Your Wedding Dress Determines Everything!

Every Bride has dreamed about their perfect wedding dress since they were little girls playing dress up! Finally once you have the chance to go shopping for the perfect wedding dress, it could take multiple months to find it or it could be the first dress you try on! Every Bride is different when choosing the perfect wedding dress, but every bride knows when they finally found the perfect one!

A lot of Brides don’t realize after picking the perfect wedding dress that they just determined what style of wedding they will be having! The dress totally is the main focal point & main accent piece of the wedding. Your dress will help you determine your decorations, colors, style, etc. If nothing in your wedding compliments your wedding dress than … I hate to say this, but it will look like a train ran through your wedding. Honestly you don’t want that!

So here my rules / helpful guidelines to planning your wedding once you picked out the perfect wedding dress:

·         What color is your wedding dress – White, Ivory or a Color?

If you dress is white, than anything that reflects white is white. If your dress is ivory, than anything that reflects ivory is ivory! You cannot jump back and forth with white and ivory - It’s like the #1 Cardinal Rule! Stick to your color! If you dress is white – everything needs to be white. If your dress is ivory – everything needs to be ivory! GOT IT! If your dress is a color – than pick white or ivory, and stick to it!

·         What is your wedding Color?

Pick one color and one color only! TRUST ME! Having two colors just make things more and look more complicated. When you’re trying to work with two colors it is hard to make sure that those colors match perfectly in the center pieces, arrangements, invitations, etc.  Having to deal with one color will make your life so much easier when planning your wedding details. Now once you have picked your main wedding color – I am going to say this again - stick to it! You will use your wedding color everywhere - in your invitations, flowers, place cards, etc. but your wedding color’s main accent piece will be your bridesmaids!  So make sure they look glamorous because they are helping you and your dress look absolutely amazing, and also making your wedding look put together! I have seen so many weddings with two or even three colors … and honestly when I see that I just want to close my eyes and run away! It becomes too crazy on the eyes and makes it so hard to comprehend everything you see! So stick with one color and you will be golden!

·         Are you going to have SILVER or GOLD accents?

This doesn’t count as another color, but counts as your accent color. Honestly you might not think this is important, but it is! As the planning keeps rolling those colors will start appearing in the table displays, flowers, jewelry, plate chargers, invitations, etc. So you need to choose one over the other right now, so you don’t go back and forth with both accent colors! If you are having a hard time deciding what one I would start by looking at your dress and jewelry, and determine what one will compliment it more. If that doesn’t help than I would look at your wedding color and see what one will compliment the color better. Actually - Silver or Gold needs to compliment your dress and your color, because they really help tie in everything nicely! Again - pick one and stick to it!

·         Are their accents in your dress? What type of style are you going for?

Take a look at your dress and see if there are any hidden accents that you really love? Does your dress have lace, sparkle, hiccups, bows, knots, sashes, etc. Then ask yourself what wedding style are you going for? Are you going for traditional, modernist, individualist, romanticist or minimalist?  You need to ask yourself those questions to help you stay in line with the wedding you are trying to capture! Now take a  moment and  notice all those little details on your again - this will hopefully help you decide on specific styles and designs you want to enhance with certain wedding details – like on your wedding invitations, center pieces, flowers, place cards, the flower girl dress, etc. By taking time to notice all the little details on your dress will really help you connect and make everything look and flow nicely together!

·         Bridesmaids Dresses should SHOW OFF your Dress!

Your bridesmaid dresses need to be different than your wedding dress, but still be able to connect with your wedding dress somehow. This is a tough topic but here I go! Bridesmaid’s dresses are your main accent piece for your wedding color, but they are also there to make you and your dress look good. I know this may sound funny, but I would start creating opposites. If you dress is strapless, than I would think about making the bridesmaids dresses with straps. If your dress is a full ball gown, than I would make your bridesmaids dresses slim and slick. If you dress is A line, than I would make the bridesmaids dresses short and off the floor. See you want to make opposites to help make you and your dress stand out, but at the same time still having somewhat of a similarity. One thing I would think about is making the bridesmaids dresses the same fabric as your wedding dress, so it can connect still. If your dress is satin, than I would try to have satin dresses for the bridesmaids. It is like you want the dresses similar but not too similar, but enough to make you look good! Seriously, anything you can coordinate your wedding together will help make your wedding look amazing in the long run! 

I think you you can see now how your wedding dress is very important to planning your wedding! It’s crazy to think how one dress can determine it all for your wedding, but it really does! Your dress really helps you create the style of wedding that you have always dreamed of.  Hopefully these pointers you will really make your wedding come alive that you always wanted - perfect and well put together!

OX OX ~

Savvy WP