Should You Wear a Simple Wedding Dress?
Should You Wear a Simple Wedding Dresses?
Since the wed of Meaghan Markle and Prince Harry, simple and clean style wedding dresses have made headway for real brides and those in search of their dream wedding dress. But Should you wear a simple wedding dress?
Brides are falling in love with the clean and liquid-like fabrics that allow the bride to shine. Brides are often told ‘you should be wearing the dress, the dress shouldn’t be wearing you.’ And while we don’t believe a bride should be told what to do, there is some truth to the statement.
When brides begin their search for a wedding dress, they’ll typically start looking on Pinterest or Instagram for inspiration. These sites have endless dresses and showcase them on beautiful women, but it can be hard to see if that exact dress would actually look good on me. Simple wedding dresses are one of those styles.
Movie stars wear simple dresses on the red carpet all the time, but the simplicity often scares women into asking the question “can I wear something like that?” Yes! You can. Wedding dress designers like Sareh Nouri, Ines Di Santo, Anne Barge, and more focus their entire designs on celebrating women’s bodies, especially in their simple dresses. These dresses require attention to detail by adding boning, seam work, and using specific fabrics that are opaque and sophisticated.
Let’s take a look at different styles of simple dresses that you can wear on your wedding day.
Ball Gowns
Ball gowns are often thought of as an over the top dress shape because of their extravagant size. However, simplicity can be added in a range of ways for wedding dresses. Sareh Nouri is best known for her clean fabrics and the use of details within her ball gowns.
Designers shown: Caroline Herrera, Sareh Nouri, Ines Di Santo
Fit and Flare
The most popular of the styles of dresses for Florida brides is fit and flare. Easy to walk around, wed, and dance in, fitted dresses offer an easy and relaxed feeling. These dresses can be accessorized in endless ways and fit every body type. Because of its popularity, we have a large selection of these dresses at our bridal shop.
Designers shown: Ines Di Santo, Romona Keveza, Anne Barge.
Sheath Style
Fit with a flow, the sheath style dress is a dream for Florida brides. This style dress offers the perfect amount of fit and the perfect amount of softness and movement. If you love this style, but feel it is too simple, remember, there are always similar options available with details of beading, lace, sleeves, and straps.
Designers Shown: BERTA, Carolina Herrera, Monique Lhuillier
A-Line
The most classic and requested of all the dresses, the A-line is the most versatile. Available in different fabrics, necklines, and even colors, the Aline is seen everywhere and in every season.
Designers Shown: Sareh Nouri, Theia, Monique Lhuillier
Flowy
Romance, femininity, and boho all are feelings brides have when they wear a flowy wedding dress. Boho style dresses have become a popular request amongst Florida brides. That cool girl / effortless vibe is what we believe the attraction stems from. Flowy style dresses are also requested by brides who are having a destination wedding. This is because these are also extremely lightweight and easy to pack. (see our real bride wearing a flowy wedding dress to her Scottland wedding)
Who should wear a simple wedding dress?
After taking a look at these different styles and you’re still unsure if this is the right style wedding dress for you, consider if you are a bride who should wear a simple dress for the wedding day by going through this checklist and see how it applies to you!
If you wear more solids or stripes than prints on a regular basis.
if you consider your style to be classic, timeless, or effortless
if you love your body and want to show it off! Yeah, we said it. Lace and beading add layers to fabric, clean dresses one to two-layer dresses, so if you want to highlight your shape and show it off, wear something simple.
if you cannot go without wearing accessories. Simple wedding dresses allow you to wear any and all the accessories and jewelry. If you are a lover of accessories, a simple dress allows you to go all out with styling.
If you just aren’t loving lace or beading like you thought you would. Maybe you do wear prints on an everyday basis, but when you are trying on wedding dresses, all the bling and beading feels like evening wear, try a clean fabric with no details.
you want to feel like a classic and timeless bride.