How to Have the Wedding of Your Dreams - Not the One Everyone Else Says You Should Have

Your big day is coming up and it feels like there are thousands of things you still need to do and even more details you need to take care of. It doesn’t help that your mother wants you to wear her old wedding dress and your future mother-in-law simply insists you should wear that gorgeous dress she saw the other day (the one she already got you to try on and you felt it was the most unflattering item of clothing you’d ever encountered in your life.) Your parents want you to have the wedding reception in their garden. Your almost-in-laws want you to have the reception in the room upstairs at the local pub/community centre/country club. Your parents want traditional wedding food for at the party. Your in-laws want that too, but from a different caterer. You’d actually love to wear that stunning Vera Wang wedding dress that made you feel like a princess, have already chosen a wonderful party location and have a completely different caterer in mind. But you don’t want to offend people… Issues like these can add to the stress of planning your wedding. Everyone means well and wants the best for you and your future husband (who might have made himself scarce by now and is staying well and truly out of it) but what about you? This is supposed to be your big day. Everybody tells you so, just they have varying ideas of what your big day should be like. If you recognise yourself in this scenario, I advise you to take a deep breath… and to stop worrying. It happens to brides all over the world. The details I mentioned may be different in your situation, but the pressure from all sides to have your wedding just so is very common. How do you envision your perfect wedding? And what about your partner, how does he envision that special moment when you will exchange your vows? Don’t worry about what everyone else wants for you - fulfil your own dreams. This is your wedding, after all, and you need to be happy with it. Its memories will last a lifetime. Don’t worry about stepping on toes. At the end of the day, the people who offer you all these insights in what they think you should do, are people who care about you. If you gently explain that, actually, you had something different in mind, they will soon come around. And if not, just gently remind them that you are the one who is going to be wed that day. Once the big day arrives, they will be there. They will probably shed a few tears at how beautiful and happy you look and what a lovely wedding it is. Your wedding, just the way you dreamed it would be. The start of fond memories and a happily ever after.

Who Is Vera Wang?

Vera Wang was born in 1949 in New York City. Her mother Florence Wu was a UN translator, and her father Cheng Chin Wang was an oil and pharmaceutical tycoon. She completed studies at Sarah Lawrence College and French Sorbonne.

Before she went on her own, she worked sixteen years as a Fashion Director at Vogue, and then two years as a design director for Ralph Lauren. In 1990 Vera Wang opened her Vera Wang Bridal House. The inspiration for the franchise came from the search for the perfect dress for her own wedding with Arthur Becker. Now Vera Wang is perhaps the best known wedding dress designer. Many celebrities wore Vera Wang wedding dress including Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Simpson, Sharon Stone, Uma Thurman, Mariah Carey, Holly Hunter.

Inspired by her love of ice skating she decided to design skating dresses. In 1994 a simple white skating dress worn by Nancy Kerrigan on the Winter Olympics made her name. Vera Wang continues to design costumes for Michelle Kwan and others.

In 1993, she introduced a line of evening wear. Some of the top Hollywood actresses wore her gowns including Holly Hunter, Goldie Hawn, Meg Ryan, Whoopi Goldberg.

In spring 2002 Vera Wang launched her first signature fragrance Vera Wang perfume very exotic and feminine fragrance with notes of mandarin, lotus and iris.

In 2004 Vera Wang introduced her first men cologne Vera Wang , an elegant cologne with notes of nutmeg, anise, mandarin leaf, tobacco, leather and sandalwood.

In 2006 Vera Wang launched her second perfume Princess, a sexy scent with notes of water lily, apple, mandarin, dark chocolate, amber, musk and vanilla. Princess became a popular perfume from the very beginning, marking selling records of almost all fragrance stores. This year Princess received the Oscar for fragrances 2007 Fifi Award.

This year Vera Wang launched also new rose-based fragrance Truly Pink. Truly Pink perfume possesses notes of freesia, cassis, peony, pink rose, iris and violet wood.

Vera Wang wedding dresses are sold in her Bridal House, better bridal salons, and some department stores including Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue and Barneys. Her perfumes are sold everywhere including some popular online fragrance stores such as Fra. In 2006, national department store Khols announced that it would carry clothing and handbags designed by Vera Wang.

What I Love about Vera Wang Wedding Dresses

There are talented designers all over the world who specialize in wedding gowns and do a great job of creating a fantasy wedding for thousands of brides every year. However, when most brides think of the ultimate wedding dress, they think of Vera Wang wedding dresses. Vera Wang is an American designer who has mastered the art of making brides beautiful.

If what you want is a Vera Wang original, you will pay thousands of dollars for an impeccably designed and professionally hand tailored gown. Most of Vera Wang designs feature hand made beads sewn on with fine lace by the most skilled sewing technicians. The dresses are one of a kind and made to fit the bride who orders it.

Vera Wang also offers a couture line that features designs that she originated and that are one of a kind, but are offered for display in her runway fashion shows. The dresses on the models can be sold, but the gown can also be fitted for a bride not so strangely proportioned.

If you want a Vera Wang dress but do no have the money to spend on an original one of a kind design, she does offer a more reasonably priced line of dresses for the discerning bride. These dresses are made by hand with great care and sold to a limited number of clients.