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Brides, Get Married in Exciting Wedding Dresses

Getting married to the man of your dreams is the ultimate wish fulfilled but getting married in an exciting wedding dress tops the dream. You can have the best of both if you know where to look for wedding dresses that fashionably punctuates your fashion statement.

Non-Traditional Bridal Outfits

Out there in the bridal market is the new breed of wedding dresses. So how about getting married in red? Like white, red stands out in the crowd. If you are worried about people’s reactions, you shouldn’t be inviting these people to your wedding, pun of course intended. So what if you are wearing a blood red wedding dress? There’s no law against it and society is becoming more lenient towards avant-garde brides. So there you are.

What’s up in the wedding dress scene? You might be amazed at the creativity with the work of fashion designers to bring up their wedding dress collections. The white traditional wedding dress is still a top drawer but there are new colors, ornaments, and new styles and you guess it right, fabrics. Feathers, metallic lame, and heavy satin are crowding out the puritan white wedding dresses of old.

How about a wedding pantsuit? Yes you can get married in an elegant pantsuit. These are not your average pantsuits, these are designed with panache to make your wedding day memorable and outstanding, fashion wise.

If you can’t make up your mind about the color of your wedding ensemble or if you want your favorite colors in your wedding outfit, there’s no stopping you from getting a multi-colored wedding dress! You can have the colors of the rainbow, mystic colors of the east, or the enchanting colors of fairy land – all in one dress. If this is your cup of tea, check up what’s stitching in the sacred halls of fashion design shops. Check out the bridal magazines or sneak into celebrity weddings and get your ideas from there.

New Hot Designs to Wow Your Groom

Metallic lame fabric is making a splash in the wedding dresses scene. These dresses come with yards of embroidered head gear with yards and yards of veil. Or you might swoon over a strapless creation with scattered beads that meet up front in a fantastic eye-popping design. In keeping with this design, accessorize with above-the-elbow lace or stain gloves. Match this with hooded tulle cap in your favorite color and voila, you are a stunning modern bride.

Tired of rounded and square necklines? Have your neckline cut out in a romantic sweetheart neckline and have the edges adorned with beaver fur or peplum. For the skirt repeat the beaver fur or cut outs. Your wedding guest will be the first to see this kind of bridal ensemble in your area and that should be the wedding dress of all bridal gowns.

Going eastern romantic? Have a sheer bodice with a midriff top complete with feathers. Not just any feathers but with marabou feathers and repeat this ornamentation on your high-heeled shoes for effect. Wearing dangling earrings with eastern art and a gauzy veil reminiscent of ancient princesses of the east, you have a wedding dress to beat.

If you want to get out of the long wedding dress mold, opt for a mini wedding dress. Show off your legs and impress the groom and your guests with the luxury fabric, pearls and accessories. Or go for a long gown with a long slit for emphasis. Aren’t wedding dresses getting hotter and more exciting? You bet.

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Wedding Dresses Shouldn’t Go to Pot

After the angst of going through several wedding dresses and finally making a selection, the bride has her dream wedding gown to last her memories for a lifetime. It’s a sad fact though that the bridal gown is placed back in its box never to resurface to make a show in another wedding unless the next bride is willing to don a wedding dress that has morphed into a disaster.

Preserve Your Wedding Dress

From the rack of fashionable wedding dresses, how many do you think survives through the years after use? One would be lucky to escape crumpling and soiling if the bride knew where to send her wedding dress for preservation. Yes, dear brides, there is apparel preservation available for those who want to keep their wedding gowns and wedding flowers to look as good new on the wedding day.

But if you are not the sentimental sort, preserving your wedding dress, is not in your books. You can alter it later for more practical uses but pray tell how many brides would dare mutilate their dream wedding dress? Another thing, if your wedding gown was lovingly stitched with pearls and feathers and imported from the best couture house in Paris, you cannot just let your dress go to rot.

Before you go through the stack of wedding dresses in the bridal shop, ask where you can have your wedding dress preserved. If the bridal shop does not offer this service, they can recommend a reliable apparel preservation establishment because bridal stores have set up extensive networking in the bridal business.

How Apparel Preservation Works

During weddings, wedding dresses are subjected to hugs, stains, and suffer other ‘indignities’ but that’s part of the game. Instead of rushing your thousand dollar wedding dress to the cleaners, rush your wedding dress to the shop that offers cleaning off wine or perspiration stains, and removal of fine confetti. Other services include fabric analysis and testing, assessment of fabric weave, dyes, and measurement, and checking out the ornaments used before the wedding dresses go through the works.

If you accidentally sloshed champagne on your beautiful gown, there’s no need to go hysterical over it – the problem can be solved easily by fine apparel preservationists. Whatever the stain, the apparel preservationist ‘detectives’ will be able to pin it down and clean it up the right way. So enjoy your wedding and don’t waste every precious minute watching over your gown and dodging hugs and toasts.

The careful study of the dresses gives the apparel preservationists the idea how to clean and preserve your wedding dress in its original shape, perhaps for the next bride in the family or plainly for your own satisfaction of viewing and showing off your wedding dress to your children, family and friends.

You can also sign up your dress for exhibitions of wedding dresses in the future – you never know. If this happens then it would be a grand experience for you and your family. Now you know how the pricey gowns of royalty and celebrities are kept in their best shape for years and these are later auctioned off after ten or even twenty-five years. With this length of time added to the lifespan of your wedding dress, the money you spent for your dream wedding dress is worth all the trouble.

Think Wedding Dress Preservation

Preparing for the wedding takes up the bride’s time and choosing the best wedding gown is the ultimate wedding preparation. Now hear, brides should also think about preserving their wedding dresses. Plan where to have your dress treated for preservation and learn how to store your wedding dress correctly – ask the preservationist experts who did the treatment on your wedding gown. To repeat, your wedding dress shouldn’t go to pot.

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Wedding Dresses: No Pain, No Gain?

As a bride, in choosing your wedding dress, you want to look your best in the bridal gown and will be willing to make certain sacrifices for it. The question is that is it really necessary? After all, women have thrown out the whalebone corset a long time ago, and comfort need not be given up for beauty.

A Lifetime Decision

In choosing from the thousands of wedding dresses available from thousands of designers, there are a few things that you should remember. First and foremost is that just because it looks good on the model or mannequin, it does not mean it will look good on you, or vice versa. Second, you will be in that dress for the better part of the day or night, and you would not want to remember your wedding day as the day you looked great but felt so uncomfortable.

Tricking the Eye

While it is true that most brides will look their prettiest in their wedding gowns because of the natural glow and beauty of happiness, a little help from a few fashion tricks will not hurt anybody. There are designs that draw the attention towards what you think are your best features. A low cut dress to show off beautiful shoulders, or knee length ones that show off the shapely legs.

There are also wedding dresses that are designed to “correct” body types, like if you feel that you need to shorten the way your torso looks, you could opt for the empress cut on your dress. The main point is that you should get an unbiased opinion of what your body type is, and ask around which design would look good on it. You don’t want to end up with ruffles in places that need not be emphasized.

Getting Comfortable

The comfort factor in wedding dresses does not rely mainly on the design but on how well it fits you. Even if you are getting a wedding dress straight off the rack (which really is a good idea because you can already see what the dress looks like in reality), you should not wear it straight off the rack. Have it altered and give it a dry run and imagine yourself if you can survive in that dress for at least eight hours. While you’re at it, do the same for your wedding shoes.

Another alternative that some brides take advantage of is to have different dresses, one for the walk down the aisle and another for the wedding reception after. This is also probably one of the reasons why many wedding dresses survive the wedding party. You can have the “reception” dress patterned after the “ceremony” dress, but in a simpler version.

Wearing White

Tradition dictates that wedding dresses are white, and according to Ms. Manners, everyone has the right to wear one. That doesn’t mean that you cannot get married in anything but. If you really feel that white is just not your color, then pick one in the color that you think suits you better.

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Wedding Dresses Emergency Solutions

Murphy’s law states that “If something can go wrong, it will” and even if it seems like such a pessimistic point of view, bad things have happened to wedding dresses on wedding days. You can’t prevent everything from happening to your wedding dress, and if you are one of the many unlucky brides who have wedding dress disasters, make sure you can fix it.

The Wedding Dress Kit

It’s not hard to create a kit that will fix most wedding dresses and most of what you need will probably fit in a small vanity bag. If you plan it well enough, you can even fit enough in there for your bridesmaids dresses as well. You don’t have to hold the kit yourself, so hand it to someone who will know what to do with it when the time comes.

Giving Your Dress CPR

Here is a list of a few useful things that you can stick inside the kit:

Double sided tape- ever see the red carpet on those film awards nights and wonder how the celebrities keep the dress in place like it was defying gravity? Well, this is how most dresses are held in place and how many actresses are saved from discomfort as well as embarrassment. This tape can also be used to fold hems and edges that may have unraveled.

Safety pins- don’t go for the dressmaker’s pins because you are not a dressmaker’s mannequin that can stand being pricked while wedding dresses are made. Safety pins are also more likely to hold whatever it is that needs to be held in place better.

Stick-On Crystals- these are especially useful for wedding dresses that are embroidered or with little gems sewn into the design. It’s also good for covering up little stains.

Stain Remover Sticks- obviously to get bigger stains out from wedding dresses that have met accidents. You can find these near or on the detergent aisle at the supermarket.

Talcum powder – if the stains are too tough for the stain removers, you can cover it up with talcium powder if your dress is white.

A Small Sewing Kit- like the ones you find in hotels, or just improvise one. All you need is a needle, some thread and a small pair of scissors to cut it with. Scissors are also useful for wayward threads on bridal gowns.

A Little Effort Goes a Long Way

It’s not expensive to create your own wedding dress emergency kit, at most it will cost you $20, even if you don’t have any of the items readily available at home. It will also keep your mind off your worries because you know that if something goes wrong, you will be able to take care of it.

For Keeps Having a story to share about how you fixed your wedding gown will be a trip one day, and you can even show the “scars” on your dress to prove it. One thing that you should do before putting the dress away and make sure that it will not end up ruined is to have it dry cleaned before storing it.

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