her own wedding dress.

Andrews is the designer and founder behind Esther Andrews Bridal, which specializes in bridal knitwear. Her products consist of shawls and wraps, giving brides stylish options if they are getting married in cooler weather.

But when the time came for Andrews to get married, she designed and made an entire dress, as she documented on TikTok.

Andrews hand-knit the dress over nine months, even stitching it together on the New York City subway to ensure it was ready for her big day.

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@estherandrewsbridal

I hand knit my wedding dress on my commute to work ##handknitteddress ##knittingtiktok ##spacewedding ##diyweddingdress ##fyo

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She didn't finish the dress until the day before her wedding, customizing every inch of it.

Andrews said in the video that her dress was inspired by "space pirate meets a tomato patch because it was just silly and fun."

She also made her husband's outfit, which looked like an astronaut suit.

Andrews' dress was made of mohair lace yarn, and it featured layers of ruffles.

A bride spent 9 months hand-knitting her own wedding dress complete with ruffles and yarn tomatoes
The dress had over four miles of yarn.TikTok/@estherandrewsbridal

As Andrews said in her video, the dress featured over 4 miles of yarn.

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The final dress had a V neckline trimmed with oversize ruffles, long sleeves, and a tiered skirt. The white base was topped with smaller yarn tomatoes as applique.

It took nine months to complete, and Andrews wasn't able to tell whether the dress would fit her before she put the pieces together.

It ended up fitting as desired, so Andrews' months of work didn't go to waste.

Andrews also made space-themed wedding socks covered in little stars to go with the wedding theme, as she also shared on TikTok.

@estherandrewsbridal

Throw back to my DIY wedding socks for our space wedding #diywedding #diyoutfit #spacewedding #spaceweddingplanning

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Her TikToks about the wedding gained traction Wednesday.

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Andrews' video about making her wedding dress had more than 388,000 views at the time of writing.

She also wrote in the TikTok that she loved the process of making her wedding dress.

"I will always cherish this dress and the time that went into making it," Andrews wrote.

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