Your Wedding
Feature Launched: September 5, 2007
About: Details about your wedding!
Your Wedding
September 5th, 2007 @ 7:13 pm by Your Wedding
We’re launching a new feature today called “Your Wedding” where we’ll get to know a little bit about the details of you, the reader’s wedding. We’ll ask you to share various tidbits like which vendors you’re using, which traditions you’re incorporating, etc. It’ll be a great way to have answers to commonly asked questions all in one place for anyone to go back and reference. Sound good? 
This new feature was actually inspired by a thread started by Jillibean on the weddingbee boards where she asks how you chose your wedding date, so thanks Jillibean!
Let’s start with something a little fun:
Who designed your wedding dress?
198 Responses to “Your Wedding”
I’m giving mini reed-diffusers… I found this great lady on Etsy who custom makes them. She has every and any scent you can think of, and she will even make it if she doesn’t already have it!
We are giving boxes of Junior Mints wrapped in some pretty paper with a moo.com card that includes a picture of our two Yorkies and a favourite love quote! We LOVE Junior Mints (we’re big fans of Seinfeld too!)
LOL - did I just imagine that the first question was “what is your favour” - I’m seriously losing it if I did. My dress is by Moonlight 
vera wang. it’s weird because at the beginning of wedding planning i said i would steer away from those expensive brand names. but once i tried on that vera, i knew i was in love.
sorry hamiharri - i changed the question from favors to weding dresses.
so I guess I’ll share too - my dress was designed by Anne Barge.
Amsale.
Birnbaum & Bullock
Originally, Justina McCaffrey Haute Couture, but I was able to find someone to make the dress I wanted to fit my body better for less! Glenda Pongiglione (S.F.) has been wonderful to work with and is incredibly detail oriented. A designer friend recommended her to me and I would highly recommend working with her to get exactly what you want and more.
allure
Cymbeline Paris, much more than I wanted to spend but I adore my dress.
My dress is ABS by Allen Schwarz
maggie sottero
Henry Roth - and he no longer is making wedding dresses (per my understanding) so I feel very lucky to have got my dream dress. Off the shoulder, campagne/ivory, beading at the waist, I love it!
Don’t know who designed mine but I got it at David’s Bridal.
Rivini
Vera Wang
Pronovias. Love it!!
sophia tolli
a local (Hawaii) designer, Anne Namba (she does one-of-a-kind dresses that are made from kimono fabric)
Paloma blanca
Augusta Jones. I loved it soooooo much.
Alvina Valenta
Amsale
Justina McCaffrey
Justina McCaffrey Haute Couture. I happen to be at Klienfelds in NYC during a trunk show of hers. I was lucky enough to have a consultation directly with her and her staff who fussed all over me!
priscilla of boston
Amsale
Maggie Sottero!
Paloma Blanca and Simphony Bridal (I have two weddings) the Simphony is a very, very inexpensive version of a Priscilla of Boston design 2902…gorgeous..
Casablanca (I wonder if you’re more prone to answer if you have a “designer” dress…)
Judd Waddell
Demetrios
Palazzo
Mori Lee
Reem Acra
Pronovias! (My dress was the St Patrick brand, which is a lower-end Pronovias brand.)
Maggie Sottero
Pronovias!
Kenneth Pool!
Judd Waddell. He is a master of lace.
Justin Alexander… got it at Filene’s for $250!
Vwidon
Monique Lhuillier. I’m so drawn to her gowns. I was pretty lucky b/c I actually found the style I fell in love with at Saks for a great deal on preowned wedding dresses. Never in a million years did I think I would end up with any hint of lace on my dress…but lo and behold, my dress was ALL lace!
Sue Wong! Thank you Gossypia - you crazy cool shop in Alexandria, VA… where you can get your dress after walking up stairs full of day of the dead sculptures and frida khalo trinkets.
Justin Alexander
(also a $250 Filene’s buy) 
James Clifford
Vera Wang! Its perfect!
David’s Bridal
Junko Yoshioka!
Barbra Allin
Bari Jay
mikaella bridal
Mori Lee! I can’t wait to wear it!!
my fiance’s grandmother.
Melissa Sweet! I love her
Custom - Kiko Rodriguez in Seattle. He’s beyond fabulous!
Melissa Sweet
Casablanca Bridal
the “antibes” gown by Cymbeline
jim hjelm!
Monique Lou (yup, David’s Bridal) at 60%. Yay!
My mom!!
Melissa Sweet
our cousin the designer!
it was modeled after my dream KP dress and was gorgeous!!
oleg cassini
Lazaro
Melissa Sweet.
lazaro for me, as well….i love it!
pronovias
Paloma Blanca!
lazaro.
Isabella- after trying on MANY dresses this one was so me.
Wow - I’m the first Watters bride!
myself, remotely inspired by Melissa Sweet, and with the help of some McCall’s patterns…
Casablanca!
Monique Lhuillier - my dream designer and dream dress!!
Melissa Sweet
Angel Sanchez
Alfred Angelo. Style 1803, I think. I love it! It’s white and has cap sleeves, and is pulled on the side, so you won’t see it bunch up when I sit.
Also, I love that they have plus sizes and different lengths, even though they are $50 more for that. Still better than having it altered at the hem, where there’s all this pretty decorations.
Monique Lhuillier
I did! I found a great seamstress nearby and she’s making it come to life.
Monique Lhuillier!!
Jacquelin Bridal style 9611 and I can’t wait for the day I get to wear it!
Romona Keveza!
Mori Lee!
http://morilee.com/DressDetail.aspx?C=1&D=2105&P=1
Makes my waist look tiny and flat. Phew!
~ Melanie
Joli Bridal
Anne Barge.
Elizabeth Fillmore. It was a sample sale find. I wish I could wear it again.
Maggie Sottero
Casablanca Bridal
Marisa! I love how the fabric of my dress shines!
Mori Lee
Maggie Sottero
Rivini
Private Label by G
paloma blanca!
Monique Lhuillier
I designed my own wedding dress and had it made by a local woman. I didn’t even see it completed until 2 days before hand. It was perfectly me and our wedding.
L’ezu Atelier
Justin Brandon
Casablanca…
I need to get onto the new message boards, I am dying to see a real bride in my dress… Google images only pulls up the ‘casablanca’ model
I’d rather hear about what everyone is doing for favors.
My dress is by Liv Harris at VOWS Bridal Outlet (www.bridepower.com)
i did! or rather i had a dress i LOVED - it was blue & knee-length, so i took it to a seamstress & asked her to make it in ivory and floor-length :)) the trickiest part was choosing fabric, i actually went to a bridal salon and tried on what might’ve been a thousand dresses before i came across silk mikado, which we used
My seamstress is copying the dress Audrey Hepburn wore in ‘Funny Face’!
Yours truly!
I’ve designed my gown, and I’ll be making it myself.
No pressure or anything…
jcrew!
MY MOM! and me too.
Priscilla of Boston
Tried on Vera and all other greats…ended up at Kleinfelds with Monique Lhullier…I can’t wait to wear it this Saturday when I get married!
Romona Keveza!
Davids Bridal
Cymbeline Paris
Casablanca
Pronovias
Melissa Sweet
Private Label by Ginza
Bought at RK Bridal in NYC.
Anne Barge!
San Patrick!
Maggie Sottero. I know it seems everyone and their mother had a Maggie grown, but I couldn’t help it — I tried it on, and that was that!
Monique Lou
Davinci Bridal (i got it at a sample sale for half off!)
Anjolique! First bride with this designer!
Moonlight
wai-ching.com. I got the yowying dress custom made with hand-dyed champagne silk and had red and orange embroidery in the center of the bodice. It was totally unique and I got tons of compliments.
paloma blanca #3802
McCalls. I chose a pattern and my mother made it for me.
Moonlight Couture
Jasmine Couture
Watters
Monique Luo
(Mrs. Bee, any chance we could be allowed to post pictures of our dresses/favors, etc. as part of the comment on this particular post?)
I designed my own dress (with a little help from Priscilla of Boston). And a second dress was bought from David’s Bridal. The third was a Chinese cheongsam that was made by a local seamstress.
amsale!!!
Forever Yours - It’s one of their silk charmeuse informals that we’re ordering in ivory and turning into a halter.
I kept my gown budget small in order to have letterpressed invitations and I’ve never regretted spending under $500 on my attire!
Watters
Paloma Blanca!!!!
Bought an Amy Kuschel dress from 2007 on ebay and I’m going to see if it can work with some alterations. Otherwise I might see if I can afford one of the dresses from her SF salon – she’s my favorite by far.
I did! After trying on lots of dresses, I picked a style I liked, found a pattern to serve as a basis, and then as my mom sewed, she incorporated some of my favorite details from other dresses to create a one-of-a-kind dress.
Christos — and I’ll bee wearing it in about a month!!!
Vera Wang
Maggie Sottero
JCrew I’m preppy to the core, I guess…
Nicole Miller
J.Jennings - English designer. I was the first to try it on at Kleinfields!!! My mother was going to make my dress but I was totally knocked out by the dress when I tried it on.
Forever Yours
Sally Crew
Handmade for me out of silk crepe with a silk georgette overlay by a wonderful local designer, inspired by a Badgley Mischka bridesmaid dress. We got married in Italy and it narrowly escaped being confiscated by Italian Customs officials who thought I was trying to smuggle in a designer dress without paying the tariff!
analea de la fuente
analeadelafuente.com
Me! I’m wearing my granmother’s 57 year old gown and which I had re-created to fit my style. It came out so beautiful! I can’t wait to walk down the aisle in it in two weeks!
Mom! I sketched a design based on various aspects of a few dresses I tried on in stores and liked, and my Mom is making it.
Demetrios.
Aw! I’m so glad something silly I wrote turned into such a cool feature. Props to Mrs. Bee and the Weddingbee gang!
I recently fell in love with a lace Paloma Blanca dress but it was way out of my price range so an awesome seamstress friend of my fiance offered to duplicate it for me for about $1,200 less. I can’t wait!
Pronovias!
Paloma Blanca - check it out:
http://www.chere-amie.blogspot.com
I got my wedding dress from White House, Black Market. It is a tea-length white cocktail. It’s pretty and only $99.
My friend is making one for me as a wedding gift! An empire waist silk chiffon gown (for a destination wedding). I have a white Jil Sander cocktail dress for the reception.
J.Crew! I lucked out by finding the perfect dress on sale for $99!!
JCrew.
Pronovias
1. jcrew
2. amy kuschel
Carmen Marc Valvo
Gowns by Scott - (RI designer)
Watters & Watters
jayne louise (canadian designer) found at Becker’s Bridals (Toronto, Ontario)
Maggie Sottero
Elizabeth Filmore
Vera Wang! Ohh, I love it so!
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Only one other Christos girl?
Kenneth Pool
Maggie Sottero!
I am also designing and sewing my own gown.
Reem Acra, gotta love sample sales!
Melissa sweet Sadie with dusty pink sash. trying to find the right veil!!!!!! yeaks!!!!!!
Vera Wang - $250 - From her bridesmaid collection on clearance
Justina McCaffrey.
Augusta Jones - fun, flirty, glamourous.
Judd Waddell
Christina Wu
my dress by maggie sottero
Camille la Vie (Milpitas, CA) - beautiful!