Naeem Khan
Let's start with Naeem Khan, due to how I love Naeem Khan.
Naeem Khan
This is stunning. It makes me want to get married to wear it, and I am not even that into the strapless anymore.
Naeem Khan
The word that leapt to mind here was literally "fetching," as in, "those gowns would be terrifically fetching on you, Yolanda."
Naeem Khan
For the bride who loves lace so much that her reading is actually from Lace.
Naeem Khan
One of those might need to be hoiked up a weeeee bit, but the detailing is gorgeous.
Naeem Khan
Like, STUNNING. After how lovely the fall collection was this season, whatever they're smoking over at Naeem Khan, they ought to keep it up.
Naeem Khan
DRESSES!!
Jenny Packham
Jenny Packham continued to be very "Maybe You Saw This Recently On Downton Abbey CRESSIDA ARE YOU LISTENING?!"
Jenny Packham
This seems like the idea wedding gown for that wedding that takes place in your dressing room after you've thrown a cut-glass crystal tumbler at your hair stylist.
Jenny Packham
Some of these -- all of them, not just Packham's (but especially Vera Wang's) -- could be worn to a formal event that isn't a wedding.
Jenny Packham
It's interesting to see that Packham has kept some further continuity with September's collection via hair and fluffy purses clutched to bosoms.
Jenny Packham
The back of this one is tremendously pretty. It seems smart to have a pretty back-of-your-dress, given how much your guests will see it as you enter into wedded bliss.
Jenny Packham
Sleek!
Jenny Packham
I love that those sequins almost look like a black and white pattern -- though that may be a trick of the light. Regardless: very pretty. I appreciate that Jenny Packham makes dresses that would be appropriate for a wide range of bridal ages. (Don't get me wrong: if you're 65 and you want to get married in a giant, strapless meringue, you go with your meringue. I just appreciate knowing there are options for when Jon Hamm and I run off to the South of France.)
Jenny Packham
This almost has a Hint O Medieval. (Medieval by way of, like, The CW, obviously, but still.)
Jenny Packham
For the bride who wishes to be able to blend in with the tasteful cream walls of her venue so better to appear as FLOATING BRIDE HEAD.
Jenny Packham
For those of you who want to go a little more like underpinings -- although, actually, I think these are nicely understated.
Vera Wang
Vera did not appear to show anything in white, which made the entire thing feel a little, "FOR YOUR AWARDS SEASON PLEASURE."
Vera Wang
I am not deep into Vera, in general. but these are very sweeping and romantic, especially the one on the left. There is SOME young actress who could wear that to the Oscars and look delightful in it.
Vera Wang
Vera's models all look somewhat like Depressed Olivia Wilde.
Reem Acra
I must say, I found Reem Acra's wedding line to be mostly pretty swoonworthy.
Reem Acra
For the bride who demands nipples AND feathers on her big day.
Reem Acra
This, I am not feeling. Maybe I lied about the swoonworthiness of this collection. Maybe I am just a big liar.
Reem Acra
Her long program to Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" moved even the German judge to tears.
Reem Acra
For the bride who demands clavicles and bejeweled head-wound covers on her big day.
Reem Acra
All rightie, that headdress is about to creep down and impede her vision, but this dress is lovely.
Reem Acra
For Your Angry Winter Wedding.
Reem Acra
This is the one I'm going to wear when I'm transported back into time and through a hole in the veil between the worlds of reality and fiction and I find myself in some kind of alt-universe Dangerous Liasions where we meet the Marquise de Merteuil on her wedding day, before she becomes the bitter and awesome Head Bitch in Charge she so desperately wanted to be. That's the second Dangerous Liaisons ref of the day, if you're keeping count.
Reem Acra
Lace. It's not going anywhere.
Reem Acra
This is very pretty. I'm beginning to feel left out, that I don't have my own sparkly headdress.
Reem Acra
For the contingent that demands volume in her gown. (I'm not mad at either of these. They will sell like the proverbial hotcakes.)
Badgley Mischka
If Jenny Packham and Badgley Mischka are enough to make it a trend: ladies, throw out your straightening irons!
Badgley Mischka
Although here, this hair, plus her cardigan, and that facial expression is kind of CRAZY BRIDE ON A RAMPAGE. It's interesting to take a look at Badgley's bridal collection, though, given that this is where they really made it big originally, at least in terms of public name recognition. I once worked on a reality TV show about Dallas (you never saw it), and one of our cast members had been engaged three times (she broke off all three of them) and she kept all her gowns. And they were like a time capsule of wedding trends. One was GIANT Princess Diana style, one was slinky Caroline Bessette-Kennedy in Narciso Rodriguez, and the last was a Badgley, which was the hottest thing in town at the time.
Badgley Mischka
For that bride who wants her breasts encased in bejeweled clam shells on her big day.
Badgley Mischka
This has a lot of drama in the train, which is always exciting.
Badgley Mischka
Texture!
Badgley Mischka
This is very pretty indeed; it must be hard to have to keep reinventing the wheel every season for bridal. Honestly, how many variations can there be?
Romona Keveza
This is classic bridal, and objectively very flattering and pretty.
Romona Keveza
Lace! I told you lace was coming for you. Lace will not be denied.
Romona Keveza
Something about her pose and her veil makes her look like she can't move her arms, a la the Molly Shannon character on Seinfeld who doesn't move her arms when she walks. And who didn't want to see a spin-off in which that character got married?
Romona Keveza
This is totally what I would wear if I were getting married for the 5th time, to some kind of Saudi mogul. Which will probably happen eventually. See you there!