Wedding Gowns & Bridal Gowns

Even though Marc Rancy spent his high school years doodling gown sketches in his notebook, he never thought that designing clothes would become his life’s passion. After graduating with a degree in Multimedia design from De La Salle School of Design and Arts, he took classes in fashion design at his alma matter and the Fashion Institute of the Philippines. He then started out by designing gowns for proms and graduation balls until he felt confident enough to establish his own label.

I love his dresses, but most of all, I love his attitude about fashion and his goals as a fashion designer.

“As a designer, my utmost goal is not to create a piece of clothing that people would notice but a piece of clothing that would put on a pedestal the person wearing it. At the end of the day, it is not the dress that should be noticed but the person wearing it. I feel that I have done my job as a designer having achieved that. I want to be able to make my client feel good about herself through what I have created – that the dress is beautiful because she is beautiful, and not the other way around.”

Marc Rancy has a more traditional bridal line, but I thought I’d feature nude wedding dresses from his previous collection. It’s such a lovely, sexy color that doesn’t screan for attention. Some of the dresses may be too revealing if you’re a more traditional sort of bride-to-be, but you can request for more conservative styles.

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Let’s bring the designer focus a little closer to home. I’ve been a fan of local designer Kaye Olfindo’s work since I accidentally found her Multiply website several months ago. In fact, when a friend specified that women have to wear long gowns for his wedding, I asked her if there was any chance she can make me a dress in two weeks. As expected, she was too busy with orders to accommodate my request but even if she wasn’t, it would take longer than two weeks to make a custom dress. Luckily, I was able to find a bridesmaid’s dress from eBay just in time for the wedding!

Anyway, while I was poking around Kaye’s website for an evening gown of my own, I noticed that she also had some wedding dresses on her site. Her work is simple but fresh, and provides you lots of room to have fun with accessories.

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Monique Lhuillier’s wedding dresses are characterized by modern romanticism, and her spring 2010 bridal collection is no different. Featuring structured A-line silhouettes that can easily flatter any figure, each dress is uniquely embellished, laced, or be-ribboned. Sure, Monique Lhuillier’s wedding dresses aren’t cheap at all, but if you’ve got an extremely talented seamstress, you might want to take a cue from these jaw-dropping designs.

This strapless dress has a sweetheart neckline, a lovely draped tulle overlay, and full skirt with lace border. The embellishments are kept to a minimum to give off a look of understated elegance.

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Every time an A-list celebrity gets engaged, she often turns to Monique Lhuillier to purchase a beautifully crafted, whimiscal designer wedding dress. Each Monique Lhuillier dress is a work of art, but good art always comes with a high price tag – sometimes as high as tens of thousands of dollars. Recently, Monique Lhuillier launched a new line called Bliss, which will offer white wedding dresses made of lace, silk, and ocrganza, featuring both her flair for fashion and signature embellishments, but affordably priced for us regular folk. Each dress costs $2,300 to $3,500, which is still rather expensive for a wedding dress. Then again, if you consider the fact that her name and label is synonymous to timeless elegance and style, it’s actually a fairly reasonable price – if it won’t hurt your wedding budget one bit.

Fifteen dresses from the Bliss line will be available to Monique Lhuillier retailers late this year. Although the photos of the dresses have yet to be released, you can check out http://www.moniquelhuillier.com/ for a list of retailers.

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Wedding dresses by celebrity couturier Monique Lhuillier is a big hit among the stars and any bride who can spend hundreds of dollars on a designer wedding dress. Now brides who have more cash to spare can dress their entire bridal party in Monique Lhuillier! The Filipina fashion designer has just launched a bridesmaids collection. As of now you can only avail of them at the Edina, Minnesota flagship store, but they will be available online later this year at her website, www.moniquelhuillier.com.

Monique Lhuillier’s bridesmaids dresses are cocktail-style and are available in vivid hues of green, yellow, pink, coral, silver, and navy. Each dress is in the $300 range but because they come in classic shapes and flattering figures, you can wear them to many events after the wedding.

Click on the jump to view more of Monique Lhuillier’s bridesmaids dresses. Which one is your favorite?

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