Wedding Gowns & Bridal Gowns

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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That designer wedding dress from the latest collections of Vera Wang or Monique Lhuillier could be yours – if you know where to look. Sample sales are when fashion designers sell the production samples they used to show fashion buyers. Sample items are essentially overstocks, and are sold at huge discounts. So not only will you get to wear the designer wedding dress of your dreams without breaking your budget – you’ll be right in fashion when you do it! Read on to find out how to buy a wedding dress at a sample sale.

Before anything else, you need to know when and where the sample sales are going to take place! Sign up for mailing lists like DailyCandy.Com, Top Button, or New York Magazine to receive listings and schedules of sample sales.

Sample sales are usually held in season. For instance, sales on fall and winter wedding collections are generally held from September to November, which means you can wear your fall and winter wedding dress right when the season rolls in.

Although some sample sales will ask you to make an appointment, very few sample sales are private. Once you’ve selected which sale to go to, make the right calls to get added to the guest list, if there are any.

You can either go early in the morning or towards the end of the sale – both have their advantages and disadvantages. If you show up early, you’re going to have the best picks and get to have first dibs. Towards the end of the day, discounts increase because manufacturers don’t want any leftover merchandise after the sale. Personally, I wouldn’t mind waking up early and paying a little extra if it means I have a wider selection and a higher chance of finding my dream designer dress.

Whatever time you decide to go, do NOT go during lunch hour (11:30 til 2 pm). This is when sample sales are at their most crowded, with New York office workers on lunch break trying to get the best deals.

You’ll be spending a whole lot of time on your feet, so it’s best to wear comfortable shoes. Wear an outfit you can easily change in and out of, such as a t-shirt dress, so you don’t spend too much time unbuckling buckles, zipping down zippers, and undoing buttons. Some sample sales don’t have dressing rooms, so if you’re a little shy about having strangers see your underclothes, you might want to wear a leotard underneath.

Make sure you bring cash! Although some sample sales accept credit cards and checks, most like cash transactions.

All sales are final, so make sure you inspect your wedding dress for any loose beadwork or defective zippers before taking it to the cash register.

Good luck, and happy shopping!

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New York-based brides-to-be will have a chance to meet Monique Lhuillier in person if you go to Bergdrof Goodman on March 18, 2009, Wednesday, between 2 – 4 pm. On that day, she will be unveiling an exclusive wedding line available only at Bergdorf’s. And I’m guessing that the new line will include the following wedding dresses:

Mermaid-shape wedding gowns are so Hollywood glam, and I’m only guessing that the actual dress itself will contain beautiful and complex beadwork.

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