This week we have chosen Anna Sorrano style 1106 as our wedding dress of the week.  This modern and flamboyant taffeta zip back wedding gown features a heavily ruched skirt. The fullness of the skirt can be altered depending on your individual choice of underskirt and is shown here with a medium size underskirt. Flower corsages are discretely placed between the ruches of the skirt.

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Country music star of Lady Antebellum, Hillary Scott married her fiance, Chris Tyrell in New York last weekend.  Looking breathtaking in her wedding dress, their intimate sunset ceremony was attended by close friends and family after the couple got engaged six months ago whilst on holiday.

The proposal was revealed a short while back in an interview with People magazine. The singer told the publication “Our families were close by, but it was just us out on a beautiful deck overlooking a lake in East Tennessee. We had just been on a hike and – in our workout clothes – he hit the knee! We feel so blessed by God that he sent us each other, and we are looking so forward to forever together!”

Hillary wore a custom made Vera Wang strapless mermaid style wedding dress, complete with crystal and pearl beading with an abstract all-over lace underlay. A waist sash belt and a cathedral length veil edged with complimenting lace completed her stunning look. The groom, lead drummer in Love and Theft opted to wear a grey suit by Ermenegildo Zegna with a black shirt and a grey tie. Their first dance was to Steven Curtis Chapman who performed at the ceremony for them.

Your wedding dress is one of the most important dresses you will ever wear. Over years gone by there are many wedding gown superstitions that have appeared, so if you’re a bride to be who won’t stand on the cracks in the pavement, walk underneath a ladder or even contemplate getting wed on the 13th day of a month then read on.

It’s common knowledge that it is considered unlucky to allow your groom to see you in your wedding gown prior to the ceremony itself, although some brides do choose to take their future husband as their bridal wear shopping partner! A bride is advised never to help sew or make her wedding dress, otherwise for each stitch she sews will in turn be the amount of tears she cries during her marriage. In order to bring good luck the wedding dresses final stitch should not be done until she is about to walk down the aisle, with some brides also having a couple of hairs sewn into the gown?!?!

Finding a spider tucked in your wedding gown is meant to bring wealth and if you own a cat then getting it to eat out of your left shoe one week before the wedding will bless your married life. It is deemed unlucky for you to wear your complete wedding outfit with all your accessories prior to your wedding day as is the bride to see her full reflection in just one mirror on the wedding day.

The tradition of marrying in white began in the 16th century, encouraged by Queen Victoria who opted to wear white instead of the royal traditional colour of silver. Before white brides just chose their best dress with the colour being a personal preference. It was also beleived that wearing white would ward off evil spirits and was a symbol of purity and joy. Unless you are of an Irish origin the colour green is thought to be unlucky, a green gown in years gone by was thought to imply promiscuity, the green staining being due to rolling around in the grass!

With regards to fabric then a silk wedding gown is looked upon as the best of good luck, whereas satin is considered to be bad luck and velvet is believed to be connected to future poverty! If the fabric of the wedding dress has a pattern it is thought to be unlucky, even more so if the pattern incorporates birds or vines.

“Something old, Something new, Something borrowed, Something blue”  was originated in Victorian times.  Traditionally a married woman’s garter as the old, the something new to signify the new future together, the borrowed was often an item from the bride’s side of the family and the blue from an historic tradition that the bride would wear a blue ribbon in her hair to show her fidelity.

Superstitious or not with our extensive range of cheap wedding dresses in all colours, fabrics and styles to suit any bride to be it would be surely unlucky not to come and visit us here at the Wedding Dress Factory Outlet!

A wedding dress train is the fabric that falls at the back of the skirt on your wedding gown. All wedding dresses regardless of their style or shape can have a train. There are various lengths of trains from small brush or sweeps to a long elegant cathedral train. Trains can make you feel like a princess as they trail behind you and give a beautiful finishing touch on your wedding photographs.

Bridal wear trains are very much a personal choice. Some brides will want a traditional gown complete with a long detailed train, others will prefer to have no train at all. It may be possible to have the train taken off all together by a professional seamstress if you have fallen in love with a particular wedding gown but feel the train is too overwhelming for you. However, there is always the option of asking your seamstress or dressmaker to attach an invisible  loop to the train itself so when you are ready to you can lift the train and ‘bustle’ it to back or side of the wedding dress with an attached button or your corsetry ribbons. This is a job for one of your bridemaids as it can be tricky to do it yourself! Many brides choose to do this just before the first dance to prevent the groom and other guests from tripping over the train. Alternatively some wedding dresses have detachable trains.

Different types of trains include:

Brush – this is the shortest type of train and is also know as a sweep or puddle. Perfect for a minimalist bride who just wants a slight train.

Court – this train extends around 3 feet behind the bride.

Chapel – a medium length train that is around 5 feet long

Cathedral – ideal for a traditional and formal wedding this train is usually around 7 feet long. You will require some help keeping tidy during your ceremony and whilst your photographs are being taken.

Royal – if you want to make a huge statement then this is the train for you. Generally more than 10ft in length and taking up the whole of the aisle’s width you are likely to require some help from your bridesmaids to carry this as you glide down the aisle to meet your groom.

Before and on your wedding day it is likely that you will be given some bridal wear good luck gifts from some of your guests. It is a way of them being able to share their best wishes with you. These gifts have a long history of being given to wish health and happiness, and a long fulfilling marriage.

You will have probably seen other brides in their wedding dresses carrying silver horseshoes decorated with flowers, ribbons and lace. Horseshoes have been long regarded as a symbol of good luck, originally seen to ward off evil spirits whilst bringing health and fortune. Most horseshoes are made of iron which is known as a lucky metal and the crescent moon shape is thought to be a sign of prosperity.

A traditional gift is a sixpence coin. This originates from the well known rhyme “Something old, something new, something  borrowed, something blue and a silver sixpence in her shoe.” It is believed that if a bride wears each item from the rhyme then in turn would have a lasting marriage and have good health and wealth. Originally coming from Scotland where a groom would place a sixpence in his shoe for good luck, it is now the bride who puts a coin into her wedding dress shoes in hope for long lasting luck and love.

A wooden spoon is another good luck charm that you may be presented with. It was traditional for a woman to be given a handmade, yet beautifully carved wooden spoon by the man who had fallen in love with her. This was to show his love and devotion to her, and if the woman kept the spoon it revealed that she felt the same way about him. If the spoon was sent back then he understood that the feelings were not mutual. Wedding spoons are now given as gifts as a representation of the commitment between the newlyweds.