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Friday, June 7, 2013

Ninth Annual Toilet Paper Wedding Dress Contest Winners

The Official Ninth Annual Toilet Paper Wedding Dress Contest Winners are Mimoza Haska from Surfside Beach, SC (First Place), Susan Brennan, Orchard Lake MI (Second Place), and Carol Touchstone, Ft. Lauderdale, FL (Third Place).  These women and their dresses are absolutely gorgeous... Simply amazing.

Cheap-Chic-Weddings.com announced the winner of their Ninth Annual Toilet Paper Wedding Dress contest sponsored by Charmin today. Celebrity judge Kate Pankoke, bridal designer and season 11 Project Runway contestant, helped with the final judging which took place at RK Bridal New York City, NY.

Grand Prize Winner

Grand Prize winner Mimoza Haska is an Albanian born hairdresser and designer now living in Surfside Beach, SC with her family.

Beautiful Swan toilet paper wedding dress

She calls her dress "Beautiful Swan" and created it to fit her model. The dress features a cutaway bustier, hi-lo skirt, lilies and a crown style headpiece.

She used 16 Rolls of Charmin Ultra Soft, Glitter Glue, Glow in the dark glitter glue, Elmer's glue, paper tape and needle and thread.


Second Place Winner

This year’s second place winner is Susan Brennan, a designer, professional cheerleader for the Detroit Pistons and yoga enthusiast. She is from Orchard Lake, MI and was the grand prize winner in 2011 and 2012.  

City in Bloom wedding dress

Her dress is name "City in Bloom". She wanted to create an entry that is chic, yet whimsical with an interesting balance of hard and soft. She used 11 rolls of Charmin Ultra Soft, Packing Tape, Scotch Tape, Hot Glue and Needle and Thread. The dress features large roses on a removable skirt with a halter style top. The dress converts to a short party dress.


Third Place Winner

This year’s third place winner is Carol Touchstone, owner and creative force behind "Bohemian Style, an upscale consignment boutique in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. She is an interior designer and fashion stylist as well as a published author.

Coastal Wave Wedding Dress

Her dress is named "Coastal Wave". She drew inspiration from her love of the ocean and wanted to create movement on the piece. Her dress features a support hoop under the dress, asymmetrical accordion pleats and appliques.

She used 30 total rolls of Charmin including Charmin Basic, Charmin Ultra Soft, Vintage pink Charmin from etsy.com, Mod Podge glue, Scotch tape, Clear packing tape, double sided tape, white glue and needle and thread. She receives a $500 prize for her submittal.

Laura Gawne and partner Susan Bain who operate the website on saving money on weddings, base the contest on the popular bridal shower game. Cheap-Chic-Weddings.com asked their readers to create wedding gowns using toilet paper, tape and/or glue. Entrants were allowed to sew as well.

“The top dresses this year showed incredible attention to detail.” Said Laura Gawne. Susan Bain added, “Our contestants amaze us year after year, and this year is no exception!”

The Ninth Annual Cheap Chic Weddings “Toilet Paper Wedding Dress Contest” was sponsored by Charmin. They also welcomed new sponsors Idoweddingrunners.com and Womengettingfit.com. The winners were announced at an event hosted by RK Bridal in New York City. Dresses were judged on Creativity, Originality, Beauty and the use of Toilet Paper.

Photos from the contest and money saving ideas for planning your wedding can be found at http://www.cheap-chic-weddings.com/wedding-contest-2013.html.
For more information visit www.Cheap-Chic-Weddings.com

If you did not enter this contest, you can not blame Apparel Search.  We tried to inform you about this interest contest on our Runway Fashion blog back in April.  The article was called "Cheap Chic Weddings 2013 Toilet Paper Wedding Dress Contest".  Fortunately, they will possibly have the contest again next year.  Actually, we also reported on the 8th annual contest back in April 2012.

Congrats to this years winners.

By the way, if you like toilet paper dresses, you may also like to see a dress made of duck tape.  If you do, you can check out the duck tape fashion blog post from Apparel1 at the Fashion Industry Network.

 Read more bridal fashion blog posts.  The bridal fashion posts contain information about dresses, accessories, intimates, etc.  If you wish to ready specifically about gowns, you can try the bridal gown blog page.
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