RUNWAY: Getting married can be stressful. Actually, let me rephrase that: Getting married will be stressful. The guest list will be a nightmare, you will get in at least one nonsense fight with your significant other, and the seating chart will keep you up for weeks, but figuring out what to wear? That should be the best part of it all.
The stereotype dictates that all women want to look like Disney princesses. That’s certainly incorrect, but one thing that the stereotype does get right is the concept of fantasy. Of course, fantasies are as unique as those who hold them. Perhaps you’ve always wanted to be a minimalist queen, perhaps you’ve always wanted to wear the kind of dress that people look at on the runway and wonder who would wear that in real life, or perhaps you’ve stared at an image of Bianca Jagger’s white wedding suit with her huge hat and thought, God, I wish I had the guts to do that. Well, now’s the chance to do it!
It’s easy to think that just because you are getting married you need to look for a wedding dress and buy something exclusively from a bridal designer. But the truth is that anything you wear to say “I do” is, in fact, your wedding outfit, whether that’s a voluminous tulle ball gown or a devastating white blouse worn with a pair of crisp trousers. In that spirit, here are 69 looks from the spring 2023 collections to get you in a forever kind of mood.
For the Bohemian Bride
For the Practical Bride With a Penchant for Pants
For the Too-Cool Bride Who Wants to Subvert the Notions of the Wedding-Industrial Complex
For the Romantic Bride Who Loves Flowers
For the Artist Bride Who Works With Her Hands
For the Minimalist Bride Who’s a Bit of a Dreamer
For the Maximalist Bride Who’s Absolutely a Dreamer
For the Practical Bride Who Wants to Wear the Wedding Fit Again and Again
For the Bride Getting Married a Second Time
For the Bride Whose Dream Wedding Location is the Chinati Foundation
For the Bride Who No One Ever Thought Was the Marrying Type
For the Bride Who Loves Red Carpet Moments
For the Va-Va-Voom Bride
For the Bride Getting Married at City Hall Then Having Everyone Over for a Fabulous Home-Cooked Meal (Spaghetti) at Her Loft
For the Bride Who Makes the Best Martinis and Will Likely Have Trays of Cigarettes at the Reception
For the Bride Who Loves Alexander McQueen
For the Bride Who Just Wants to Have Fun
For the Bride Who Wants to Be the Bouquet
For the Easy-Going Bride Who Loves a Dramatic Detail
For the Beach Bride
For the Bride Who Is “Thinking Pink”
For the Bride Getting Married a Third Time
For the Bride Getting Married After Many Years of Being in a Relationship (“We Just Figured, Why Not Just Do It, You Know?”)
For the Bride Eloping in Vegas
For the Bride Who Wants to Wear a Suit
For the Bride Who Always Knew She’d Get Married in a Full Comme Look
