Bride married in dream dress made by her brother

A woman says she felt "amazing" walking down the aisle in a wedding dress that her brother had made for her from scratch.

Brooke Jones, 30, married her now-husband Alex in Newport earlier this month.

Her brother Reagen Evans, 28, a couture fashion designer, spent about 120 hours making her dream dress for the big day.

"I've had no choice really over the years, me and Reagen have discussed extensively what we wanted," said Mrs Jones, from Bridgnorth, Shropshire.

"I think it was on everyone’s cards that I was never ever going to find somebody and get married," she said.

"When I met Alex, it’s like a whirlwind romance, we’ve been together 18 months, and we were engaged after like, six months.

"I knew straight away when he proposed to me, that I didn’t want anyone else to do my dress but him [Reagen]."

Mr Evans said: “I couldn’t really let her go to a shop and buy one off a rack."

The pair designed it together for months, but Mrs Jones did not see it until she tried it on for the first time, a week before her wedding.

"He blindfolded me," she said.

"As soon as he took the blindfold off, it was just amazing. The way that dress made me feel was just insane."

"Just to walk down that aisle in that dress, it was just amazing."

She added that her family were "speechless" on the day.

Mr Evans, who graduated from university in 2018 and started a couture business, said this was only the second wedding dress he had ever made.

The first, for a bride in Italy, was entirely red and had a hood.

He said: "I was excited obviously because it was Brooke, but there is that element of, 'If this goes wrong, this is my sister’s wedding, and I’m never going to hear the end of it'.

"It was really special, it was very emotional."

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