Good Wedding Dresses

Other than Sleeping Beauty's dress in the 1965 [italic]Childcraft[/italic] fairy tales volume, this is my favorite wedding dress of all time.

Grace Kelly’s dress was one of the most popular of all time. Simple and classic is really the best, no matter the style. Trendy rarely looks good on most people, and the pictures look ridiculous later.

Jackie Kennedy’s dress.

Joe Kennedy had some say in it, she wanted something more modern. But it suited her face and figure perfectly.

Princess Grace (Kelly) was my favorite wedding dress of all time. Kate Middleton's was based or inspired by Grace's dress. I prefer the more modest neckline of Grace's.

Kate's chest looked flat in her dress, which is fine. But that kind of construction just is unflattering to smaller-chested women.

I realize I’ll get flamed for this, but I’ve always had a soft spot for Princess Caroline of Monaco’s first wedding dress. I like the modesty and think the eyelet is terribly sweet.

R4, I agree, loved Princess Grace the most but also loved Kate's dress almost as much. Both were pure perfection.

Here are some really good dresses. The wedding of one of the Monaco kids to Italian aristo Beatrice Borromeo. She wore several gowns, all gorgeous.

I liked Crown Princess Mette Marit of Norway's wedding gown. She's big boned milkmaid of a woman, so less was more on her frame and she managed to pull it off quite nicely.

That one is fabulous, R8! Never seen such elegant simplicity! Although I would say it needs a little more jewelry, some diamond earrings maybe.

^^^Maybe she did at the ceremony R9.

I liked Caroline Kennedy's wedding dress, with the shamrocks on the bodice and sleeves. She looked pretty that day.

Kate Middleton. Simple and gorgeous. Kate wore the dress....the dress didn’t wear her.

I like the weddings they have in studio era Hollywood movies where they get married by a judge or at a registry office and the woman wears a plain dress or suit with a corsage.

I get tired of the “simple” approach. I like lace, embroidery and surface embellishment. I agree that Caroline Kennedy’s shamrocks were original and charming.

There were no good wedding dresses until Vera Wang touched the genre.

Definitely my favorite movie wedding dress

What about Charlene of Monaco's dress? I think it's beautiful.

What about Charlene of Monaco's dress? I think it's beautiful.

Jackie Kennedy's wedding dress

Kate Middleton's wedding dress

Grace Kelly's wedding dress

Claudette Colbert's wedding dress in "It Happened One Night"

A bit bulky but kind of unique and classic at the same time.

You have to have a perfect body to pull this off, but she did.

Jackie Kennedy's wedding dress was a horror. Nothing about it did her any favors.

I absolutely love Kate Winslet's first wedding dress. It was a bit similar in style to the dress she wore at the 1998 Oscars

Somewhat clearer shot of Kate's dress from her wedding to Jim Threapleton

Loulou de la Falaise. I love a risk taking bride.

Bianca Jagger

[quote] Jackie Kennedy's wedding dress was a horror. Nothing about it did her any favors.

I don't think I've heard anywhere that it was a a "horror." It certainly wasn't. She didn't like it, though. She wanted something more modern, something from Paris. That was Jackie, a total snob. She later dismissively said the dress was made by "a colored woman." The "colored woman" was Ann Lowe, a very talented designer. She worked and her assistants worked their asses off; the dress and nine of the bridal party's dresses were ruined by a flood 10 days before the wedding and Lowe and the assistants reconstructed the gowns in eight days (the original time was eight weeks) to make sure they would be ready and received on time. Lowe should have had a career upswing after making Jackie Kennedy's dress, but in the end she lost money and received no credit for doing it, just airily referred to as "a colored woman." Lowe really got shafted.

Ann Lowe was very talented and treated poorly.

Jackie’s signature look, though, borrowed from French fashion, was very high-quality fabric in clean lines, almost austere. Lowe’s design was the opposite—intricate and packed with feminine details, likely hand-sewn. I’m very curious what Jackie would have chosen for her wedding if it had been up to her. Maybe some kind of sheath.

A London bride wore this gown & veil in 1865, courtesy of the Victoria & Albert museum, a modern day bride could easily wear this lovely gown.

Princess Margaret, 1960, designed by Norman Hartnell.

Princess Margaret's dress was a triumph in design... which is kinda surprising because Norman Hartnell dressed the Queen Mother to her great satisfaction... Serena Stanhope, who married PM's son, also wore something similar but it was a blend of satin and tulle and it didn't work... nice lines, though, just fabrics fighting one another... Princess Margaret's wedding gown is just terrific.

The only good thing about Serena's dress is that like her mother-in-law she didn't feel the need for a 20-foot long train. I dislike long trains as so few are well designed. I read somewhere that Armstrong-Jones asked Hartnell to keep the design of Margaret's dress very simple in order to highlight the Poltimore tiara and he more than succeeded.

A good wedding dress has either NO sleeves or long sleeves, and nothing in between. Caroline Kennedy's dress, with the baggy short sleeves, looked ghastly. Wedding dress perfection goes to Grace Kelly. She was fabulous... timeless.

This is everything today's bride wants.

My collection is the best.

Another vote for Grace Kelly and Kate Middleton here.

I’ve never understood these bridal costumes for women.

R12 = Liza on HSN

R34 Please don't post photos of Lauren Boebert's wedding day on this thread.

I loved the fur-trimmed brocade-y one that Victoria Lockwood wore. It was almost medieval. I just loved that whole vibe.

I think this one is very pretty

Kara Saun won the PR wedding dress challenge with this. The fitting isn't great and some might object to the low cut profile but this is what PR used to do.

My favorite wedding dress belongs to Stephanie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (ie the crown princess of Luxembourg). She’s a really dumpy and unfashionable woman but she hit a home run when it counted most, on her wedding day. The dress was grand, elegant, overflowing with couture details, and most of all, flattering on her. It made me happy to see her get it right with a dress that just screamed quality.

What's your favorite?

Jackie’s wedding dress looks like it was adorned with potholders.

Both of Lady Edith Crawley's gowns were nice.

Michèle Bennett marrying Baby Doc Duvalier. The dress was OK but the hairpiece was great! I think it was locally made in Haiti.

Victoria Newman's wedding dress

The Lucy Wedding Dress, Dracula, by Eiko Ishioka

I really like the modest bodices, like Princess Margaret's. If it's a church ceremony, your dress should reflect where you are ... in a church. It can still be fitted, just not tits out.

I also prefer more tailoring and more substance to the fabric. The dress at R41 has a lot of potential, but is heading into nightgown territory.

Demetrios by Ilissa, [italic]Modern Bride[/italic] magazine, 1984

Dorothy Zbornak's, of course.

Kate’s made great strides with her clothes in recent years but her wedding gown juuuust missed the mark. The bust cups needed to be more rounded and I wish she’d had softer makeup. She’s ditched the harsh black eyeliner and looks much better now.

R53, she didn't need "bust cups." I think that dress just accentuated her flat chest. Nothing wrong with smaller chests, but dress accordingly.

I’ll get a ration of shit for this but my favorite recent gown is Bea’s Corona wedding dress. Part of the reason is that with her style record, it would have gone disastrously wrong but remaking the Queen’s evening dress was a PR coup, the peaches and cream milkmaid look suited her to a tee. The off white color was better with her coloring and red hair which she left down. All in all, a charming look.

Now Eugenie had all the time in the world but I thought her gown was too stiff and bulky. The best part was the tiara and that she didn’t have a veil.

She did have small tits to go the Wonder Woman route.

"Kate’s made great strides with her clothes in recent years but her wedding gown juuuust missed the mark."

I agree, I've never liked that dress very much. The lace top didn't match the heavy silks of the skirt, a boat neck would have been more flattering than the too-sharp V-neck; the gown had many beautiful details but I don't think it worked as a whole.

I actually preferred Bea and Eugenie's gowns, and of those two I think I like Eugenie's more. It was simple, elegant, flattering, and everything about the design is an integrated whole. Just perfectly tailored heavy silk all the way, with no accessories or fussy details fighting the tiara for attention.

A veil on a bride is ridiculous--I'm glad they've gone out of fashion.

I have mine purchased. One day in Mar-a-Lago, I will be wearing it.

Bea's dress should have had the straps removed, the sleeves should have been long and the straps repurposed on the cuffs. The neck should have been crew and the same organza used as for the sleeves. The original skirt should have been refashioned as an overlay atop anew skirt for the taller Beatrice, in the same organza, bringing the pieces together. A bit like the link.

There, I've fixed it.

I really liked Fergie’s. And her hair styled with it. She did the wedding right anyway.

My daughter Gabriella wins, including in the groom category.

Nope, R60, the dress Bea actually wore was much nicer than the sketch you posted. The dress she actually wore was sweet, lovely, flattering, uniquely vintage, and yours is very Nancy Reagan.

Grace Kelly's wedding dress was not "classic." It was mid-century Hollywood overdo of Monégasque pretensions.

A good wedding dress in a dress that fits the setting and mode of ceremony, with the preference the setting is not a church, mosque, temple or synagogue unless the couple are active members, and never a cathedral. Especially if it's your little state's cathedral and you're doing it all for tourism and recognition.

^ Wrong. Bea's dress looked glued together in a rush.

I liked Bea’s dress a lot. And I loved the provenance and its repurposing in a time of austerity.

^^ I think it was nice that she didn’t spend a million dollars on an ill-fitting gown from a couture designer etc. It was homey and make-do and sentimental, perfect for the times. And she looked darling in it.

"The Lucy Wedding Dress, Dracula, by Eiko Ishioka."

You must be kidding. That awful gigantic ruff. That thing on her head which didn't look like a bridal headdress at all. What WAS it? And what Victorian bride ever wore anything that looked that? That was just a wildly over the top costume from a wildly over the top version of Dracula.

Sabine Getty, unconventional, striking, chic

the flowers were great, too.

R70, I agree. I loved that photo, with Bea peeking out from behind the flowers.

I like Ingrid Bergman's

Don’t shoot the messenger but Grace Adler’s Vera Wang was beautiful - and it’s probably the prettiest she ever looked.

Get a load of The Church Lady at r64...

John Galliano for Kate Moss.

Say what you will about Paris, but her wedding dress is a win in my book!!

I liked Rose Leslie's wedding gown. She's a bit frail and it swallowed her a bit, but on a normal-sized woman it would have been perfect.

Miranda Kerr's Dior gown, inspired by Grace Kelly's, was stunning.

Grace Kelly hands down.

Wedding dresses should have sleeves. The whole trend of sleeveless dresses was only popularized by the wedding-dress industry in order to save fabric.

R76 I see KKartrashian just had to wear a trashy dress to throw some shade on the other guests and bride.

What about the strapless wedding dressing craze? Why did that become popular? Because very few women look good in strapless dresses. It's especially awful when really overweight women wear them and they wear them a lot. All that fat spilling out of the dress...ugh.

Princess Alexandra's granddaughter was perfection this fall in Phillipa Lepley and her granny's tiara. I had been hoping Bea or her sister would go the Lepley route. Bea's wedding had been bumped up several times because of the pandemic and she deserved a dress of her own for her patience and designed to fit her. Her sister's Peter Pilotto number looked unfinished and as if made out of a tablecloth although the fabric was a custom job and $$. Oh well their tiaras from Her Maj's vault and the flowers were stunning.

And then there's this little number.

R44 A strapless bridal gown on a middle-aged woman looks desperate. It's foolish, but that's her brand?

Why do all of the grooms in this thread have major gay face? R82 is yet another one...

Lady Sarah Chatto

I dislike a sleeveless wedding gown on anyone, whether young, old, fat, or model thin. A wedding dress should have *long* sleeves, never short. 3/4 sleeves are ok, but never short and never sleeveless.

I’m glad I don’t have to pick out a wedding gown. I guess it all depends on the overall style of the wedding you’ve planned.

Personally I’d want something very simple. I should say, though, I’m from (really) a very good looking family… and when you’re used to going through life that way you realize early on you don’t have to overdo it. You just show up.

^^ by “simple” I mean something like what Lauren Bacall’s wearing here, but long and cream/white. Almost no extraneous detail.

Anything that doesn't require dry cleaning

Did Liz ever wear any good wedding dresses?

If anyone's willing to do the research on that, be sure to get back to us within the month.

Iman looked fantastic.

Sorry R76, but Paris looked like a call girl who has managed to bag one of her wealthiest clients. The lace looks like paper flowers glued by a five-year-old and her hair was a mess. The dress she wore for the afterparty makes her look like a Vegas chorus girl, and the guests all look HORRENDOUS (just look at the hooker dresses that Kim Kardashian and the mother of the bride wore). The only truly pretty element in the entire wedding, were the lovely bridesmaids' cape dresses, which were delicate, demure and soft.

Miranda Kerr's dress was also hideous, R78. It looks like a cross between an unfinished caftan and a tablecloth, with random sprays of flowers sewn onto it for God knows what strange reason. Moreover, her headdress looks like it was made out of whipped cream... When they say that money cannot buy taste, they truly mean it. Tacky, pretentious and ugly do not a good combination at all. She clearly wanted to update the 1950s ball gown look, and ended up looking ridiculous.

The dress below is, in my opinion, very pretty. Traditional, rather conventional in structure but with a lovely detail of floral print and lace up top. All that it needs to be perfect is a detachable lace cape in order to make it more modest, but it's great.

I really like the gown Maria wears in SoM.

Edith's dresses were very nice. Mary's was a boring, shapeless mess.

Raquel Welch in 1967.

Someone asked about Liz Taylor above, and I hope to fuck she did better than this the next time around!

Here's the Taylor-Fortensky wedding dress:

^^^ Yikes! Talk about tacky excess.

Pam Anderson:

Taylor's wedding to Fortensky was a blow out freak show with Michael Jackson presiding. All that expense and hoopla over it...and she was marrying some clod she'd met during rehab. What a joke.

Every gay guy wants to wear the wedding dress he is posting. Shave before you wear it, ok?

Why are all these dress white? None of these women are virgins. What color should harlots wear? Scarlet, I'm thinking.

I agree with r60, particularly regarding the sleeves on Bea's gown. My first thought was, that gown absolutely does NOT support short puffy sleeves.

They could have left the straps on the shoulders, but added a fitted soft organza sleeve to at least the elbow. Then they could have used an underskirt/ petticoat of the same organza to lengthen the dress, if necessary. That would have made it a near-perfect, elegant-but-not-fussy wedding dress.

Christ almighty these are dowdy as hell. You guys really hate to see a woman's upper half, huh?

R78 I hate the seam going down the front of Miranda Kerr's wedding dress. I also don't like how her chest area looks thick and padded like she's a sewing mannequin.

I think both Bea and Kate had perfect dresses for their weddings.

Kate’s was big, with exquisite lace and fairly glamorous without being tacky.

Bea’s was perfect for a country wedding, and perfectly suited her colouring. It was a fairly simple dress, given grandeur by the tiara which is most closely linked to The Queen herself. And her wedding photos were perfection, with a degree of informality which was really charming. I think the picture of The Queen and Prince Phillip smiling over at her will be remembered long after most oher images of recent roal weddings are long forgotten.

Julie Andrews as Maria Avon Trapp in The Sound of Music.

Covers up every inch but accentuates the figure and the woman.

And the drama!

Ah, Maria Avon Trapp. The original Avon lady.

Wedding gowns are very uncomfortable to wear. Stiff fabric or flimsy sheer stuff with no ease so it strains at the seams when you move. I think that’s why strapless stayed so popular for so long (once churches relented, before you had to have your shoulders covered). With a strapless, as long as it’s fitted right so you’re not hoicking it up every couple minutes, you are free to wave your arms about.

Yes, couturiers can design a sleeve with a full range of motion but we’re talking about the average bride. Actually, I wonder if today’s couturiers have that skill.

You want to see some truly horrific dresses, Google 'Alfred Angelo Originals". Very big during the 60s and Very ugly. He was the poster child for over the top, over decorated nightmares

R111 A number of them look just perfect for the pregnant bride!

Not a fan of Oscar de la Renta's overly frilly lacy bridal designs, but here the simple design seems to offset the busy fabric for the Texas country wedding of Jenna Bush.

I'm in the minority but I didn't think Grace Kelly's or Kate's gowns were anything special. MEH, to both.

I did like the SJP Westwood gown in SATC. Poofy and princess-y enough and the fabric looked to die for. Rich and sumptuous. Too bad she didn't fill out the bodice. Another gown I saw recently that I liked was Shiv's in Succession. Very elegant.

I’ve watched a lot of seasons of “Say Yes to the Dress” and it’s surprising that only about 4 of them struck me as perfect.

Say yes to the dress features a lot of overweight chicks. Hard to look good in anything that fat.

[quote] What about the strapless wedding dressing craze? Why did that become popular?

Strapless wedding dresses:

1. Saves money (for seller) on fabric.

2. Requires less tailoring skill because you're not fitting & sewing shoulders, armholes, etc.

Here's Princess Beatrice, getting married in one of QE's dresses (sleeves added).

I liked the bottom half of Gwen Stefani's first wedding dress.

R114 here is a link. Fabric to swoon over indeed.

Do you think that is silk shantung R120?

R76 Her sister Nicky's was by far superior.

R121 I know little about names of fabrics but here is the scrumptious description:

'The corset top was created in gold-backed ivory silk-satin duchess and the skirt from metres of ivory silk Radzimir taffeta, creating an exaggerated silhouette, nipped-in waist and a pointed sculptural bust.'

That poor spawn of Fergie and Andrew. Both bug eyed with horse teeth.

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A wedding gown you can plant...

Very pretty dress for this particular bride:

[quote]R118 Here's Princess Beatrice, getting married in one of QE's dresses

Nothing can save her : (

[quote]R116 Say yes to the dress features a lot of overweight chicks. Hard to look good in anything that fat.

they had a spin-off series for the overly-cake-loving brides called “Say Yes to the Dress: Big Bliss” which I couldn’t bring myself to watch. Too depressing.

The original show featured mostly in shape women, maybe because it showed off the clothes better.

A true classic...

I am usuall y against anything other than a traditional wedding dress but man, Bianca Jagger's was sublime

Beatrice's dress was an easy sell, because she was the one British princess who passed on the huge grandiose televised wedding, and went for the small, intimate, family ceremony. It seems to have been the most expensive small, intimate, family ceremony possible, these flowers alone probably cost somebody's years pay, but what the hell it was cheaper than Harry's bash.

And yes, that ivory suited Bea much better than bright white would have. What do we think of colored gowns? A lot of Asian brides wear red, as is appropriate for their backgrounds and families, but most of the colored gowns I've seen have been hideous.

Go to any beauty spot in San Francisco on a weekend and you'll see bridal parties in full regalia being photographed, and a lot of the brides are wearing hideous schmatas like this, in bright colors.

Ghastly, most of them.

Can you shut up about that bug eyed bitch and her handmedown dress?

^^ for r132, et al

Maxima’s Valentino dress suited her perfectly. Regal, elegant and the perfect pairing of veil and dress.

You want something you can dance in...

The bride wore red...

One of the most gorgeous and unusual dresses I've seen lately was made by a little suburban seamstress who works out of her house. My mother used her and I take things to her for alterations because she is excellent. This woman started making cotillion and prom dresses and now has quite the little business. I was there one day and she had a dress on the dummy that was a pink/beige silk underslip covered with battenberg lace. The dress was simple and I guess what some would call mermaid but this was more skimming then the tight silhouette of those. The girl who was going to wear it must have had a great figure too and tiny. It was one of the prettiest, most elegant I've seen in a long time.

30's glamour. Also, love this movie

R136 this is Valentino's best ever IMO. The unadorned heavy silk dress, except for discreet lace panels on each side that you only see when the dress is in movement, is not competing with the embroidered lace veil. It's also a great example of the elegance of three-quarter sleeves. A masterpiece.

Mimsy's veil...

[quote] ease so it strains at the seams when you move. I think that’s why strapless stayed so popular for so long (once churches relented, before you had to have your shoulders covered).

Strapless was popular because large busts (ie, bigger than a b) are difficult to design, and as the average breast size is D, 99% of designers don’t know how to do it. They just use a strapless corset and drape fabric over it.

Here are all the Taylor wedding dresses:

In a Playboy magazine interview, Terry Moore said Taylor’s first husband had an extraordinarily large penis. Long and “as thick as a beer can”

Liz was clearly not in her right mind to divorce such a rare jewel. Pearls before swine! She obviously needed a conservancy, like Britney.

R145 Didn't her first hubby beat the shit out of her?

Well, we know he beat the shit out of her pussy, anyway.

Ingrate!

R133 There are a lot of Asian brides and grooms who are photographed in Central Park. But, they aren't real couples. Their photos will appear in ads in Asia for destination weddings and wedding gowns.

R144 Great find. Helen Rose was a terrific designer and a great friend of our family. We loved hearing her many stories about the famous people she designed for. She was very unpretentious and sweet. She designed Liz Taylor's wedding dress and also Princess Grace's wedding dresses, the first and second ceremonies.

R145, I didn't know that about Conrad Hilton. But then I wasn't into reading Playboy mag.

What was Grace's reasoning for going with Rose over Head, r150?

Nicky Hilton beat Elizabeth on their wedding night.

Good question R151, no idea. And oops I forgot it was NICKY Hilton. I think Conrad was his dad. Beer can. Wow. Wasn't Lizzie a virgin?

[quote]R151 What was Grace's reasoning for going with Rose over Head

She probably just had a feeling for what each designer’s strengths were. Rose did Kelly’s last two pictures (one of which featured her playing a vintage princess) and created fancy, frothy dresses for the actress.

Since Kelly and Rose were making those two films together anyway at the time of the engagement, that might have made discussing the design more convenient, as well.

Oh, that's right, r154. I just remember that Edith wasn't happy about it.

Kelly in another Helen Rose evening dress:

[quote]R155 Oh, that's right. I just remember that Edith wasn't happy about it.

Head wasn’t happy about much. She often took credit for other people’s designs and was just pretty hard nosed in general. (I guess another way to put it was she was an expert businesswoman.)

Edith Head didn't deserve all those Oscars she won. I think the Academy just kept giving her awards because she was just a familiar fixture in Hollywood. She always struck me as being an unpleasant woman, but some Hollywood stars loved her because she created (or helped create) memorable costumes for them. I think Barbara Stanwyck paid for Head's false teeth. Seems Head missing front teeth and Stanwyck kept nagging her to get it fixed, Finally she dragged Stanwyck to the dentist and paid for the work herself. It didn't do much good. Head was always very unattractive, but that seemed to make her have better rapport with the actresses she costumed. She posed no threat to them at all, looks-wise.

Head was lez, and was very uncomfortable when the new generation of 1960s and 70s actresses started showing up for fittings without underwear.

I bet her little lezzie hands shook something fierce.

Faye, we’re looking at YOU!

[quote] Head was lez, and was very uncomfortable when the new generation of 1960s and 70s actresses started showing up for fittings without underwear.

I don't know where you heard that but I don't think it's true. Head seemed contemptuous of lesbians. She said this of Claudette Colbert: "That woman was a bitch and a dyke to boot!"

She had Resting Cane Face!

assaulting Carroll Baker onset

I agree, R161...no way would a woman with actual fashion sense be a lesbian lol. To quote Cher...Horowitz or whatever.. "As If!!!"

This is the most fashion forward wedding gown

This is what Harry Styles, Taylor Lautner, and the other fashionistas will be wearing

I like the "Barely There" wedding dress look

but I think it would look better with a seamed stocking

[quote]Head was lez, and was very uncomfortable when the new generation of 1960s and 70s actresses started showing up for fittings without underwear.

It wasn't that I was uncomfortable...

they just caused me to ruin several pairs of good underwear

For the thoroughly modern...

When I was in high school I thought this was the most beautiful gown.

So Claudette Colbert was a lez-bean? I had no idea.

Year, R169

That's perfect if you have no neck

[quote]This is the most fashion forward wedding gown. This is what Harry Styles, Taylor Lautner, and the other fashionistas will be wearing

Nothing says, "I'm a virginal bride like a tight pink hole"

Make sure it's subway appropriate.

[quote] So Claudette Colbert was a lez-bean? I had no idea.

Supposedly she had an affair with Marlene Dietrich. But then everybody had an affair with Marlene Dietrich.

They were just having fun...

[quote]They were just having fun...

With their tongues in each other's twats

Lucy Westerna’s wedding gown in Dracula is spectacular and has always been one of my favorite gowns.

[quote] Lucy Westerna’s wedding gown in Dracula is spectacular and has always been one of my favorite gowns.

I hated it. It was grotesque. It was a horror movie after all, so I guess that was the reasoning behind the insane, over the top, ludicrously awful wedding costume. No Victorian bride ever wore anything that looked like THAT. The designer said the "Australian frilled lizard was my source of inspiration." A lizard inspired the dress? Well, I can certainly believe that.

Hey, r178, it got her an Oscar.

An Empire waist, so suitable for...

…the beautiful reflection of my love’s affection?

Edawardian inspired is where it's at...this one is just missing a slightly longer trai

Something simple from Mackie...

Ginger Rogers in the "wedding dream" sequence of "Lady in the Dark."

R184 "Wedding Nightmare" is more like it.

That’s lovely r182. I’ve always liked that era, “tea dresses”.

Making spectacles of themselves...

Julie Christie wears a very interesting gold pleated dress in HAMLET. If I were of a certain age and being married in a private setting, maybe I’d choose something sort of casually sensual like that.

The groom might have to have a mustache, though. Maybe a monocle.

I love Fortuny...

Charles & Patricia Lester, who made the Julie Christie costume, also did some of the clothes for WINGS OF THE DOVE.

Their technique is different than Fortuny’s, which mysteriously held the tiny pleats forever. I think you have to send the garment back to them in Wales for cleaning and pleating touch up. But at least they can get the Fortuny effect in silk.

Camilla in Anna Valentine and Philip Treacy.

Another of the Lesters’ costumes:

[quote] it got her an Oscar.

Oh, the costumes were certainly spectacular creations. But accurate for the period? In many cases, no. And the wedding dress was a horror. No one could have looked good in it.

[quote]But accurate for the period? In many cases, no.

They weren't meant to be.

R97, that dress is from the movie, Father of the Bride, this is the dress she wore when she married Nicky Hilton, it was sold in 2013.

[quote]The wedding dress Elizabeth Taylor wore for the first of her eight marriages sold for 121,875 British pounds – or about $188,175 – at a London auction Wednesday, fetching more than twice the highest estimate for the gown.

[quote] They weren't meant to be.

Which is one reason why 'Bram Stoker's Dracula" was such a silly movie; the costumes that were "frankly outrageous and are only tangentially related to the historical period."

Whore Liz kept insisting on a lot of cleavage, and the designer had to talk her into a chiffon overlay above the cleavage.

Some sluts start young : (

And, r196...she won the Oscar.

I love the finished look of this gown with the dramatic lace cape.

Not a "real" wedding but I always thought Katherine Ross looked lovely in her escapee dress in The Graduate. Classic.

[quote] .she won the Oscar.

So what? It doesn't mean the wedding dress was a thing of beauty.

Katharine Ross looked lovely in everything. That dress is tastefully drab.

R201 The dress and woman who wore it are both gorgeous and the designer won an Oscar.

[quote]So what? It doesn't mean the wedding dress was a thing of beauty.

Doesn't mean it was meant to be.

[quote] The dress and woman who wore it are both gorgeous and the designer won an Oscar.

Without the enormous fake red hair and heavy make up Sadie Frost is ordinary. The dress is over the top grotesque. And a lot of Oscars are given to people who don't deserve them.

[quote] Doesn't mean it was meant to be.

It was meant to look ghastly? I guess that's one way to get attention, by making it as awful looking as possible. And the "voters" didn't understand anything except for the fact that the costumes in that Dracula movie were really big with tons of material and lots of frou frou and in such eye catching colors like blood red and pumpkin orange, woo, look at that, I guess I'll vote for that Dracula movie!

The over-the-top aspect was a conscious choice, r205. We understand that you don't appreciate it, but the union professionals who voted for the award felt otherwise and, r205, their opinion is the one that matters.

[quote] We understand that you don't appreciate it, but the union professionals who voted for the award felt otherwise and, [R205], their opinion is the one that matters.

Are these the same "union professionals" who voted "Crash" and "Dances With Wolves" and "Braveheart" as Best Picture? The same ones who gave Oscars to Gwyneth Paltrow, Roberto Benigni, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jennifer Hudson, Helen Hunt, Tatum O'Neal, Jennifer Lawrence, among others? And their opinion "is the one that matters?" You think every Oscar given out is well deserved? You are one dumb cluck.

And you're the reason the word tedious was invented.

[quote] And you're the reason the word tedious was invented.

Seems to me you're the tedious one: "The designer won the Oscar, won the Oscar, won the Oscar, won the Oscar...."

Sharaff

[quote]Elizabeth Taylor in her 1961 Rolls Royce - just after she married Eddie Fisher, and she had it painted a custom "smoke green" to match the color of the dress she wore at their wedding, earning it the nickname Green Goddess.

These sports ball people look great

Heiress Ivy Getty wearing a wedding dress made by Galliano, using pieces of broken mirror.

More Ivy Getty.

I have always had a real fondness for the wedding styles of the 1920s.

Great classical silhouette but lots of latitude to be unique.

Allison Williams in Oscar de la Renta

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^^^ Not a bride but a great edgy look for a wedding guest. Cara Delevingne at Princess Eugenie's wedding. The androgynous look suits her perfectly. It's hard to imagine how she could have looked better. The only annoying thing is her hand tattoo.

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Seriously , Carolyn Bessette,s dress when she married RFK Jr. A masterpiece of a bias-cut design.

r118 that dress has been ugly, in every form, for over half a century. I hope they give it a rest because it was one of many fashion misses on the Queen and Princess' part.

So many dresses from the 1950s to choose from and she chose that monstrosity!

NOT this one.

Lauren Bacall wore a simple grey suit when she married Humphrey Bogart. But when she married Jason Robards she picked this queasy thing for some reason. I’m sure it was expensive, but that color combination makes my skin crawl.

r221 I don't get what's so special about this dress. We've seen this style and cut countless times in the 90s. It's a beautiful color, but a very very simply dress any designer house could throw together. If you really think about it, this dress is more like a white bridesmaids dress, than special wedding gown.

She's skinny, young, blond, rich, and next to a hot Kennedy, with a top notch photographer, of course it's going to seem better than it is. But this is just a white bridesmaid dress.