Stunning Homemade Adult Corpse Bride Costume

Adult Corpse Bride Costume

So my favorite part of the Corpse Bride Movie is when Emily turns into a butterfly and goes to heaven. So I wanted to make the dress disintegrate in to butterflies but I couldn’t figure out how to do it so I just added the butterflies and lights to represent the last scene in the movie. I wanted to make my adult corpse bride costume to be unique so I figured the lights and butterflies will give it an extra touch.

Supplies Used

1 wedding dress from a Thrift Store
1 cheese cloth for the wedding veil
1 unwanted pair of long white gloves
1 wig(ebay best wigs at best price)
1 can blue and black spray paint
Oven backed polymer clay (for Maggot) 3D butterflies stickers blue, black, white and clear.
3D skeleton Halloween costume for the ribs
Craft wire
Flower head band (search boho head band on ebay)
LED lights with battery packs
Branches from the dollar tree
EL Wire

Constructing the Adult Corpse Bride Costume

Dress

So I found a wedding dress that was 4 times my size, so I had to pretty much remake it. So, I took off the zipper cut off most of the dress and added grommet eyelet twill trim tape to lace it as a corset. I snipped the dress vertically in the center above the knee, I also cut a hole and the rib cage area and I used the hot glue to attach the rib cage to the dress. Then, I hot glued the branches, butterflies and lights on and in the lining of the dress. Finally, I hot glued the EL wire the top of the dress.

Veil and Head Piece

I took the headband spray painted black and blue. Then, I hot glued the cheese cloth to the headband and hot glued the Led light to sides of the veil and a separate light to the head piece. Next, I used the craft wire to hold the butterflies to give the allusion of butterflies flying around me. I made the mistake of putting the battery packs at the bottom of the veil not a good idea because I lost the batteries by the end of the night.

Maggot

He was very easy I used different color clays to make him. (My first time working with it)

Makeup

I used very pale bebe foundation cream and mixed it with blue food coloring and white eyeshadow. For the skeleton arm I made the huge mistake to use acrylic paint; I was so itchy all night.

In addition, it took me about 6 months on and off to make the costume. I got a lot of complements and offers to buy it.

I’m sure I am forgetting a lot but I really suck at writing so post a comment if you have any questions.

“I spent so long in the darkness….I’d almost forgotten how beautiful the moonlight is!” – Emily (Tim Burton’s most beautiful creation)