Tips & Tricks
Everything worth knowing about finding, choosing, fitting and wearing your wedding dress.
Bridal Capes Are Becoming the New Veil: The Rise of Dramatic Wedding Dress Layers
For generations, the veil has been the most obvious answer to a familiar bridal question: how do you make a wedding dress feel even more dramatic? Add several metres of tulle, attach them to the bride's head and let the wind do its…
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How High-Neck Wedding Dresses Are Constructed: Collars, Closures and Fit
A high-neck wedding dress can look extraordinarily simple. A beautifully fitted collar, a clean line across the shoulders, perhaps a row of tiny buttons disappearing…
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The Return of the High Neckline: Why Covered-Up Bridal Fashion Feels Modern Again
For years, the most recognisable bridal necklines seemed to be engaged in a competition to reveal progressively more of the shoulders, décolletage and back. Strapless…
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How Bridal Bows Are Constructed: Structure, Fabric, Fastenings and Detachable Designs
A bridal bow looks wonderfully effortless when it is done well. Two beautifully curved loops, a neat centre knot, perhaps a pair of long satin…
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The Return of Bridal Bows: From Subtle Details to Sculptural Statements
There was a time when putting a bow on a wedding dress was a fairly straightforward decision. A small satin bow at the waist. Perhaps…
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How Wedding Veils Are Constructed: Tulle, Edging, Gathering and Combs
A wedding veil can appear to be the simplest object in the entire bridal wardrobe. A piece of tulle. Perhaps a comb. Occasionally some lace…
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The Return of the Drop Veil: Why Bridal Veils Are Becoming Simpler Again
For several seasons, bridal veils have been asked to do rather a lot. They have carried embroidered flowers, pearls, crystals, lace borders, personalised messages, enormous…
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Why Some Strapless Wedding Dresses Stay Up — and Others Don’t
If wearing a strapless wedding dress requires pulling it upward every few minutes, something has gone wrong. Despite what years of red carpets, bridesmaid dresses…
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The New Strapless Wedding Dress: How the Classic Is Changing for 2027
Strapless wedding dresses never really disappeared. They became so established in bridal fashion that, for a while, the strapless gown almost stopped feeling like a…
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Sculptural Wedding Dresses: Draping, Folds and Architectural Volume
Some wedding dresses decorate the body. Others appear to have been built around it. For 2027, bridal designers are increasingly treating fabric as a structural…
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How Wedding Dress Skirts Get Their Volume: Tulle, Crinoline, Horsehair and Petticoats
A wedding dress skirt can float softly around the body, hold a perfectly architectural A-line or occupy enough space to require its own transportation arrangements.…
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Modern Lace Wedding Dresses: What Makes Lace Feel Current in 2027
Lace never really disappears from bridal fashion. What changes is how designers use it. For 2027, the most interesting lace wedding dresses are moving away…
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Basque Waist Wedding Dresses: Why the Silhouette Is Everywhere Again
For years, bridal fashion concentrated almost obsessively on the natural waist. Then the waist started moving. Lower. Sharper. More sculpted. And suddenly the Basque waist…
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Civil Ceremony Wedding Dresses: What to Wear to a Courthouse or City Hall Wedding
A civil ceremony can be a ten-minute legal appointment followed by lunch, an intimate city wedding with your closest people or the main ceremony of…
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Second Wedding Dresses: When to Change and What to Wear
A second wedding dress can be practical, purely fashionable or simply an excuse to wear two completely different bridal looks in one day. Some brides…
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Wedding Dresses for a Castle Wedding: How to Match the Dress to the Setting
A castle wedding provides one of the most dramatic settings imaginable for a wedding dress: monumental staircases, historic rooms, stone courtyards, formal gardens, enormous doors…
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Wedding Dresses for a Beach Wedding: Fabrics, Silhouettes and Practical Tips
A beach wedding dress has to work with an environment that is beautiful, unpredictable and considerably less cooperative than it looks in photographs. There may…
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Wedding Dresses for a City Wedding: What Actually Works
A city wedding gives you almost unlimited freedom when it comes to the dress. A sleek crepe column can look spectacular at city hall, a…
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How to Choose a Wedding Dress for a Winter Wedding
A winter wedding opens up some spectacular possibilities for bridal fashion: richer fabrics, dramatic sleeves, sculptural silhouettes, heavier embellishment, capes, gloves and gowns that might…
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