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Post Your Wedding Dresses Here! It's Valentine's Day :)

Angie

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I'll start. This is 1996 - so 16 years ago.

I designed my own dress, had it made for a pittance with discontinued stretch sateen fabric of which I got the last 8 metres. Unfortunately the frock was passed onto the Salvation Army accidentally, so I don't have it any more. In this photo, I was telling Greg that the rose petals were falling down the front of my frock, which he thought was hilarious.

Over to you.

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MsMary

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Beautiful, Angie!

I bought mine in a country/western store across the street from the courthouse while we were waiting for them to type up our marriage license! I especially loved my wedding boots! This is 1999.

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Kristin SF

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I LOVE THIS IDEA!!!!! No photos from our SF City Hall wedding, we can't find the disk, but can't wait to see everyone's pics from their special day.

GREAT IDEA!

nancylee

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I love your photo, Angie. Simply gorgeous.

Rock on, MaryK!

No photos of our wedding are downloaded (it was in 1985...ancient history!), so I snapped this one from our wedding album just now (ignore the weird reflection effect on DH's jacket). Basically, I wore Princess Diana's wedding dress and flower garland veil with less pouf and a much shorter train. That was the look back then.

** Also added a caricature my sister's boyfriend (at the time) made for us as a wedding gift. He's a professional cartoonist now.....but back then he was a student.

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Anonymous

Here you go, 1999. I actually envisioned myself in something straight, more like Angie's dress, but my mom wasn't feeling it when I tried those styles on. I wasn't all that picky about the details, so I went with this one as a compromise. In hindsight, I didn't fill out the top of this one all that well, but c'est la vie!

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Thistle

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DH proposed to me in September and I was staring my MBA (while working full time) in May. We ended up getting married in Hawaii in March, just the two of us, and had a backyard BBQ in the summer that his parents planned as I was up to my eyeballs with work and school.

Because I needed a dress so fast, and I needed one short enough to not drag on the beach, I ended up having a seamstress make mine. She used a special fabric that woudn't wrinkle on the airplane rather than the silk I thought I wanted.

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RoseandJoan

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Sorry about the quality, it's a photo of a photo taken in bad light.

We had a Vegas wedding eight years ago

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Echo

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What a fun thread! I adore wedding pictures; everyone looks so beautiful! MaryK, I especially love your boots.

This is from 1997, and yes, DH had a mullet - and a shaggy one at that! Oh, and I wore some boots, too. DH is 6'8", so I wanted to go as high as possible in the footwear department!

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Anonymous

Thistle - Our dresses look very similar!

RoseandJoan - LOVE the simplicity of your dress, sort of like Carolyn Bessette Kennedy's.

Angie

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WOW, Echo. Hubs is tall! And you're weraing MAJOR heels. So fun

Mary, I remember your killer boots

Thistle you look like a Princess.

Jules, you look like an graceful elf from Lord of the Rings.

Anne, you give Jackie O a run for her money! My frock wasn't straight btw. It was A-line with a very long train that I attached to my finger with a loop so that I could still walk fast.

Nancylee, how fably Princess Diana your dress was!

Raisin

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Hmmm, I don't seem to have any digital pics of my wedding. I'm enjoying looking at all the rest though! Maybe I can go copy one tonight when I get a chance. We don't have much for pictures, half the film got ruined. Also my dress was lousy, I was 20 and had no money, and our wedding was at my parents house! Lol, but I never wanted a church wedding!

Emily

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How fun! Everyones' photos are so beautiful.

I got married pretty recently - in August 2011. I didn't really want strapless or anything too extravagant, but I ended up in a strapless gown with a matching bolero and more train than I knew what to do with. I still love it, though.

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Aziraphale

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Angie, from that picture, your wedding dress looks a lot like mine. Did it have elbow sleeves? Mine had a square neckline too, and an empire waist, and was column-like. I wanted to look a bit like Elizabeth Bennett from Pride and Prejudice. The BBC series came out around the time I got married. I had a veil, though, and no necklace. Drop pearl earrings only. I got married in 1998, so only two years after you (and I'm two years younger, incidentally).

I designed my own dress too! Or, rather, there was a young local designer whose gowns I liked, and I asked him to combine elements of three separate dresses. It worked out really well. It's not like I'm remotely capable of sewing anything on my own.

I will try to post a picture next week. You'll see what I mean.

Angie

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That's beautiful, Emily. And you did get married very recently!

Raisin, some of the best weddings I've been to were on less than a shoestring budget. A fancy and expensive wedding does not make the event more special. AT ALL! I bet your wedding was fab

Angie

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High five, Aziraphale! Fun similarities we share :). My sleeves were long - and IN SUMMER too. But it was by the seaside at night when it's always cool, and arctic a/c makes me very unhappy - so of course my sleeves were long. I hate to feel cold. I can't wait to see your frock!

Suz

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Oh - what a great idea! You all look so incredibly lovely in your gowns.

I have no digital pics of my wedding, either. I will see if I can rustle something up.

Nadya

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Here are a couple of scans from our wedding in 1989. My dress and shoes were off-the-rack at Nordstrom (downtown San Francisco) and my veil from a bridal outlet in the old SF garment district. Yes, even our wedding rings were from Nordstrom!

Raisin: We got married at my parents' house, too!

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Mochi

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Figures I'm out and only have an iPhone, but if you search YLF for Mochi and kimono, the top hit will lead you right to a pic. You all look radiant!!!

Anonymous

I was in grad school when I got married in 2001. I had my dress made from a Hallowe'en costume pattern out of some oyster coloured dupioni silk I bought. The dress has buttons down the back and sleeves. I made the head dress!

I wanted my frail and elderly grandparents at my wedding (they were 87 and 89 at the time), so we ended up having it at a schoolhouse a kilometre and a half from their house. I didn't care -- my mum organised the whole thing on a total shoestring budget, I found my bridesmaids silver ballgowns for $20 each. We got married outside by the river in June and it was messy and perfect!

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Desmo April

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1996 in Jamaica.

The details are a little blown out in this pic. My dress is actually two pieces, a guipure lace top and a chiffon skirt. I designed it and mom did all the work.

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Classically Casual

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Such a fun & romantic thread for today!

My wedding was in 1967 when the dresses were short! We were in college and got engaged at Thanksgiving & married during Christmas break. Our wedding was small but fun, and we took the train to Sun Valley to ski for our honeymoon. A friend took the pictures with a camera called an Instamatic, which at the time was cutting edge. This all took place just as "the pill" came into being & the sexual revolution was beginning.
And the music of our youth was very good....:) We've just celebrated our 45th anniversary. Life is good!

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sarah

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Angie, what fun!

Oh, gosh, I need to scan my wedding photos, too.

Here are some "snapshots" of the photographs that are in our living room. We were married in 2001 - in the woods, literally, so my dress is appropriately a deep mossy green velvet. And I sure was a few pounds lighter in those days ; ).

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milehighstyle (Linda)

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You are all so beautiful! I love this thread. I got married on vacation in San Diego in 1999. We had the officiant take a snapshot of us, which is on my living room wall. I wore a black sleeveless top and a black and tan Aztec print wrap skirt. We don't even know the people who signed our marriage certificate as witnesses. I think one was working construction on the building next door. Hubs and I are both really shy and didn't want a wedding - just wanted to be married.

Anonymous

Oh, this thread is almost as romantic as the heart-shaped turkey burger I made my husband for lunch, ha ha!

I took a couple of snapshots of wedding album photos, so the quality here isn't great. We were married in 1997, pre-digital era. My dress was sleeveless and backless. I wore long gloves, a veil, and satin Mary Jane pumps. I detached the train for the reception.

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Suz

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Just loving this thread. Ceit, you had the medieval thing going on even back then....love your dress...love ALL the dresses and how beautiful you all are.

I am living proof of the wisdom of hiring a professional photographer. Not once, but TWICE did I make the mistake of failing to hire one...and as a result, the pictures from both weddings (yup, two) are sad, sad, sad. For my second wedding, our main "photographer's" camera did not even have film...and another friend's broke just before the wedding. So nothing is good quality.

I hope it is not bad luck to share pics from Wedding 1 as well as Wedding 2.

For Wedding 1 I wore my mother's gown, made circa 1950. I loved the Mandarin collar and the buttons. We were married at the chapel of our college, where we met. Outside in the sun-dappled quad my husband fussed with his new ring - an omen? Perhaps. But it was a wonderful day and I have happy memories of it.

Wedding 2 took place in 1999 in our backyard. We were married by one of hubby's former students. We made almost all the food ourselves. It was a broiling hot day and I wore a dress off the Banana Republic sale rack. Those were my non-fashion, pre-YLF days! But it was comfortable and easy and I felt fine. Also sun-dappled (so nearly invisible). But you can see my pixie cut in the baby photos - that is a friend's baby.

For some reason I couldn't load all the images. Did my best with what I had!

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Anonymous

What a lovely idea for a thread! I don't have digital photos either so I quickly took a photo of a photo. Sorry about the fuzz from the camera flash. My DH proposed a year to the day after we met on 6th Dec 1998; we married the following year in May. We only had 32 guests but it was an unforgettable day! As you can imagine I made my own dress. It was pure silK and I got the idea for the bustle type back from a photo in a bride book. We honeymooned on the Greek island of Corfu. Happy days!

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rae

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What a FUN thread for today! The wedding pics are making me all teary.

I found my wedding dress a week before the wedding, with much help from YLF here and on this emergency thread I will never, ever forget .

The dress is by BCBG, shadow stripes with sheer straps.

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Raisin

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Such great photos here! Everyone looks so pretty. Love this!

Ok, mine is from 2004, at the ripe age of 20...hehe. I look a bit different. VERY long hair, and about 20lbs bigger (undiagnosed hypothyroidism at this point). Poor DH still wishes I were this size......I looked fine, but felt like a bag of crap!!

My favorite is the second pic because it was taken of us unposed...we were unaware, and it's so cute to me! Sorry like I said I have no digital pics, so these are pretty poor copies of my few real ones....my dress is really simple. I had about $300, I think it's a prom dress! I just added 3 so you can see my crazy hair then! That's my grandfather and his girlfriend with me in #1.

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Anonymous

What a fun idea for a post! We never digitized any of our photos, so I had to take a photo of the photos with my iPhone.

Here we are 16 years ago to this day!! Because we wanted to get married on Valentine's Day, we got married on a Friday and a lot of people couldn't come. The wedding was small, only 50 guests. But we rented out the yummiest Spanish restaurant for our reception. Everyone still talks about the food!

I remember going to the gown shop with the intention of getting a simple white suit and came out with a full-length beaded gown. Pic 1 is of me and my dad, because you can see the dress much better in this one. Pic 2 is me and DH.

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Anonymous

Heh, Rae, my hair was that long when I met my husband at university -- he would love if I had long hair again!

I love seeing all these pictures

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