Wedding Dresses

Designer Spotlight | Sarah Jassir

Daniela from Sarah Jassir got in touch a few weeks ago about Sarah’s 2012 spring collections – I was immediately impressed, particularly with the wildly beautiful pink beaded gowns.  Everything is cut exquisitely – the top left gown in the picture below is so stunning, I can feel rantiness threatening to spill over.

Sarah has worked for the likes of Amsale, Vera Wang, and Valentino – talent personified. To find out more, go to her website ».

Here’s a few of my favourites, but for more, see the gallery below:
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Beyonce rocks bridal whatnots in her latest video

Beyonce has released a song and video centered around a woman getting married, which is here:

She has two wedding dresses (this whole two dresses gambit is getting really popular), both of which are ok – the second one (a Vera Wang) is nicer than the first, of which I am not a fan at all – way too froofy for my taste. But the underwear from the first scenes – WOW. It’s from Agent Provocateur, and it’s called the Penelope Basque – guaranteed to please. 😉

Barcelona Bridal Week

One of the major fashion events on the bridal industry calender is the Barcelona Bridal Week, which was in mid May.  And my goodness, there were some absolute stunners of dresses parading down the catwalks.  I’ve put together some of my favourites from a few of the collections below – all images are copyright BARCELONA BRIDAL WEEK.

Rosa Clara

Rosa Clara »

Jesus Peiro

Jesus Peiro »

Cymbeline

Cymbeline »

Novia D’Art

Novia D’Art »

Top 20 best dressed celebrity brides of all time

I’ve noticed in my Google Analytics that (for some reason) I keep getting hits from people wanting to know the most beautiful wedding dresses of all time.  Which made me think, hey, great idea for a blog post (though I’m limiting it to the celebrity angle so it’s not too huge)! So thanks, you creative surfers.  But then I got to thinking, well, that’s a pretty weighty topic to claim knowledge on, and really this ought to be a democratic process.  So I need your help, lovely readers.

What celebrities do you think deserve to be on the top 20 list?  Once I have a list, I’ll open up a poll, but I need the list first.  Feel free to pull from films, real life, the past, the present, wherever – I’d love you to contribute.

I’m starting it with two dresses (that are in fact v. similar) – Grace Kelly’s wedding dress, and Katherine Middleton’s wedding dress.  So, what else?

White by Vera Wang, at David’s Bridal

If you’ve always hankered after Vera Wang but thought it was waay out of your budget ballpark, something MOST exciting happened at the beginning of the year – Vera Wang teamed up with David’s Bridal (the largest bridalwear retailer in the US, and by largest, I mean 300 stores and counting *gulp*) to create a diffusion line. And predictably, the dresses are beautiful.

Obviously there are also bridesmaid dresses by David’s Bridal, but specifically there are Vera Wang bridesmaid dresses! Oh yes indeedy, and they are so pretty they make your eyes ache. Beautiful lines, dramatic detailing… bliss.

Dress of the Day | Amsale

Everything about this Amsale gown is delicious, from the richness of the colour through to the hand-pleated detailing on the skirt.  Yum!

Update: I watched the final of Brothers and Sisters last night (can’t believe it’s the last one ever – *sob*), and watched Sarah get married in a tea length version of this very dress, which looked beautiful. Though I thought her veil looked a bit twitty.

Alan Hannah 2012 Collections

I’m very excited to among the first to get my mitts on the photos of Alan Hannah‘s 2012 High Society collection – woot!  There’s one other Alan Hannah wedding outfit that I’ll post about (maybe tomorrow) once I get my hands on the picture – it made me (and everybody else in the room) smile when the model arrived on the catwalk wearing it.  Seriously awesome, but anyway, that will wait.  Below are my four favourites from the newest collection.  And I predict that the sheer poncho over a sleeveless gown will increasingly appear in lots of collections – so lovely! 

Alan Hannah are now on Facebook and Twitter, so if you want to a sneak preview of the picture I want to post, go take a look. – Keren

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