All About Wedding Dresses

Thousand of wedding dresses are rented, made, sewn, worn, sealed and handed down each single year. If you were to pile them all up, they would all basically look the same. So how do you go about to make your own wedding dresses stand out? Here are a few tips for having stand-out wedding dresses:

1. Splash in a bit of your favorite shade.

Think of Gwen Stefani’s luxurious wedding dress. Instead of merely settling for pristine white, add a little spunk to your wedding dresses. You may blend in a few pastels near the hem of your wedding gown, or add a few dainty miniature flowers at the fold.

2. Add a little sparkle

Other than spunk, you could also add in sparkle and sheen to your otherwise bland wedding dresses. Add a touch of sparkle with a few Swarovski crystals or beadworks to you wedding dresses. Just avoid overdoing it. Otherwise you would end up like a walking disco ball.

3. Be yourself

You can never do your wedding gown justice if you don’t wear it comfortably enough. Be yourself and wear it the way you would wear it and not how some stiff, self-conscious and awkward bride would. Have fun in your wedding dresses and wear it with confidence. No one else in the entire room looks more gorgeous than you.

For those wearing a plus-size wedding attire, fear not. It is not the size that makes you or breaks you. It is how you wear it and how you feel when you are wearing it. It is your day, you are the best looking chap in the room, you know.

4. Add a little pizazz

If you want to wear a pair of ruby red Dorothy heels with your wedding dresses, go ahead. Accessorize and add in a bit of your personality. However, you have to be very careful with this. Be sure you won’t go overboard. Accessorize carefully, not thoroughly.

You could add in few of the pieces that makes you uniquely you. Flower lovers, show your passion. Wear a halo made with the best flowers or have a few miniature flowers added into your wedding dresses. Just make sure you do not end up looking like a giant bundle of wedding favors. You might lead your guests scrambling to take you home.

5. Accessorize with a smile

Despite what people say, your mood really brings down or destroys an outfit. Even if you are indeed wearing the world’s most gorgeous wedding dresses, made with the world’s finest silk and embroidered with the best jewels, but your face - especially your eyes - reflect the anxiety, the doubts, the self-consciousness, you will not be doing your gorgeous wedding dress any justice.

Smile and enjoy the occasion. Your wedding day is supposed to be the best day of your life. Walk down the aisle with positive thoughts and do not dwell on apprehensions. In addition, do not feel conscious wearing your wedding dresses. You will not believe how a sunny smile can drastically change everything.

Even before your wedding day, you should plan on how you are going to preserve your wedding dress. Most brides find that their dress holds a lot of sentimental value and therefore want to preserve the dress so that it stands the test of time just as the memories of their wedding. Additionally, with as expensive as wedding gowns get, it’s a bit foolish to wear a it once and to then get rid of it. You can keep it forever and pass it down through generations of women in your family.

Why do you have to plan the preservation method ahead of time? First of all, each day you keep the dress exposed to the elements, the more it will be damaged. You need to start the preservation process immediately after taking off your gown. Secondly, you don’t want the headache of figuring out what you will do with your wedding dress on your wedding night. You want to have a plan that you can put into action that you are confident in.

The two options for preserving your dress are going through a professional company or doing it yourself. If you search on the Internet or even in your local yellow pages, you should be able to find a number of companies that specialize in dress preservation. These companies have the special know-how to make your wedding dress look good as new 20 years down the line, if need be.

Oftentimes you can even find a dry cleaner in your area will have a specialist that preserves wedding gowns. With many of these online companies you can order a wedding preservation kit. After your wedding, you follow the simple instructions to package your dress and send it in to the preservation company. By the time you return from your honeymoon, your dress will be returned to you - steamed, boxed and preserved.

If you want to save money and preserve it by yourself, it’s not hard to do. While the results won’t be as good as a professional service, your wedding dress should preserve rather well. The first thing you want to do is find an airtight box that is large enough to fit your dress. Then you should fold your wedding dress neatly and put it in the airtight box, while putting tissue paper on top of the dress. Finally, place the box in a warm and dry location. Down the road when you take out your dress to reminisce or even pass it on to the next generation, your wedding dress will be as good as new!

If you are leaving for your honeymoon immediately from your wedding reception, you can ask your mother or maid-of-honor to bring or send your wedding dress to the company for preservation.