Below is the description I wrote for the judges at the county fair. I ended up winning a Champion ribbon for this jacket.
"I designed and sewed this wedding jacket for a friend of mine. She did not like the corset-looking lines on the bodice of the dress and she wanted something that covered them up but did not cover most of the bead work.
She told me what she wanted it to look like and I made the pattern according to pictures and descriptions. She changed her mind many times and sometimes I already had things made when she decided she did not like it. She choose this fabric and I worked with it although many times it was exasperating. I think one of the hardest challenges was making sure the jacket looked beautiful but didn’t fall apart and fray. The other challenge was designing the jacket train to follow the exact curve of the wedding dress. I also had to figure out how to bustle the wedding dress because nothing was there to bustle it up with. The bride did not want the bustle to be very noticeable so she loved my idea of putting the train of the jacket on her finger for the reception. This created a beautiful flow of fabric that covered up and disguised the bustle underneath. 
I started this last September and finished it two weeks before her wedding, May 31, 2008. The bride’s mother who had bought the dress for her daughter thought the idea of a jacket would ruin the look of the dress but when the mother saw it on her daughter on the wedding day she cried because she thought it was so beautiful. I am sure I made mistakes but I am so glad I was able to do this for my friend because I learned so much. Just hearing the story of her mother and hearing that the dress got many compliments is enough to make me want to do it all over again including the blood, sweat, and tears." 
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