Bringing a Vision to Life: Bridal House by Woo

Find It In Fondren 

By Abbie Walker

June 8, 2019

Samantha Woo has designed wedding dresses since she was a little girl. “My mother sewed all her life,” says Woo. “The scraps of fabric that fell on the floor while she was working became my playground.” Woo grew up in Vietnam and moved to America when she was about 13 years old. While in college, she was on track to become a lawyer, but visiting her mother in Vietnam reignited her passion for design. Woo studied fashion design at The Academy of Art University in San Francisco and earned a Master of Fine Arts from Mississippi College. She opened Bridal House by Woo in 2015 to feature her custom line of wedding dresses.

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The Tale of Samantha Woo

Delta Magazine

By Amber Helsel

March 4, 2015

A little, white house off Old Canton Road in Jackson has three large, pink fabric flowers in a row on the porch. A horizontal pathway of stones in varying shades of light brown and gray spans from the driveway to the edge of the house. A mannequin wearing a pale white wedding dress stares out from a large window at passing traffic, and a small sign in the yard says "Woo Couture."

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