Jenny Packham’s Age of Elegance Inspired 2014 Bridal Collection
No designer creates outfits for the modern-day goddess quite like Jenny Packham and her recently unveiled Spring 2014 Collection, inspired by the Belle Epoque, contained everything we have come to expect from this deco-divine designer - vintage-inspired dresses that simply ooze glamour and luxury, sleek sheaths and stunning gowns with plunging necklines, shimmering with embroidery and embellishments….. From the great lady [...]
Monique Lhuillier’s Luxurious 2014 Collection
Oooh it was going to be pretty tough to top yesterday’s post for gown gorgeousness - Karen Willis Holme’s 2013 Collection really is breathtaking….. but if any designer can be trusted to create a collection that exudes luxury and is packed full of wow, it is Monique Lhuillier! Monique’s innate sense of style and understanding of [...]
Understated Elegance from Karen Willis Holmes 2013 Bridal Collection
Today I am sharing the latest breathtaking collection from Karen Willis Holmes, one of Australia’s premier wedding dress designers (you may remember her wonderful modern designs with a hint of old world glamour from my first KWH post) Today’s beautiful photo shoot features sophisticated and stylish gowns that exude femininity, with designs that mix old world [...]
Vera Wang’s Monochrome 2014 Bridal Collection
Vera Wang‘s latest collection is ever the much anticipated event. You can always trust VW to push the bridal boundaries, and to create a collection of bridal gowns to make you gasp (who could forget this time last year, her beautifully bold exploration of red!) And her 2014 Collection unveiled this week at NY Bridal Market is no exception…… [...]
The ‘Made with Love’ Bridal Collection The Latest Treasures from Anaessia
What a day, I couldn’t be more excited!! Not only is it 1 week today until Christmas Eve but Chic Vintage Brides fab new directory (filled with designers, photographers and wedding professionals CVB loves) went live today – have you seen it?? And now I have some of the most celestial and empyreal wedding dresses for [...]
Johanna Johnson’s Exquisite ‘Still Is The Night, Not So My Heart’ Bridal Collection
Oh where to even find the adjectives and superlatives to describe Johanna Johnson‘s latest collection?! So unforgettable was her last collection The Luxor that it hardly seems possible a year has passed since its launch. And if you thought, as I did then, that nothing could surpass it – just wait until you see ‘Still [...]
Gwendolynne’s 2013 Collection from Melbourne Spring Fashion Week
Through her beautiful bridal collections Gwendolynne Burkin long established herself as one of Australia’s top bridal designers. A fashion purist who avoids fashion trends and remains true to her own sense of style Gwendolynne‘s gowns are Art Deco infused, exquisitely embellished pieces of art…… Created from the most beautifully delicate, floaty fabrics of champagne, silver, gold and [...]
Grace and Glamour from Jenny Packham’s Fall 2013 Bridal Collection
Following last week’s posts from the catwalks of New York’s Fall 2013 Bridal Fashion Week (Vera Wang’s classic collection, Claire Pettibone’s romantic collection and Monique Lhuillier’s alluringly dreamy collection), I am taking you back to NYC for one of my favourite bridal designers. I have said it before (and I have no doubt I will say it again, but) [...]
An Alluring Fall 2013 Bridal Collection from Monique Lhuillier
Today I have even more pretty from the recent New York Bridal Fashion Week! This time it comes from couture bridal designer and celebrity favorite Monique Lhuillier, who presented a stunning Fall 2013 collection….. Monique Lhuillier is the designer of choice for the fashion forward bride who wants to look elegant, but with an edge. Monique’s designs have always captured [...]
In Love with Claire Pettibone’s Fall 2013 Bridal Collection
After yesterday’s classic ivory bridal Fall 2013 collection from Vera Wang, I have something a little different, but equally dreamy, from New York Bridal Fashion Week for you today….. Claire Pettibone sent her nymph-like models, dancing barefoot down a romantic runway blanketed in pretty pink and red rose petals. Adorned with silk flower crowns, corsages and necklaces; in gowns of gossamer fit [...]
Vera Wang’s Classic Fall 2013 Bridal Collection
Oh it’s my favourite time of year again, it’s New York Bridal Fashion Week!! And I have been glued to my laptop screen all weekend soaking up the sneak peeks – and they haven’t disappointed! Vera Wang‘s Fall 2013 Collection was everything we have come to expect and love - glamorous, multidimensional designs, with cascading, sumptuous [...]
Kelsey Genna’s Beautifully Ethereal Debut Bridal Collection
I could not be more excited to share the début (you won’t be believe it when you see it) bridal collection of super talented New Zealand designer Kelsey Genna - there aren’t the words to describe how divine these wedding dresses are, so I am going to let the heavenly campaign images do the talking…..
Elie Saab’s Extraordinary 2013 Collection for Pronovias
A completely unscheduled post today! As I was furiously pinning this morning (after almost a year I pinned my 5000th pin today) I came across these and simply could not resist sharing them, so stop whatever you’re doing and come oooh, ahhh and swoon with me over some of the most extraordinarily romantic wedding dresses [...]
Gorgeous Gwendolynne Gowns
I am a little ashamed it has taken me so long to post about ‘Gwendolynne’, particuarly as I fell in love with her designs the moment I saw them. It is no surprise that through her beautiful bridal gowns Gwendolynne Burkin has established herself as one of Australia’s fashion purists; she works with intuition, avoids [...]
Magical Illusion Necklines
Didn’t Prescilla Chan look radiant when she married Mark Zuckerberg this week?! For their surprise, back yard ceremony the bride opted for, who else but Claire Pettibone! The exquisite gown was style ‘Sky Between the Branches’ (from Claire’s continuing collection), which features the most beautiful cut out embroidery, creating a stylishly elegant bateau illusion neckline. [...]
Jenny Packham’s Exquisitely Ethereal Spring 2013 Collection
As a Jenny Packham bride, there will always be a little piece of my heart devoted to her. This lady has such a way of designing and cutting a gown that makes it impossible to describe the instant sense of glamour and grace you feel as the soft, sumptuous fabric of one of her designs slides down [...]
Marchesa’s Marvellous Spring 2013 Collection
Continuing the unveiling of the new 2013 Collections from this year’s Bridal Market, today I have Marchesa for you – and this collection has everything we have come to expect from this red carpet favourite! Full of incredible modern design, fused with good old fashioned romance, design duo Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig have done [...]
Vera Wang’s Beautifully Bold Spring 2013 Bridal Collection
You may have noticed my slight obsession with coloured bridal dresses, and there is always one designer who never ceases pushing the boundary in terms of bridal colours (who can forget her lingerie inspired black and nude collection) and who never fails to to excite with her ever awe inspiring collections, that designer of course is Vera [...]
The ‘Ophelia’ Temperley’s Tempting 2012 Collection
I am so excited about todays post I can hardly stop my fingers from trembling enough for me to type! Thanks to Helen Rodrigues, who is soon to be stocking the London based fashion house, Australian and New Zealand brides can join the long list of admirers of Alice Temperley‘s delicate and feminine designs (a list [...]
Stylish and Sophisticated Bridal Gowns from Karen Willis Holmes
I continue to be astonished at the no end of incredibly talented Bridal designers coming out of Australia and New Zealand. As one of the first I came across when I began CVB, I have long been promising, and looking forward to, a post dedicated to today’s designer – Karen Willis Holmes. Some, with a [...]
The Finest Vintage Inspired Bridal Gowns from NYC Bridal Fashion Week
If a vintage wedding dress, like the fabulous frocks I featured in Exquisite Vintage Bridal Gowns from The Frock, isn’t for you but you still want a vintage inspired wedding or theme, then despair not! Many of the oh so talented designers of today have been drawing inspiration from eras gone by for their recent collections and 2012 is no exception. Jenny [...]
Old Hollywood Glamour and Exquisite Embellishment from Johanna Johnson
Coming across this stunning Vintage Inspired Noosa Wedding …… ……on the fabulous Polka Dot Bride reminded me about the Johanna Johnson post I promised in my sneak peek last month! But first I have to share these stunning snaps…….
Stunning Bridal Gowns & Accessories from Mariana Hardwick
One of the best things about Chic Vintage Brides is that it gives me the excuse to spend hours (upon hours, upon hours…) browsing gorgeous bridal gowns, from the very latest collections of the most fabulously talented designers – like Mariana Hardwick!
Dramatically Downton – Inspiration for an exquisitely Edwardian Wedding
More Downton Abbey-esque Edwardian Wedding inspiration (after my Deliciously Downton Vera post at the beginning of this month) – I know, I know, I am a girl obsessed but look at these incredible photos and you will see why I couldn’t resist one more…….. I found these gloriously vintage Wedding Photos on Ruffled (if you haven’t paid it a visit [...]
Designer Jenny Packham – Queen of Deco
I think it only right that the first designer I feature on my blog should be the designer I chose for my own wedding! Jenny Packham is the award-winning British designer (International Couture Bridal Designer of the Year in 2007 and British Bridal Dress Designer in 2008) now world-renowned for her stunning, vintage inspired bridal dresses – she [...]
