"Mad Men"-Inspired Gowns

retro wedding dresses

Are you a fan of all things "Mad Men" inspired? Want to give your wedding a retro-rad look? Bring out your inner Joan, Peggy or Betty and consider a tea-length gown. To make the vintage look all the more complete, add short gloves and a stylish cage veil. Don't forget a red lip and some liquid eye-liner for a stylish cat eye. With these few elements, you are sure to create a retro-chic wedding look. See more vintage-inspired wedding ideas dresses.

To find these tea-length gowns, visit moonlightbridal.com, davidsbridal.com, and enzoani.com.

Tell us about your retro-inspired wedding plans!

—Naima DiFranco

A Bride's Heartfelt Thank-You Letter to Her Dad

father kissing daughter
Photo Credit: Unique Design Studios

To My Chief Daddy Officer,

As a child, I never looked at my relationship with my Dad as "different" — I just knew it as unique and special. When I was seven years old, my parents went through a tumultuous divorce, resulting in my mother deciding to leave and move to Boston. Most kids, by default, would follow their mothers. And though some may have had that same expectation for me, at the tender age of nine, I made a decision that one could say marked a pivotal point in both of our lives and paved the way for my relationship with my dad being what it is today.

I made a choice — I wanted to live with my dad full-time. As the CEO of his own pharmaceutical marketing company and now a single dad, he did not run away from the challenge. He ran towards it — he embraced it, cherished it, and gave me a life and parent that some never get to experience.

I am a direct reflection of everything he has taught me and raised me to be, and I'm proud of that fact. He has instilled values and life lessons in what would seem to be an obvious way, but what I've learned is not obvious to most. He showed me by example and then let me arrive at my own decisions (both good and bad). What I never grasped until later in life — he was always strategic, and by that I mean he was always laying down the wireframe for an opportunity to teach me a life lesson. I always felt like he was five paces ahead of me (which, when I was a teenager, wasn't always fun); however, it always was for my benefit.

Pages

Subscribe to BridalGuide RSS