Dress Designer Spotlight: Liz Fields

Many brides dream of having a custom wedding gown made especially for their big day.  But custom wedding gowns used to be the purview of wealthy brides willing to spend a fortune.  Wedding gown designer Liz Fields puts unique, customized dresses in the reach of the masses.

Relatively new on the scene, Fields is now offering her third collection of wedding dresses in her Spring 2011 line. "It's not a cookie cutter dress," said Dawn Wolsfelt, whose bridal shop, Wolsfelt's Victorian Bridals in Aurora, Illinois, carries Liz Fields' designs. "They're traditional with a little flair."

Fields is no stranger to the wedding industry.  Her father created a database system for the special occasion industry used by such famed designers as Lefkov and Watters.  "He was always in those offices, and I was always coming and hanging out with the designers." Fields told me.

But in college she was set to take a different path, studying premed at George Washington University.  Everything changed in her junior year of college when she was offered the opportunity to work on the film, The Nomad.  After spending six months in Kazakhstan working on the film, Fields re-evaluated her career path. "Do I want to head into the office every day or do I want to travel and meet new people constantly and delve into my creativity?" Fields said. "That was a turning point."

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