How to Dress Up for a Wedding

In retail circles, June is known for Father's Day and Weddings. This is the absolute best time to find the best variety of wedding gowns, bridesmaid dresses and cocktail dresses. If its anything to do with a party you'll find it in your favorite department store. The trick is to find just the right dress for the occasion. Here are some tips for dressing the part for your next wedding invite!

The Daytime Wedding

• The Challenge: 

      create a look that is dressy but not too formal

Wearing rhinestone clad jeans just will not do! You absolutely must dress up like you were going to church, because even if the ceremony takes place in a venue other than a traditional church it is still a reverent event.

• The Challenge : 
  create a look that's cool and flowing, but not beachy.
  

  
  

Wearing a flowy muu muu will look like you have a pool party to go to. Instead of a jazzy beach coverup, focus on a dress with more tailoring, such a pintucks, pleats, and a fitted waistline.   

• The Challenge : 
  
  
  create a look that is sexy and ladylike at the same time
  

  Day Dresses
  Flats

  

Being a lady means dressing like a lady. Elegance and sexiness go hand in hand, so you don't have to show a lot of cleavage to get the attention you want. It could be the wrong kind. 

• The Challenge : 

       create a look that is fun and vibrant, yet sophisticated, like you

Choose a color that brings out your skintone. Most ladies look fabulous in any of the blue tones, including purples and teals.  Coral looks great with gold jewelry. Choose a color in the mid range rather than a pale washed out pastel. It's most elegant as a daytime choice. Take extra care when choosing a print, so as to keep in line with an air of sophistication. Avoid stripes and tiny flower prints, too homebody.

The Evening Wedding

• The Challenge: 

   create a dressy night-time look that doesn't takes the sparkle away from   the bride.

Table Lamps
Flats

Wearing your sequins is not appropriate unless the wedding invitation is black-tie or black-tie optional, which is the most formal dress code of all. You don't want to come across like a disco-ball, after all. Otherwise, wear a matching suit of a luxe fabric like shantung, which offers a soft sheen under low light. You can also wear a cocktail dress that has a jacket or bolero that matches. The fabric and jewelry will make the statement here.

The challenge : create a sexy look that is respectful and lady-like.

Black  is always sexy. A fitted knee high dress with heels is always a good choice but other colors can be equally fabulous. Consider deep purple, bronze or any of the deep blues, like sapphire. The darker colors do well at evening weddings.

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The 2012 Emmys might be over, but the fashions from last night are still fresh in the minds of many. This years fashions were very festive and colorful. We saw tons of yellow, orange, red, and light blue dresses on the red carpet. Exposed shoulders seemed to be the night’s trend, with many dresses featuring no straps. Also, long flowing Grecian style gowns and sequin dresses were all the rage.

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Prom Dress Trends for 2012

Blush Gown by Marchesa

Now that the Fashion Week is behind us, we can't wait to see what is in store for us when we head off to shop for our prom dress for the 2012 season. From the looks of it, my guess is we're going to be heading back to a more sophisticated look, dresses that take us back to the glamorous days of early Hollywood, where the men wore suits and the women wore gowns even during the day! That was glamour!



Nowadays, prom girls are lucky. No longer do they have to wait out for entire seasons to lapse before they start to see the up-to-the-minute trends for formal wear ranging from cocktail dresses to wedding gowns and everything in between, especially prom dresses! 

These days, with the universal use of newsfeeds, blogs and streaming videos, the savvy shopper learns of trends in an instant and doesn't want to wait until it reaches her price range. And retailers are quick to respond to the demand, by the time the runway collections are rolling out, the inspired-by ready to wear versions are also available, sometimes the same day!

So the fortunate prom girl can now purchase a runway style prom dress while it is still at the top of its game, not some months later as it was just a few short years ago when I was buying my first prom dress!

Here are some of the trends we look forward to trying out come prom season 2012.

The Peplum 

Taupe Peplum Gown by Badgley Mischka

Sometimes attributed to Victoria Beckham, the peplum is a flared ruffle attached to the waist of a jacket, bodice, etc. It was widely used in lace Victorian blouses with the waistline cinched tightly. 

The peplum style is a great prom dress style for girls who want to disguise a pouch, accentuate their hips and make their waistline look smaller.

Ball Gown by Jason Wu Spring 2012

The Ballgown
The ballgown is  back with a flourish. And that makes our day, since we never really felt quite grown up enough (or warm enough) in the short poufy baby dolly dresses of last year. We so enjoy all the luscious layers of fabric, I mean, if you like a little you are going to love a lot of this bubblegum pink color.

We love this version of the high-low trend that came into its own in 2010. It gives the wearer a flirty walk while keeping it formal. This style is great for women who want to show off their legs. 

Lace

Pink Gown with white lace by Oscar de la Renta

Pink charmeuse slip. White crochet lace. Expect to see lot of lacy overlays this spring!

Flowering Slip Dress by Betsey Johnson

Flowers

Not your mom's kitchen curtains, by far. Betsey Johnson has already brought us the cutesy bouquets from all your favorite crazy quilts, but this year she ups the ante with watercolor splashes of neon tones that say bold and confident, just like us!

Fairy Glitter my Monique L'huillier

Sequins

Oh how we love em. And this year we will have more choices than ever, don't be surprised when you find them on collars, belts, shoulders trim, hemlines. Sparkles will rule the dance floor this year!

Prom Dress 2012 by Sherri Hill

Prints

Patterns added to the fabric in production will add texture and vibrance to prom dresses this spring.

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A true teen queen

Dakota Fanning

For the second year in a row, our favorite "New Moon" star earns a place on the Homecoming Court, but with a twist. 

This year Dakota Fanning has been crowned homecoming queen at her North Hollywood high school. The teen queen (literally) rocked black tights, boots, and a sparkly frock while accepting a bouquet of red roses, a sash with her title, and the coveted crown?

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The 16-year-old actress was voted for by her classmates at Campbell Hall Episcopal High School. Talking to Us Weekly, the Twilight star told of how she felt lucky to be such a big part of school life.




Fanning said, 'I think it was really important to have the high school experience.




'I think that I want [the college] experience as well. I just think everyone always looks back on that time in their life.




'And I wanted to have that. I'm really lucky that I found a school that allows me to do both.'






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Permisson to speak your mind day: Jennifer Aniston

I, for one am not afraid to admit what I think about it. And I hope you aren't either.

With so much negative reaction to Jennifer Aniston’s ‘disaster dress’, even top mags like Marie Claire and NY Mag are laying low on weighing in. Really? You don’t have an opinion of Lacroix, one the most creatively sumptuous designers on the planet worn by one of the sumptuously fit women on the planet ? It just confirms my suspicion that these ‘fashion experts’ are only waiting to see what the masses say, so they can then tell you what’s hot and what’s not.

It seems I am I the only one who thinks Jennifer Aniston is just right? Not too neutral, not too….too.

It’s an inspiration you can’t get sitting at a desk, in a (shared) cubicle, in a big crowded building trying to figure out what’s the next OMG! (who are these people?)Let’s take the latest Jen bashing into perspective. I admit, my first impression of the Christian Lacroix dress she wore to her “Bounty Hunter” Premier in Paris, reminded me of my childhood. When I had a boo-boo, my mom always put mercurochrome on my cut. Many might not remember the color of this wicked antiseptic, but it worked wonders and saved my life. 
 

Call it anything but a fish
You will never see more shades of red than in Paris. Last time I was there, the papier de toilette in the airport was french pink! Not torch red, cherry, berry, venetian, sangria, blush, cerise. Even during the winter, everyone seems to wear a hat or scarf or gloves or shoes in some rendering of the hottest primary on the wheel. Perhaps its to counteract the grayness of the city, or to cling to the memories of the ruby peonies in spring, or the sunset.

I believe it is some of these only in part. The real reason Parisians love their reds is because they love their wines so much. And the grapes that produce the wines.

Wines that do not blush pink merely out of embarrassment or shame. They are not rosy-cheeked brides walking down the aisle with the spotlight shining on them. They are not shamefaced liars with a flush of color to their cheeks caught in some truth-revealing quandary. These blush wines are not Tom Cruise jumping up and down on Oprah's couch. Blush wines in fact are just another name for Rose Wines—and put an accent over the "é" and say "Ro-zay" and not the thorny name that called by any other name would smell as sweet. Rosé is French for pink, but pink wine as a marketing name emits a negative aura without panache and a wine so labeled would probably not fare well alongside a Pouilly-Fuisse or Bordeaux. Even words sound better in French.

Jen may have not gotten it right for American / UK beer and chips tastes but she got it perfect for Paris.

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