In light of the recent Alfred Angelo store closures due to filing for bankruptcy, manufacturers across the country are lending a helping hand to ensure brides get to walk down the aisle in the dress of their dreams.
For more than 80 years, Alfred Angelo has been helping brides and bridesmaids find their dream dresses, but as of yesterday, the retailer quietly shut down all of their stores. Imagine purchasing your dress for an upcoming wedding and now not knowing if you'll ever receive the gown you already paid for. Or, heading to the bridal salon to pick up your gown to find it shut down with no notice. Unfortunately, that seems to be the reality for brides and bridesmaids across the country.
All too often we hear horror stories from brides who purchased wedding gowns or bridesmaid dresses online only to have a garment arrive that looks nothing like the photo that was advertised. While ordering from online retailers or large department stores might seem convenient and cost-saving, brides-to-be and bridesmaids often end up having to splurge on extensive alterations, find replacements, or go back and forth in an attempt to get a refund — and that’s if the gowns arrives in time.
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When bride Abby Mershon asked her beloved grandmother to be her flower girl, she never expected this incredible outcome. Here, the now-viral video!
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Who says there's an age limit on the flower girl role? 28-year-old Patrick Casey stole the show as the "flower man" at his cousin Andria's wedding.
"They've been together a while, and I started lobbying to be the flower man before they were even engaged," Casey told ABC News. "They loved the idea, and I was beyond excited they said yes once they were officially engaged."
The flower basket he used carried sentimental value — it's the same one Andria carried down the aisle two decades ago when the duo were flower girl and ring bearer in a family member's wedding.
"Losing" your best friend to married life can be a tough pill to swallow — many fear their friendships will never be the same again. High school sweethearts Brittney and Kody decided to poke fun at this idea by including Kody's best friend, Mitch, in their humorous engagement photo:
Hi everyone! The next wedding-planning project I'm working on is our engagement shoot. Our lovely friend Valerie offered to take the photos for us shortly after we got engaged, but my fiancé Gray and I decided to wait until this fall to do them. No one (and by that, I mean me) looks happy and pretty in Florida’s summer weather.
Since our wedding photographer lives five hours away from us, near our ceremony/reception site, we decided to not do engagement photos with her. It was simply too difficult to manage the scheduling aspect of it. But working with our friend has been super fun.
Val and I brainstormed ideas with Gray’s occasional input or veto. I knew I wanted it to be more natural and casual, as opposed to a staged or formal look. That just didn't seem like Gray or me. Here are some factors we decided to keep in mind that have helped with the brainstorming process:
1.Wear comfortable clothes.
Sure, you want to look nice. But, if a ballgown isn’t your everyday style, why wear it in an engagement photo? I'd love some "normal" shots of us walking downtown or in a park near our house. I've also seen some friends from my Penn State days take really cute photos wearing PSU sweatshirts while walking around the campus or tossing a football.
Val came up with the idea to do an outfit change so that we'll have photos where we're slightly dressed up, but we'll also have ones where we're wearing jeans and nice shirts. Nothing too fancy, but I thought that was more "us."
Recently I had the honor of being on the judging panel for the 7th annual bridal gown design competition from New York City’s High School of Fashion Industries (HSFI) in partnership with Kleinfeld Bridal. The incredibly talented students, all from the junior class, created beautiful gowns that highlighted their creativity and design skills.
Photo Credit: Brian Dorsey Studios / Created by: Tantawan Bloom
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