A fashion title that happens to cover weddings.

The Bridal Journey
Corded lace and silk dupioni of the Montecito gown.
Brittany Castaños in the Montecito gown in the Mural Room of the Santa Barbara Courthouse.

Real Weddings

A Dress of Her Own:
Brittany Castaños’s Santa Barbara Wedding

The gown she wore was one she had drawn, fitted and sewn herself — Daughters of Simone designer Brittany Castaños on a hidden corset, a train borrowed from Diana, and the two small boys who ran at her the first time they saw the dress.

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Mood board for the Montecito gown — vintage French corded lace, silk dupioni swatches and 1940s wedding photographs.

The Dress

Inside the making of the “Montecito”

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Brittany Castaños at the first fitting of the Montecito gown, her sons Jude and August in the room.

Real Weddings

The first fitting, with two small witnesses

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Detail of the reworked vintage gold lamé dress worn for dancing.

Fashion

A vintage gold lamé, reworked for dancing

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