Wedding Planning: Formalwear
Legal Name Change Kit for New Brides
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Favorite Colors for Weddings
Wedding colors should be the colors that the bride and the groom agree on for the wedding. Men usually choose the darker colors, but what if your man likes the color red or blue... more
Tips for Choosing a Plus Size Wedding Dress
Your wedding dress is one of the most important choices you will make for your wedding. It can often be easy to imagine that just because you are a plus size woman you will not be able to be beautiful in your dress. However, this is not true at all... more
Cheap Wedding Dresses are Beautiful
Just because a wedding dress does not cost a fortune does not mean that it isn't going to look just beautiful on your wedding day. There are many places to find cheap wedding dresses that will make you look and feel like a princess. There is no need to spend more than $400 or $500 on a wedding dress. This is great for brides that want to keep the cost of the wedding down to a manageable amount... more
Beach Wedding Attire
Wedding is the most significant day in anyone's life. Choosing one's wedding attire may be an interesting as well as a difficult task. The wedding attire must keep you cool, comfortable and make you feel the man or the woman of the day too. Destination weddings are becoming popular and among them beach weddings are preferred by most, as it has a stunning effect with the sun set backdrop... more
Guide to Selecting Your Veil
The two biggest style issues a bride-to-be has to consider in preparation for the big day are #1 her dress, and #2 what, if anything, to wear as head adornment. There are veils, circlets, tiaras, coronets, crowns and garlands. Of those, there are many different styles, materials and ways of wearing each accessory. Veils, for instance, can be worn separately or framed by a tiara or circlet. Crowns can be made of flowers or metal, with or without gemstone adornment... more
Choosing a Flower Girl Dress
Flower girl dresses come in many different shapes and forms. This helps if you wish for the flower girl to be able to wear it many times, not just at the wedding, but also after the wedding itself... more
Bridesmaid Dresses: An Attendant's Perspective
When a woman has the honor of being asked to be an attendant at a wedding, probably the first thing that pops into her head is the bridesmaid dresses. There are a whole bunch of horror stories about nasty looking dresses that were chosen as bridesmaid dresses. I have seen tons of awful looking gowns, the ones from the 80's seem to be especially hideous. There are still plenty of fine looking bridesmaid dresses out there, so be warned bridal attendants... more
Buying a Vintage Wedding Gown
If you know an excellent seamstress, you can have a vintage looking gown made. You will have fun looking for vintage fabrics (silks, brocades, chiffons, satins, taffetas and velvets)... more
Before You Buy Your Wedding Gown
Many people will advise you to select a gown based on your figure type. This is good information and you will want to consider it, as well as your own personal style... more
Bridal Jewelry and the Dress
We all know that when a bride-to-be has already spent practically twenty years planning her wedding before she even knows who the groom is, the image that she dreams of is how she will look on her wedding day. Every little detail counts and is carefully pondered upon before making the all important wedding decisions... more
Flower Girl Dress Tips
Have you decided on a flower girl for your wedding yet? If yes, it is time to choose her dress, which can actually be a fun time for both of you. After all, next to the bride, the flower girl will be getting a lot of the "ooh's" and "ahh's"... more
The Second Wedding Dress
Gone are the days when the second time bride known as the "encore bride" has to settle for scaled down ceremonies with fewer guests... more
Was Your Wedding Dress White?
Wedding gowns have not always been elaborate white gowns, as many are today. This custom started with Queen Victoria's choice of a white wedding dress for her marriage to Prince Albert of Saxe in 1840. In this era, blue, not white, was a symbol of purity, and many brides chose to wear blue wedding dresses specifically for that reason. White, on the other hand, symbolized wealth... more
Avoid Costly Wedding Gown Mistakes
There are many things that can go wrong when one is shopping for a wedding gown. Here are some guidelines that will come in handy as you're buying your wedding gown.. more
Wedding Gown Styles
The wedding gown is most important choice for a bride during her wedding. Every bride dreams of an enchanted wedding and a beautiful gown is what can make the bride look like a princess... more
Wedding Dress for Your Body Type
There are millions of wedding dresses from which to choose. How do you choose the dress that will fit your unique body shape best?.. more
Tips for Picking the Perfect Wedding Dress
When little girls spend their math classes daydreaming of weddings (instead of winning the World Series--not to say you can't do both), what do they dream of first? The perfect wedding dress, of course: a gown in white satin with a bustle and sweeping train, the perfect embellishments, and the perfect shoes... more
About Styles of Wedding Dresses
There are many different styles of wedding dresses, almost as many styles of wedding dresses as there are shapes of women. No two women are shaped the same and that is why it is so important to get wedding dresses tailored to fit the bride. This often costs more money but it is well worth it if you want to look your best as you walk down the aisle. This should be the goal of all wedding dresses, to highlight all of the bride's best features and attributes... more