Spring 2013 Wedding Dress Trends

Five trends—color, portrait backs, peplums, lace, and convertible gowns—dominated the Spring 2013 Bridal runways. 

More painterly than ever, many designers splashed their dresses this season with bold strokes of color, including smoldering reds, heavenly blues, and—of course—requisite bridal blushes. 

Last season's sexy backs returned for Spring 2013 with a more demure, romantic attention to delicate embroideries, lace frames, and peekaboo keyholes.

 

Borrowing a popular silhouette from the couture runways, waist-defining peplums injected wedding gowns with a dose of haute style using both structured and softly draped shapes. It's a high-fashion look that's sexy and graphic.

Duchess Kate's royal wedding gown proved its influence after almost every collection this season showed some variation on lace unlike anything your grandmother would have worn. This graphic, floral fabric felt fresher than ever, re-worked into sexy silhouettes with a dash of tradition. 

With more brides than ever calling for second party dresses, designers answered that demand with convertible styles that use removable skirts, trains, and capes to create a distinct reception look. 

Planning Brangelina's Wedding

If you were a wedding planner for the Jolie-Pitts, what ideas would you choose and how will you execute it? Bearing in mind the uniqueness of this couple.Here are a couple of  ideas for a Brangelina wedding by concocting every detail that makes this couple's identity from the dress to the China to the stationery.The result of the vision roots  from the couple having movie careers, six kids and their involvement with international charities.

The Venue would be in the Chateau Miraval, which was bought by Brad and Angelina in the south of France. An out doors wedding  in its enchanted garden would look just divine.


The Lounge area will have contemporary styled sofas, with pillows that add just the right amount Brangelinaness if there was  an adjective as such. Jason Wu's line for pillows has the perfect combo of off white colored background with patches of black lace that compliments the couple's edgy taste.


The Bouquet of the bride would be white calla lilies,as its slender and chic, just like Angie's style on the red carpet. Given Angelina's slightly broody past, callas are sometimes associated with wakes and funerals.


The Centrepieces would be dark colored vases filled with white  flowers a la classic black -and-white elegance .To induce a bit of boldness, the dinnerware used would be that of Hèrmes collection of  Balcon du Guadalquivir, that combines French elegance with a dab of the extrinsic giving off an ambassadorial ambiance.


The Cake would be a macaroon tower filled with crispy and decadently cream filled macaroons instead of the traditional wedding cake.


The Stationery, Bernard Maisner, the fancy  decoration and old-fashioned gothic font with its blood-red wax seal are  at once bourgeois and mysterious just like the couple themselves.


The Menu, a reflection of their adopted children of Vietnamese and Cambodian origins. Asian /Cajun fusion that is deep fried and served on the impossibly fine china.


Brangelina's personal flair  would be embedded all over the wedding for their love of ebony, ivory and a touch of exoticism. 


***Source: Brides