Archive for the ‘Alternative Wedding Dresses’ Category
The Toilet Paper Wedding Gown
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008We have all heard of making flowers out of toilet paper. How about making an entire wedding gown? It has actually happened. According to Wedding Bells there is actually a contest in the US run by a toilet paper company that gives first prizes to the best designed wedding dress made out of toilet paper.
There are […]
Bring Back the Bianca Jagger Suit
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008In this age of ostentatious and glamorous gowns it was somehow refreshing to run across a mention of Bianca Jagger’s famous wedding ensemble on Bridezilla.com. Bianca Jagger made wedding fashion history back in the seventies when she married rock god Mick Jagger in a white Yves St. Laurent suit complete with narrow lapels, short waist […]
Hippie Wedding Dresses
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008If you want to be a bit of a hippie when you get married then your choice of wedding dress fabric has definitely got to be cotton or linen. This is also a great choice of fabric and style to wear for your wedding if you are on a budget. All a hippie wedding dress […]
Amazing Civil War Wedding Dresses
Monday, September 15th, 2008They say that the Belle gown and the Ball gown are variants of the Scarlett O’Hara style of dressing so why not go the whole hog and just buy a beautiful gown from one of the Reproduction Civil War sites online? There is one huge site like this on ebay called Fiddle Dee Dee and […]
The Lambskin Leather Wedding Gown
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008If you really want a highly unusual gown consider a cream-colored leather lambskin gown. This is a one of a kind gown, which is made from a designer known as Ava Marie Couture in Dallas, Texas in the United States. The gown is strapless and tightly fitted and it flows, screen siren style, straight to […]
The World’s Longest Wedding Dress
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008According to the magazine Ria Nivosti, the longest wedding dress train in the world (along with the wedding dress of course) has gone on display in a shopping mall in the city of Dalian. Dalian is in the most northwest part of China. The dress is a bright scarlet red which is considered to be very […]
Gowns For Pregnant Brides
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Gone are the days when a bride had to hide the fact she was expecting while she stood at the altar. In fact, it is increasingly more common to see a fully pregnant bride standing at the altar with nobody in the world judging her. Many celebrities have also gotten hitched or planned to get hitched while […]
Be a red hot bride - wear a red wedding dress!
Friday, March 14th, 2008The red wedding gown has become so hot that there is now an entire wedding site devoted to them called Red Hot Brides. The red wedding dress is only recently starting to catch on in North America but it has been a mainstay and a tradition for Asian weddings for thousands of years. The red wedding […]
How to add history to your wedding gown
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008According to a CBC story, in 2002, a Dutch couple in their eighties presented the Calgary Aerospace Museum with a wedding gown created from the parachute of an Allied Airman from World War II.Â
This may be an old story, but what a great idea – making wedding dresses from recycled parachutes. After all, they are made from really […]
Vintage wedding dresses
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007A few weeks back, we posted a story about 1950’s style wedding dresses that was wildly popular. Now, we’re back with a new post about vintage wedding dresses and a Web site that all you old-style dress lovers will really appreciate. The site is Vintageous Vintage Clothing and it features gorgeous formal wear and cocktail […]
