You'd have to be pretty confident to pull off a simple dress like this for your wedding.
But how breathtaking does it look?
No distractions.
image via Australian Womens Weekly magazine
A perfect winter wedding dress option for making a huge impact.
Would look especially good with an extravagent bouquet.
Speaking of grey... If you don't feel like wearing white.. here are some lovely options, for the laid back bride.. or bridesmaid
1st Row: ALC, Vena Cava
2nd Row: Sass & Bide, Chris Benz
all images from bopshop.com
Former Perth local Rebecca Twigley married AFL player Chris Judd on NYE just gone.
The Bride and Bridesmaids all wore gowns by Melbourne duo J'Aton.
Love the detail on the gowns! And the way each bridesmaid wore a unique dress, in slightly different shades of grey.
images via news.com
Didn't they all look absolutely beautiful!!
Especially that raven haired bridesmaid, who I happen to know from experience is the best Bridesmaid in the whole wide world and basically an all round top chick. hehe.
Congrats to the Newlyweds!!
..I'm going to kill some time looking over the frocks that inspired me at one point, in one way or another.
Because they might inspire you too.
Here are all the pictures I had collected over the course of my wedding planning.. (well just the ones I haven't already posted)
It truly is a shame you only get to wear one wedding dress in your life
I do miss dreaming about what to wear.
I'd love to be able to wear glamorous gowns on a regular basis
But there isn't much call for it in the desert.
Anyway here is a random mix of bridal lovliness
dress from AdVintageous' Esty store
image from Elle UK 2007
image via moodboard, dress by Yves St Laurent
dress by Monique Lhullier
image via Brides
dress by AKira
dress for sale from The Frock
dress by Lisa Ho via Instyle Magazine
image via Wish Report Brazil
photo by Iness Rychlik
dress by Chanel Haute Couture, via KellieJo's Flickr
image via sposabella
image via kellyoshiroevents
dress by Jenny Packham (2011) via Martha Stewart Weddings
image via obsessionMIA
dress by Stewart and Brown
image via We Heart It
image via csebastian
dress via Vintage Textiles
Styled by Jane Roarty via Santa Barbara Wedding Chic
dress by Sharon Bowen Couture via Bridal Magazine UK
image via Moodboard
image via Audrey Hepburn Complex
this this might be Lisa Ho?? anyone know for sure?
dress by Emmalee via Brides
image via nibsblog
dress for sale from The Frock
image via obsessionMIA
dress by Jovani
image via obsessionMIA
image via ObsessionMIA
dress by St Pucci, via Brides
image via obsession MIA
image via obsessionmia
dress by Alexis Mabille via Style.com
dress by Monique Lhullier via Fashion Fame
dress by Jenny Packham
image via obsessionMIA
image via dovima is devine's
Of all these pictures I think my wedding dress was most like that very last one. And I had dangly earrings as well.
I will be able to show you soon, I hope.
Now I've posted these pictures I can delete them from my thumbdrive.
A post wedding cleanse.
Check out this post from the archives for some more eclectic wedding dresses.
I decided we should indulge in some pre-wedding pampering the day before the wedding.
Originally I had this grand plan to book us if for the Bridal Party package at Escape Day Spa.
You get to chose get three mini treatments (mani, pedi, exfoliation, facial, massage or aromatherapy shower) and it goes for an hour and half. It would mean fluffy gowns, scented candles, soft background music...
But it has been canned because:
We will have had our fake tans, which rules out most of those treatments listed.
BM1 couldn't do it too late because her boyfriend is arriving from Melbourne that afternoon
And BM2 couldn't do it too early as she has to work
And it costs $210/pp which is a bit steep.
So instead we are going to slum it down at the local shopping centre.
image via MixnMatch
We will head to Nails Today where the Vietmanese girls in dust masks to file our toe and fingernails into perfection for $60 and you don't need an appointment
Then we can go to the Beauticans inside the hairdressers, where we can listen to 92.9 fm blaring away while they tint the hairs we like, and wax the hairs we don't.
We will come out looking the same as if we'd been at Escape.
There is one beauty indulgence that I won't compromise on, and that is having my eyebrows done by Ainslie.
An eyebrow shaping sets you back about $40 and usually takes at least half an hour, but this is no garden variety eyebrow wax! She assesses your face shape, your natural eyebrow contour and does some magic trick where you leave her salon looking younger and healthier and foxier than you walked in. I made my appointment with her months ago, because you have to she books out about 5 weeks in advance. Highly recommened Perthies!
And if it's your thing, there are more Brides with ciggies here and here
I was supposed to have my first dress fitting last Thursday.
I turned up to the shop with BM2, but they had made a mistake with my appointment.
For whatever reason, they thought I had just booked in to try on some dresses. Misunderstanding that I already have my dress and just need the dressmaker to alter it for me. So the dressmaker wasn't there.
We have re-scheduled for a fortnights time, which is the next time I'll be back in Perth.. and is only two weeks before the wedding.. Oh well, at least we have a venue
But it wasn't a total loss, as I still got to try on the dress again for BM2 who hadn't seen it in person.
And I'm happy to report that dress love is alive and well!
Image via quite cheeky
Felt great in it, and BM2 was gushing appropriately.. although I've lost a few kgs thanks to the wedding diet and it is now even looser than it was before. But we could imagine it would look good when it actually fits.
I bought my earrings along and played around with the veil they have at the shop..
Tell me what you think of me with a veil.
BM2 seemed to like it. I emailed the picture to BM1 who, to my surprised, really loved the veil. I think I like it too.. but am also wondering if it looks a bit too.. bridey.
If I were to get one, it wouldn't be as full as the one in the pic.
I'd love to carry a big bouquet of blossoms like this.
It would hardly matter what dress you were wearing.
image from So-en Magazine June 2008 edition, via K E T S U's photostream
And a voluminous dress and a voluminous veil.. who needs a wedding diet?
Hmmm well.. I guess at least the wedding planning would have been easy if I had a plastic Fiance.
images from Sposabella Magazine
Mannequin Boy wouldn't refuse to wear a brown a suit.
We would have the music sorted by now.
There would be more than one reading during the ceremony.
We would be be practicing our first dance.
And we'd have a gift registry.
But ya know.
Of course I'm glad he's a Real Boy.
These images are hypnotic.
The dresses are beautiful and the jewellery is interesting but I think it's the barefeet that gives them their power. Primal glamour!
All images via ObsessionMia
I love the headresses and the big hair. Perfect for the Undead Bride!
I'm quite like the modern minimalism of this Madison shoot.
A simple (but not boring) white dress makes it easier to work bold accessories.
Photos by Carlotta Moye, Styling by Fiona Lane,
Top: Dress by Camilla & Marc, necklace by Sportsgirl
Middle: Dress by Willow, Cuff by Roberto Cavali
Bottom: Dress by Magdalena Velevska, Necklaces by Peter Lang, Just Accessories and Charlie Brown
Yeah I know its just an advert.
And I'm obviously a sucker because it's making me want to run out and buy this dress.
I love the detail on the sleeve and the way the skirt just falls to the floor, with just the hint of a train.
I'd love to see it from front on, or a closer look at those exquisite sleeves, too see what the rest of the neckine is like