Leiren Designs

11/17/2025

I’m thrilled to share that my fiancé and I are expecting twins in April 2026! With this beautiful new chapter beginning, I will be completing my 2026 wedding season work slightly earlier than usual.

Important Scheduling Notes

To ensure every bride receives the special-touch, detailed experience Leiren Designs is known for:
• All final fittings will be completed by March 15th, 2026.
• Depending on your needs, final fittings may be conducted in your home for added comfort and convenience.
• I will be accepting a limited number of bookings leading up to this date.

Now Booking for Spring 2026 Brides

If you’re hoping to work together for your upcoming wedding, I encourage you to book early. This allows us to secure your spot in the schedule and ensure your gown receives the time, attention, and craftsmanship it deserves.

Thank you for your support, your excitement, and your trust during this magical season of life and artistry. I can’t wait to create something unforgettable for you.

— Madison Leiren
Founder & Designer, Leiren Designs

07/17/2025

What a wonderful time in Tacoma last night for the Washington Wedding Day Best of 2025 awards and issue launch! I’m so humbled to be nominated another year for Best in Custom Bridal! Congratulations to all of the winners and businesses recognized last night. It means the world to me as an indigenous artist to have space in rooms like these. To Washington Wedding Day, thank you for creating an evening to recognize the incredible talent in the Washington Wedding Industry and reminding us that Sky Is The Limit! .pointruston Washington Wedding Day

07/08/2025

Getting ready for the Washington Wedding Day Best of 2025 awards next week where Leiren Designs is nominated for best of custom bridal! I can’t choose which look is my favorite, so help me pick! Each look needs a little alteration or two to make it red carpet ready, but with the theme “Sky is the Limit,” we have inspiration from fluffy white clouds and summer skies. Which look should I wear? Washington Wedding Day

06/19/2025

We need your help to win Best in the PNW!

06/14/2025

It’s time to vote for Seattle Time’s Best in the PNW! I was so honored last year to win Best in Bridal last year thanks to each and every one of your daily votes! LEIREN DESIGNS was nominated again this year, and with your help we could win again! Find the link to vote here- votethepnw.com , under “shopping” you’ll find “bridal” and find me! A huge thanks for everyone’s support!

Vote once per day from June 9 through June 27.

05/06/2025

A Métis Scrip was a document issued by the Canadian government in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It was meant to extinguish Métis land rights — instead of giving Métis people the land they had lived on for generations, the government offered "scrip" in the form of money or land certificates. These were often confusing, difficult to redeem, and designed to push Métis people off their land. Many Métis people were tricked into selling or losing their scrip, and disallowed scrips were those the government later refused to honor — denying the person their rightful claim entirely.

In other words, disallowed scrip represents broken promises, systemic betrayal, and dispossession. It is a symbol of how colonial systems tried to erase Métis identity, remove Métis people from their land, and deny them recognition.

By printing an image of a disallowed scrip onto fabric and turning it into a gown, I'm taking that symbol of devastation and transforming it into a powerful statement of resistance, survival, and beauty through it all. The wearer is literally wrapping themself in history — not only in acknowledging history, but as someone reclaiming space, voice, and identity. It's a form of artistic reclamation — turning a tool of colonization into a garment of pride. That under whatever label is thrown onto indigenous peoples, we still are who we are underneath the government paperwork- beadwork and all. I decided to make the back a full length cape- so those unfamiliar with what this document is, or have only interacted with Scrips as a concept can see and read one- and the language used.

This design is deeply personal, and political. This is a copy of my Great Great Aunt's scrip. It's "making lemonade out of lemons" — taking what was meant to diminish people and turning it into something that celebrates them. It's saying: "You tried to write us out of the story, but we are still here. We carry our history, and we carry it beautifully. We will continue to tell this story through fabric and thread."

04/25/2025

Hey, we’re nearly there! After about 85 hours of heading, 8 hours of rhinestoning, patterning… we have to be over 100 hours for this beauty to come to life. Final fitting touches tomorrow to get ready for Fashion Week Calgary and Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity’s open studio tour! Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity