Creating a Modern Dress from Your Grandma’s Gown

If your family is set on your wearing the gown of a women from your past, don’t worry; you can salvage just about any dress to honor your mother or grandmother’s memory. With just a few alterations, the dress can be made to fit your style without completely changing the look of the gown. Here [...]

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Avoiding Common Dress Storage Problems

After the big day, some brides sell their dresses, while others donate them to charities or lend them to relatives. However, if you’re keeping your dress, you’ll need to find a good way to store it. That’s especially true if you’re hoping to one day give your dress to your daughter as an option on [...]

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Should You Wear a Traditional Gown?

For some brides, a traditional gown just means a white wedding dress. However, in other cultures, a traditional gown may look very different. For example, in India, wedding gowns are usually red, not white. If your groom and you share a similar heritage that is extremely important to you, the choice might be easy, but [...]

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How to Get your Smile to Match your Dress

When you’re wearing all white, it is easy for you smile to look less than perfect in comparison. You definitely don’t want your teeth to look dingy or yellowed. You can visit your dentist to have you teeth professionally whitened, but that process is fairly expensive.
Even at-home whitening products can get expensive, costing around $40 [...]

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Looking Thinner in your Wedding Gown

It’s the moment of truth. In the days leading up to your wedding, all of the dieting and exercising you’ve done to prepare for your big day can’t really help you anymore. Here are some last-minute tips for looking thinner on your wedding day:
~ Have the dress fitted. You should go for your final fitting [...]

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Two Common Non-Food Ways Dresses Get Stained

After your wedding, you might want to preserve your wedding dress. You could also choose to sell the gown to make make some of the money you’ve spent. In either case, you could have a problem if the gown is stained. Of course, food and wine are common causes of wedding dress stains, but you [...]

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Three Tips for Choosing a Flower Girl Dress

When planning the wardrobe for your wedding, the flower girl dress might be the last thing on your mind. This dress, however, is important, especially for the girl’s parents. Here are three tips you should keep in mind when choosing a flower girl dress:
1. Be willing to pay for some or all of the dress. [...]

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Your Wedding Gown: Who Should Pay?

You wedding gown is one of the most important parts of the big day. Along with your cake, it is the one feature that guests are typically curious to see. Of course, you can make more of a statement with a bigger dress budget, but exactly how much you can spend depends on who will [...]

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Three Etiquette Tips when Trying on Dresses

It’s you’re big day, but that doesn’t mean you have to be Bridezilla. Although some smaller bridal salons allow you to simply walk in and try on dresses, many prefer that you make an appointment and work with one of their consultants to find the right dress. Treat this person and the shop with respect, [...]

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Is a Short Dress Too Casual?

Short wedding dresses work well for brides who want a less traditional wedding, but less traditional doesn’t necessarily have to make “casual.” Some brides avoid even trying on shorter wedding gowns, since they think that this style won’t look formal. You certainly don’t want any of your guests to show you up, so here are [...]

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