So my daughter wanted to be Corpse Bride for Halloween. I absolutely HATE store bought costumes and LOVE Corpse Bride so you can imagine my excitement to make this one! Now I am pretty crafty, I know how to sew but I am self taught so whenever I make stuff I kinda wing it and figure … Read more
Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. For as long as I can remember I’ve always been intrigued by the spooky and the strange, which is probably why Tim Burton has always been a huge inspiration for me. This past year I decided to create my own version of one of Burton’s most likeable and … Read more
While I was browsing in the Third Store I found a second hand wedding dress for only $7.00. I then got this idea to dress my daughter as bride from the cartoon movie “Corpse Bride”. I used makeup and a can of black hair spray. My daughter had this wig since last Halloween. Everybody was … Read more
For our Corpse Bride and Groom costumes we bought the dress, veil, tux shirt and pants at a thrift store. We made a wig out of 1 blue and 1 purple roll of yarn. We then bought the white hair color to spray our faces. (It doesn’t get on everything and dries superfast – heaven). … Read more
I am constantly on the lookout for costume ideas so I pick up pieces and bits at yard sales and thrift stores in hopes that I can use them one day. This Corpse Bride costume started with the wig which I found at a yard sale for $1, and a boy’s skeleton costume that I … Read more
The dress, suit and everything thing you see for this corpse bride and groom costume was purchased from the Goodwill store. The roses were white bouquet spray painted black. The total cost for these two get up’s was around $20.00. Find any old prom dress or wedding dress, the worst shape it is the better. … Read more
We wanted to dress up as Tim Burton characters, so we decided on Jack Skellington and the corpse bride. I made the head for Jack Skellington out of papier mache. I covered an inflatable ball with cling film, and put 2 or 3 layers of papier mache (using old newspapers) over it. I didn’t want … Read more
My husband and I live in China for 3 years now… on our first Halloween here we were kind of worried that we would not have any Halloween parties to go to and actually we were wrong. There are lots of foreigners living here that try to make the best of it. So for last … Read more
I made there two costumes all by myself. Only the Emily’s blue hair was bought. For the Emily’s dress I bought some old curtains (altogether 5$) and sewed them together. I used my old corset too. Then I drew the curls all over the dress with the clothing colour. I bought white tights and coloured … Read more
Our 5 yr old daughter wanted to be the corpse bride from her favorite movie. We took her baptism dress and used black sidewalk chalk to make it look a little dirtier. We made a veil with netting (tulle) that I sprayed very lightly with black paint just to make it not so bright white … Read more
For this Corpse Bride costume I used my real wedding dress. I made black and white roses and attached them to the dress, and made a bouquet. I used an old net curtain to make a veil which I ripped up. I made the gloves in spider patterned material. I bought a black wig. I … Read more
This Homemade Corpse Bride Halloween Costume was more of a challenge for me than the scary clown was. I wanted to look as accurate as I could; basically, I wanted to look as much like Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride as possible. I bought a white wig and a bouquet of black roses. I went looking … Read more