Comments on: Disney Does Weddings

By: sam

sam — Tue, 08 May 2007 07:44:38 +0000

I like some of these wedding dresses designs. Some body here like Jasmine?

By: Stacy

Stacy — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:30:59 +0000

I like the Little Mermaid one and the Snow White one, but the first and second are terrible. Very unflattering. That first one.. if something with princess seams (which are usually terribly flattering) looks bad on a MODEL, how is it going to look on a real person?

By: La BellaDonna

La BellaDonna — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:31:16 +0000

I don’t think “inspired” is one of the words I would have picked to describe this collection, that’s for sure. There is nothing here that marks these gowns as identifiably Disney for the hardcore (and there really could have been several different very appealing gowns for each, without the dresses looking any more costumey than any other bridal dress), nor particular distinguished on their own merits.

Tsk. They should have been braver.

By: belasala

belasala — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:36:28 +0000

Wedding gowns never fit runway models very well…not sure why everyone here is getting so worked up about the fit.

Of the 34 dresses in the collection, I think several are quite lovely (I found them all on the Disney Bridal website). If I didn’t already have my dress, I would seriously think about the middle one in the Jasmine collection or the farthest right one in the Sleeping Beauty collection.

By: Al

Al — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:53:38 +0000

I expected these dresses to look more unique - instead they are just boring with a cheap fit. I guess they wanted to avoid a costume feel. It would be more profitable, and better for marketing as Disney dresses, if they had tailored them with some personality. For example, the little mermaid dress - use a mermaid shape with maybe with a light blue-green tint - since slight color shades like “rum pink” are popular now. Or that recent Disney ad with ScarJo looking gorgeous in the Cinderella dress - some toned down version of that - since that’s what the Disney fans are looking for anyway.

By: meels

meels — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:39:37 +0000

just weighing in… I actually really love this collection - to me it looks a lot more unique then lots of wedding dresses, and I can really see the inspiration. The Belle dress has the kind of skirt you just want to gather up in your hands and run up and down stairs with - sort of like the giant christian lacroix dresses featured in the april 2005 Vogue spread of Drew Barrymore as Beauty with Beast photographed by Anne Liebowitz. Then the Jasmine dress evokes the sheerness of gauzy fabrics of harem pants and veils, with the trim and asymmetrics give it the “ethinc” feel mentioned before. The Little Mermaid dress (though I’m surprised its not a “mermaid” cut - but that might have been too predictable) has ridged chiffon, reminiscent not only of seashells but also the waves of the sea - again the “airy” fabric but with the symmetrics of ocean waves. And I totally love the Snow White dress - the basket design gives it a country-sweetness but the heavy satin sheen of the fabric = the elegance of a true princess.

I mean, I just watched the Little Mermaid yesterday - who would really want those giant puffy sleeves from her wedding dress literally translated? Yikes.

Aaaanyway, I also agree that the snow white model is a little busty, but that’s not the fault of the dress. Though it does kind of look like two apples in a basket.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:58:31 +0000

I LOVE them, I really see the Disney-ness. I don’t like the Jasmine one, but the others, especially Snow white and Belle. Nice Ideas. Not perfect but, cute. I also love Disney a little too much though.

By: Leah

Leah — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 05:55:33 +0000

I get the Disney inspiration when I’m looking for it, but if these were hanging on a rack/in a look book I would just flip past them. Not that I would really want to walk down the aisle looking like I was executing the very wedding I planned at age six, but for Disney buffs it sounded like a cute idea. But they were neither far enough out there into Disney literalism or beautiful and special enough on their own merits to be counted as a success. I would have expected at least a mermaid/fishtail style skirt for the little mermaid… Come on, any of the dresses she wears as a two-legger in that movie are hardly memorable. All in all, I join the chorus of snore.

By: cortneyc

cortneyc — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 00:59:00 +0000

I looooove the 1st one! It’s so Belle and so pretty….with a few modifications. I’m thinking I may have to reconstruct the neckline, but I’m a fair seamstress so it should turn out okay with a couple of gathers and the like. The back of the dress is so pretty that it’s a shame to have the front look like that! Time to change it!

By: beeble

beeble — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:45:14 +0000

I’m unimpressed with the gowns. They seem a little too run of the mill even with their context of Disney. I was hoping that they would be a little more over the top and Disneyish to distinguish themselves from the thousands of other gowns out there.