As I’ve said before, there aren’t that many things that truly can ruin a wedding. A death in the family or an ill loved one. Circumstances that prevent someone important to the bride and groom from attending. Natural disasters. Being left at the altar. Now designer Britta Kjerkegaard has proven that there is indeed another way a wedding can be ruined… well, another way a wedding dress can be ruined, and for some that can gum up the whole works.

Brides-to-be beware of the perils of fertilizer! The September issue of Brides Magazine features an image of bride who apparently spilled Miracle-Gro on her Kjerkegaard gown.

But don’t think you’re immune to the dangers of fertilizer over-usage just because a wedding gown doesn’t feature any botanicals, for this Kjerkegaard frock from the August issue of You & Your Wedding demonstrates that all embellishments can fall prey to the powers of Miracle-Gro if the bride isn’t careful.

Quick, kill it with fire before the bow expands to epic proportions!

We’ve all heard of the “little black dress,” but how about the little white dress? The little white dress might be a bride’s main wedding dress or it could be the dress she changes into before arriving at the wedding reception. Obviously the little white dress is best suited to weddings that are perhaps a tad less formal or at the very least a tad less somber. It is not, in other words, for the grand church wedding with the full Mass.

Amsale seems to have pioneered the little white dress concept, or at least to have taken the idea to the next level by creating an entire collection of them in one place. Too bad all of the little white dresses are so much like other wedding dresses in that they have no sleeves, there are a lot of strapless necklines, and the bride would have to be quite slim to pull most of them off. Alas.

But even with all these strikes against them, I LOVE these little white dresses! They’re quite fun and fresh and a little cheeky in that they take the bride into the realm of the unexpected. That’s what I say — what say you?

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From the reader mailbag category comes this very simple question from a certain Jackie:

I found this wedding dress on your website through a Google search. Is there any way you could give me some more information on where I could purchase it or who it is by?

For whatever reason, I did not go immediately back to the original post containing the image, which clearly stated that the bias-cut silk wedding dress was created by Natalia Misslin Designs. I even linked the image to the designer’s web site! However, since I assumed I couldn’t have put the deets in the post itself if people were asking to know more about the dress, I embarked upon a fruitless GIS journey searching for bias-cut silk wedding dresses. Oops!

However, before referencing the original post, I did get to experience the joy of rediscovering Natalia Misslin, who creates beautiful, airy wedding gowns and accessories like these:

And hey, finding pretty things is what this job is all about!

Cleverly named wedding stationery OutVite (who happened to send me an e-mail a while back) sells custom printed invitations and other paper products designed for the LGBT community. As much as I want to cheer them on, I’m just not sure they are truly marketing to a niche market that has been ignored until now. Before I explain why, let me say that I am all for wedding stationery created for people who weren’t cut from the quasi-traditional Caucasian-bride-and-groom-in-their-early-20s mold. After all, my mother is engaged to be married to another woman, and I’m glad to see that she could get a wedding invitation with two brides on it if she in fact wanted one.

While a goodly number of OutVite’s designs feature two men, two women, two wedding dresses, two pairs of boxer shorts, and other graphics indicating that the participants in the wedding will be people who also happen to be homosexual, most of the invitation and wedding shower invite designs could be used by homosexual and heterosexual couples alike… just like most wedding stationery everywhere. Sure, some wedding stationery features a bride and groom motif, but lots more is embellished with simple bands of color, ribbons, logos, hearts and what-have-you, or other images, themes, and/or doo-dads.

Like I said, I’m definitely glad to see multi-bride or multi-groom or multi-whatever wedding invitations, shower invitations, response cards, and all that jazz. In fact, I’d like to see more of it! It’s not hard to find gorgeous wedding stationery, but it can be hard to find, say, gorgeous wedding stationery in different colors and designs that features the silhouettes of two women or two men. I guess that’s why I was a little disappointed in OutVite. I scrolled through seven pages of invitations, and only a handful were specifically geared toward homosexual couples. The rest were lovely, but not what I’d call “Gay and Lesbian Stationery.”

Unless it’s the stationery itself that’s homosexual, heh.