Handmade Boho Wedding Dresses by Shany Sasson

Boho wedding dresses for free-spirited brides, handcrafted in Israel since 2011.

Shany Sasson, the designer behind Lace & LoveMeet Shany Sasson

I'm Shany Sasson, the designer behind Lace & Love, a bridal studio in Israel. Our Etsy shop is LaceAndLoveBrides; this website and the Etsy shop belong to the same studio.

I am a third-generation bridal designer. My grandmother grew up in Algeria under French rule and was an extraordinary seamstress with an eye for romantic, European elegance. After immigrating to Israel she settled in 1950s Tel Aviv, and raised my mother in a home full of fabric, art and music.

I grew up at her feet and learned to sew before I learned to read. My designs still carry the European elegance she taught me, cut now in the soft, breathable fabrics that suit the Mediterranean climate I live in.

The Studio

I founded Lace & Love in 2011, fresh from a B.Des in fashion design at the WIZO Haifa Academy of Design (today part of the University of Haifa), and shortly before my own wedding. Planning that wedding opened a world of lace and fabric I had never properly explored, and I have not really left it since.

In the fifteen years since, I have designed for hundreds of brides around the world, and the aesthetic has settled into something soft and romantic that manages to feel current without chasing a trend.

The atelier is small on purpose. Every gown is cut and made by hand in Israel, with no factory and no rush production. Each dress is made to order for one specific bride, in a standard size or Custom Made to her measurements.

The studio is in Hod HaSharon, just outside Tel Aviv. Brides in Israel come in by appointment for consultations and fittings. Brides everywhere else are fitted from their measurements, and I ship the finished gown to them by express courier. Same studio, same hands, two ways to reach it.

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Shany Sasson handcrafting a made-to-measure boho wedding dress in her Israel atelier Shany Sasson fitting a bride's made-to-measure gown in the Lace & Love atelier

What Makes Us Different

  • Standard size or Custom Made: choose XS to XL using our size chart, or select Custom Made. For custom orders, we use your bust, waist, hip, height and hollow-to-hem measurements.
  • Worldwide shipping: DHL Express or UPS Express, tracked, with duties and taxes prepaid where they are shown at checkout.
  • You talk to the designer: I read every set of measurements and answer every message myself. There is no customer service team between us.
  • Reviews you can go and read: rated 5.0 across 215 verified reviews on Etsy. Green Wedding Shoes featured one of our gowns in their Best Boho Wedding Dresses editorial.
  • Nothing made before it is ordered: there is no warehouse and no overproduction. Your gown does not exist until you ask for it.

Our Process

  1. Order online: choose your size, or choose Custom Made and your measurement guide arrives within 24 hours.
  2. Send your measurements (Custom Made orders): I read every set myself before production begins, and I will write to you if a number looks off against the others.
  3. We make it: five to six weeks, cut and finished by hand.
  4. It arrives: DHL or UPS Express, three to five business days.

Get in Touch

Write to me about anything, including the questions you think are too small to ask. I read every message.

Every bride deserves a gown made just for her. I can't wait to make yours.
Shany