Just check out this wedding video it is AWESOME….what a “walk up the isle”. The next wedding I do has a lot to live up to. Unfortunately, I think Americans have more balls that us Brits. Shame, all I can think of is what great wedding photography opportunities there must have been for Jill and Kevin’s wedding photographer.

So come on guys, the next wedding I go to as a wedding photographer, I want something like this. What can you come up with. Make you wedding a wedding to remember! I look forward to being your wedding photographer…

For more on Jill and Kevin’s Wedding Entrance Dance, check their website out.

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The Paris Couture Fashion Week hit the runways this month displaying the 2010 collections from some of the top designers in the world. Forever showcasing the designer’s ideas, fashion on the runway is portrayed as an inspiration of dreams and a wedding dress traditionally closes a designer’s show.

The identity of each designer lights up during these types of couture catwalk shows.

Of course, what is shown on the runways has its limits to the average wearer. So why should the Paris Couture Fashion Week be of interest for real brides-to-be?

Beyond the imagination and fantasy of these couture gowns, you should notice hints of the cutting edge modern looks for brides.

The madcap bridal looks to hit the runway for 2010 would most likely be styles you probably would never consider, but mulling over a collection at any couture show is similar to viewing an abstract painting at a museum. You can look at the innovative and outrageous creation and then after examining the details, you begin to pinpoint elements that begin to grow on you.

For any future bride, a couture show is a learning experience. It may be significant to visualize removing a part of one garment and perhaps adding it to another design you have in mind.

Be drawn towards the collection and look at each bridal dress with an open mind. Try to imagine what segments can be incorporated for a stylish wedding dress that works for you.

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This year the bridal dresses were full of references towards the silhouette.

Chanel

Karl Lagerfeld of Chanel gave the bride a diplomatic compromise. The short mini had an attached panel that became an exaggerated long train cascading to the floor. The bridal dress was filled with rows of inch wide ruffles from the shoulders to hem with a tight fitting bodice complementing the short, poufy skirt. The slightly padded shoulders and boat neckline definitely had a little girl look influence.

Christophe Josse

The designer known as Christophe Josse presented his version of the wedding gown with an exaggerated collar reminiscence of the early Elizabethan era. But that is where that era ended and a new century began. The all-embracing body hugger was sheer and the intimate focal points are protected by embroidered leaves.

Christian Lacroix

Christian Lacroix has always been known for his signature designs of pure femininity. His bridal gown was no exception and emerged as a Russian Orthodox Christian religious icon. Overflowing with rhinestones and tone-on-tone embroidery, this is the gown that any Russian Tsarina would fall in love and want to get married in.

Givenchy

Designer Riccardo Tisci of Givenchy seemed preoccupied with Arabian Nights and Ali Baba including his finale bridal gown. The bodices teemed with interesting metalwork surrounded by yards of flowing chiffon. This perspective of hard and soft can give the bridal industry a whole new look.

Jean Paul Gaultier

A more bizarre bride was never seen, so who else could have dreamed this up but the master of illusion, Jean Paul Gaultier? However, take a closer look at the veil, while lowering the height of the hair; the draping can actually be integrated with a different style of gown for the winter bride.

Many other designers participated in the exciting Paris Couture Fashion Week and all were just as innovative as these five.

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Widely regarded as the most influential young designer in Paris at the moment is Lebanese born Elie Saab and visitors to the Paris Fashion Week were treated to a giant helping of his beautiful wedding dresses from his Winter 2010 collection.

Any fashion aficionado will know the relatively new up and comer’s name and brides should get to know it. Since his introduction in Paris couture in 2003, he has become synonymous with red carpet celebrities who cannot get enough of his designs. And the craving for his work only seems to be getting stronger.

Elie stole the limelight at Paris Fashion Week by presenting not just one bridal gown, but forty-six wedding dresses. He obviously favoured the winter bride this season over all else.

Wedding dress design is where Elie truly excels over the other couture designers. The majority of his collection would please even the most discriminating bride to be. Less is always more in an Elie Saab’s wedding dresses, which are sexy and feminine.

Each dress presented on the runway thoroughly embraced the glittering and sparkling pure white of Jack Frost. Capturing the traditional look for a wedding dress, Elie Saab goes the extra step by adding an impression of individuality; his collection proves that there is a dress for every bride, regardless of shape or size.

The floaty embellishments on the dresses conjure up visions of the first snowfall of Winter. It is as though these dresses are the wardrobe of the Sugar Plum Fairy and Snow Queen.

A modern twist of trendy minis prevailed over full length, with the shorter length skirts varying between pouf, straight and angular. The bodices touched on every style making it easier for a variety of body types to select a dress that is ideal for them.

His stunning and flowing ankle length gowns dripped with simplicity and yet created a romantic image with a subtle hint of sex appeal.

Judging by the Elie Saab wedding dresses introduced at Paris Fashion Week this year, it is apparent that yesterday’s gowns are old hat. His ground-breaking bridal dresses offer a creative direction for forthcoming styles of bridal apparel. Yet his designs will remain forever stylish this season, the next season and forever more and are destined to become classics.

Reaching to become the five star wedding designer of the future, he is heading there brilliantly. Elie Saab is a name to remember.

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But the Le Spose di Gio collection also looks at the bridal outfit with a modern eye, their is a shift style dress and jacket, a short skirt suit with jacket nipped in at the waist and a long line jacket and trouser design. Showing that the label caters for more than the traditional venue and young bride.

The shift dress and skirt suit would make an ideal outfit for an older bride and the trouser suit a good choice for a unorthodox bride. For brides marrying on a beach there are a number of dresses with simple silhouettes and if you have chosen Greece for your destination wedding, a Grecian inspired gown.

There is still plenty to choose from for those brides who want a more traditional gown, though all the designs have a simple, understated look to them, the type of dress which the bride wears rather than the dress wears the bride and each allowing the bride to personalise her look with her accessories.

Below are the Wedding Fashion Files favourite dresses from the Le Spose di Gio collection.

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Wedding planning gone extreme with reality TV shows! The American wedding website,The Knot, teamed up with MySpace fora competition to win a free wedding for one lucky couple. Elle and Tito were the lucky couple to win the competition and you can now tune in each week to see how the couple plan their wedding. Nothing strange there I hear you say. The thing is that the audience, you, get involved in planning their wedding by voting.

You can watch the latest episodes of Married on MySpace on, yes, you’ve guest it, MySpace, to see how the wedding preparations are going.

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Companies who have used this technology include H&M, Levi and Sears and it results in them receiving fewer items returned and higher sales.

Wedding Fashion Files had a play at creating our own virtual models. You can choose from different skin tones and body shapes, then set the height and weight of your virtual model. The facial features, hair colour and hairstyle can all be personalised too. Once you have your virtual model, the next stage is to dress them. The models in the pictures on this blog have been dressed from the section of H&M clothes and accessories.

If you’re a girl who liked playing ‘dress up’ as a child, then you will enjoy this (as I did!) It is a very good idea and would be helpful when deciding on wedding outfits, as once you have your chosen outfit saved, you can send it to friends for their opinion.

So hopefully UK stores will see the benefit of using this technology soon, so we can try on outfits in the comfort of our own homes and not have to suffer the dreaded high street changing room!

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Sophisticated, elegant and timeless they are not only divine examples of wedding gowns, but beautiful dresses in their own right, and I agree that many of them could be worn again and again. Especially as white is the new black. Well, at least for formal outings on the red carpet.

My favourite from their selection is this number from Max Azria, (Far left in the image above) which is an ideal light and floaty wedding gown for a beach wedding and can be customized to suit any wedding theme by changing the colour of the ribbon.

As far as a wedding gown goes, I adore their two mermaid gowns with sumptous embroidery and beading, although I think their reusability is fairly limited.

Unless you are expecting an invite to next year’s Oscars?

See the full post with details of all of the dresses at Wedding Dresses Magazine.

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Gary Harvey was the creative director for Levi Strauss for 10 years. He started designing his own dresses when he needed dramatic piece’s for the freelance fashion campaigns he was working on but his recycling of clothes started before then, when he was at college and could not afford to buy new fabrics, so he would use whatever he could find.

Gary’s first creation was a dress made from 42 pair’s of Levi 501’s with a corseted waist and teamed with a cropped demin jacket. Demin was first made as a work uniform and as Gary says jeans are “made in a fabric designed to last years” but since they have become part of everyday fashion they “are often discarded for the latest silhouette before the end of their useful life”

Since his first dress he has designed a dress from 28 army jackets fashioned into a fishtail cocktail dress. A gown from 30 copies of the Financial Times, which were attached to a salmon pink corset, to create a “tulle” skirt. And a gown made from 10 bridal dresses in white and cream, in both silk and polyester, with beaded bodices. Reconstructed to create a dress with a 6 meter diameter and worn with a bow-collared blouse.

Gary’s moviation for designing his collection “is about re-contextualising iconic, everyday garmets to create new silhouettes” and sees that “renewable fashion is just one way of dealing with the worlds limited natural resources.”

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