Lancashire seamstress hand-sews 40ft train for Venezuela Fury wedding dress

A Lancashire seamstress turned a church hall into a temporary bridal workshop to hand-sew a 40ft train for Venezuela Fury’s wedding dress, finishing the piece in five weeks after being sworn to secrecy from the first phone call. Emily Grant, 38, from Colne, said the train was the longest she had ever made.

Grant, who has run Sew In Love for 11 years and has worked as a seamstress for 15, said the scale of the commission forced her out of her own workspace and into Barnoldswick Independent Methodist Church Hall. Even there, the fabric would not fit straight, so she laid it out diagonally across the hall to assemble the train from first fitting to completion. The job was subcontracted to her by the Lancashire-based bridal boutique Ava Rose Hamilton, which said the dress was custom made with Emily at Sew In Love.

The commission puts a spotlight on the hidden labour behind luxury events, where bespoke craftsmanship often depends on small, local businesses with little margin for error. Ava Rose Hamilton, which has boutiques in Colne and Silsden, said Venezuela Fury personally chose the family-run business for her dream gown. The boutique also said the wedding could feature in the third series of Netflix’s At Home With The Furys, extending the work of a Lancashire seamstress into a global entertainment story without changing the hands-on nature of the making itself.

The wedding took place on Sunday, 16 May 2026, on the Isle of Man, where the Fury family has relocated after decades in Morecambe. Venezuela Fury, 16, married Noah Price at the Royal Chapel of St John the Baptist in St John’s before guests moved on to the Comis Hotel and Golf Club for the reception. Grant said on BBC Radio Lancashire that Venezuela loved the dress and that the Fury family were lovely, and she said the media attention had overwhelmed her.

Police later confirmed officers attended the Comis Hotel at around 9.30pm on the wedding night and one man was arrested. While some accounts described the train as 50ft, Grant said the piece she made was 40ft, a size that needed a church hall, a diagonal layout and a seamstress willing to build couture on a local scale.