A bride wore a custom-made wedding dress with a detachable skirt on her wedding day, so that she would still be comfortable moving around in her wheelchair.
Chelsie Hill, 29, and Jay Bloomfield, 35, tied the knot in a beautiful ceremony after first meeting one another at a tech event in 2014.
Bloomfield builds wheelchairs for a living, and Hill is the CEO and founder of Rollettes, an LA-based wheelchair dance team.
Hill has been paralyzed from the waist down since 2010, as she shared in an Instagram post in January.
When it came to planning their big day, Hill told Insider that she wanted a dress that would work whether she was sitting down or standing up. She planned to walk down the aisle using leg braces in addition to using a wheelchair throughout the event.
What's more, she documented her wedding dress shopping process in a series of videos on her YouTube channel. After trying on a few dresses, she found the one.
The Galia Lahav dress had a sweetheart neckline with a deep V neckline, removable off-the-shoulder sleeves, and a mermaid skirt made of tulle.
"The bottom tulle part of my dress was detachable, so we could flip it around," she said.
The original dress had a column skirt, so Hill's tulle addition was totally custom. Galia Lahav designed the removable skirt to work both when Hill was standing and sitting.
"If the dress was fit for me in my chair, then if I stand up, it would be too long for me to take a step and I would trip," Hill told Insider of why the custom skirt was necessary.
When she sat, the skirt was longer in the front, and when she was standing, she could spin the skirt around to create a train instead.
"A lot of the brides out there that are disabled that I've talked to, they're like, 'How was dress shopping? Was it hard? Was it scary? I'm so nervous. What should I expect?' And I'm like, 'No, it was actually good. Just bring someone with you and communicate to them and then it'll be easy.'"
She went on to say that she thinks it's natural for people who use wheelchairs to feel intimidated by wedding dress shopping.
"I feel like a lot of people with disabilities, we've all been just kind of pushed to the side," she said. "They've become accustomed to being like, 'Oh, well it's just a lot.' But it doesn't have to be a lot if we know what we need and advocate for ourselves. It's about communicating. I think that's the biggest thing."