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The Wedding Dress, Decoded
Every silhouette, neckline, sleeve, waistline, train, veil and fabric you will hear in a bridal salon — what each one is, what it does, and who it suits.
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The dress and the vocabulary that comes with it, the groom's tailoring, shoes, hair and flowers — chosen for the day you are actually having.
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Wedding Shoes: Comfort, Height and the Aisle
The heel you choose decides the hem of the dress, how you stand for three hours and whether you are still dancing at eleven. A practical guide.
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Choosing Your Wedding Colors
How to build a palette from the place, the season and the light — and why the best color schemes have one strong color, a few quiet ones, and a great deal of white space.
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The Day-After Shoot
Sometimes called “trash the dress” — though it needn’t trash anything. Why couples book a second session in their wedding clothes, and how to plan one.
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Wedding Dress Codes, Decoded
What each phrase on an invitation actually asks for, and how to tell guests what to wear without anyone having to guess.
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Wedding Flowers by Season
What is abundant when, what it costs to fight the calendar, and how to get the look you want from whatever is actually growing.
From the archive
The whole archive →Advice and essays first published on Today’s Weddings between 1999 and 2019, kept as they were written.