LOVE/HATE: The ‘Lady In Red’ Edition
Not too long ago, relatively speaking, red wedding dresses were the hotness. If you wanted an alternative or colored wedding dress, that rack of red wedding dresses (with traditional or non-traditional silhouettes) may very well have been the first place you looked. But now? I haven’t heard anyone talking up red as a color alternative to white for some time. Silver? Sure. Purple? Now and then. But I’d say the red wedding dress trend has officially petered out.
But it’s still easier to find a red gown that looks like a wedding dress or comes from a wedding gown designer’s collection than it is to find, say, a forest green wedding dress or a yellow wedding dress. I’m sure that will eventually change, but wedding fashion trends tend to change slowly and I won’t be surprised not to find an orange wedding dress on my next trip to bridal salon. So what’s nice is that red wedding dresses are still out there for those brides who want them, and to that I say “Great.” I’d like to see more wedding gowns in more colors, not fewer!
Now back to red. Now that red isn’t the it color for brides who want a non-white (and non-ivory, non-cream, non-shell, non-diamond, etc.) gowns, what do you REALLY think of red wedding dresses? Me? I still love them, as long as they’re not that weird deep red that reminds me too much of band uniforms and hotel drapery.
I LOVE red wedding dresses. I’m ghostly pale – wearing white is really, really unflattering on me. I fully intend on wearing red when my fiancé and I get married – it’s the favorite color of both of us and I look better in it.
Plus, it’d alarm my relatives less than if I wore black.
I am in the same ghostly white boat as Kayla. I won’t say I haven’t fantasized about getting swept off my feet by an Indian man, just so I could have an excuse to wear red (also, looooove Indian bridal suits anyway). I doubt I would end up choosing red under any other circumstances, but I will still ooh and aah over the concept. Love.
The color red enhances feminineness and adds that ‘oomph’ to the lady.
I say red is a gorgeous color, and it’s the one my mother chose to be married in. She even wore scarlet stockings.
I didn’t choose to wear a red gown, but my red shoes were just one of the many nods to my fabulous and classy mother.
Hmmm … I am getting married soon and already I have been looking for my wedding gown. Definitely it is going to be white one but … around one year ago when we started to plan our wedding I was thinking about red dress, more precise; after the ceremony, I was going to change my white dress to the red one and dance our first dance to the song “Lady in Red” by Chris De Burgh. Now I have changed my plans but still I like this idea.