Ref. 29032-20BRIDE Of The Year Louisa Curtis is keeping details of her wedding dress top secret.

All she will reveal is that she will be breaking with tradition but will still be keeping with a fairytale style for her outfit.

The 31-year-old has had her first meeting with Dale Armitage, from Skyla Designs, Marlborough, who will be hand-stitching the wedding dress.

The company has sponsored the Evening Advertiser Bride Of The Year contest for the last two years and this year has donated a prize package worth £1,500.

As well as helping design her bridal gown, Louisa will be personally involved in creating bridesmaids' dresses for her nieces Bobi Skerten, eight and Amber White and Kia Barnes, both 13.

Louisa and her fianc Michael Nestor, 35, have an eight-month-old daughter Aine who may be a flower girl for their wedding on Friday August 27 at St Mark's Church, Rodbourne.

"She has started crawling so she will probably be walking by then," Louisa said.

The couple are delighted to have won the Bride Of The Year package, which is worth £8,000, because it takes away the stress and financial burden of organising a wedding.

Louisa has just started a new job as a hairdresser and is on a six-week training course in London.

And the couple are planning to move from their house in County Road to a new home Old Walcot in about six or eight weeks time.

Despite these additional pressures, the bride-to-be is keeping a cool head.

"I am feeling OK at the moment and am not too bothered," she said.

"We still have to finalise wedding invitations and choose flowers and the decorations but I feel in control."

Dale, who has been a wedding dress designer for 10 years, said: "Louisa has gone for something more unusual, which gives me a chance to make something other than a standard wedding dress.

"It's artistic and there is a lot of attention to detail which makes the dress unique and will make her wedding even more special."

Louisa's first dress fitting will be on May 1 when she will try on a template of her dress. She will then have another six fittings to make sure the final creation is just perfect.

The other sponsors of Bride of the Year are the Goddard Arms Hotel, in Old Town; Moss, in the Outlet Village; Sugar Celebrations, in Faringdon Road; Prestige Colour, in Rodbourne; Deacons, of Old Town; George Lesley Flowers, of Swindon; make-up artist Sharron Whiteley, of Pewsey; Party Box, in Wootton Bassett; bridal car hire from Dangerfields and Precious Moments, in Swindon

Bhavani Vadde