What will our children make fun of???

[lalalola]

As I was picking out BM dresses and my dress I was concerned about if I would always like my dress and if my future children would make fun of me......like I do with my mom and the other 80's brides......

What current trends do you think we will look back on and be like "WhyTF did I choose that???"

[*Sarah*]

Maybe color in dresses??? Its hard to predict though!!!

[~*Kate*~]

OMG, have you seen my WDS? We have given our future children an entire arsenal of ammunition just in the dancing pictures alone. :lol:

Our BM dresses might look dated in the future, but I think my dress will hold up okay... :shuffle:

[Raychel]

I am sure my pick up style skirt will be way dated. I fell in love with them before they hit the whole huge popular frenzy that they became and then ended up with one around the time it was in fact popular.

[Sk8ermaiden]

I do think the pickup skirts will be one, and maybe color accents. And I think that eventually this strapless thing will have to fall out of vogue.

[Poloke]

Pick up skirts, color accents, strapless gowns, Tea length gowns (for bride & bridesmaid alike)...

Honestly, I think no matter how classic we may think we look, 10 or 20 yrs from now it will still look dated.

[Celeste]

I think strapless gowns will be the real marker of late 90's and early 2000's bridal "looks" and will become really dated eventually.

[Sk8ermaiden]

How could I have forgotten the corset backs? Many of them are very pretty but they're such a big trend, that I think they'll seriously date dresses.

[jillian]

Probably my tiara.

[Trinia]

Probably the color in my dress, My veil, The color theme

[Sabby12s]

Probably the fact that we got married in Vegas and had Elvis at our reception!

[Raychel]

Oh yeah...I forgot how big of a trend tea length dresses for brides & bridesmaids became.

And definitely corset backs. My dress had that has well...so it will be really dated :giggle:

[Sk8ermaiden]

I'm not totally sold that tea length will go out of style. My mom had tea length dresses for both of her weddings, in 1979, and 1991, and both times tea length dresses were readily available and not really unique. I've always thought her dress from 1979 was particularly beautiful/classic. (The '91 one had a horrible '80s shoulder pad/collar thing going on. :dunno:

[*TanyaJeanne*]

I think the color accents will be one of them that will go out of style too.

[Mrs. Bebe]

I think our society's fascination/pseudo obsession with weddings in general will likely start to fade away. You turn on the tv and you're inundated with Bridezilla, and other wedding shows. Sometimes it seems that everything is wedding oriented. I think the rise of destination brides is an indication that simplicity will become the next trend- the next generation of brides seems to want to forgo all the stress and complication of it. So anything over the top will very possibly sem very ridiculous to our children.

JMHO

[Poloke]

How about all the pre-wedding "future mrs. so and so" gear...or the just married flip flops?

[nikkiscott]

Not sure what my future children will make fun of. Knowing me and how I make fun of things of my parents, I can almost say that anything goes, with the making fun department. Cause no holds bar with me. But then again I like to think that my dress will never go out style. :lol:

[ka92611]

How about all the pre-wedding "future mrs. so and so" gear...or the just married flip flops?

I already think these are kinda funny...so I agree with you. :lol:

[Raychel]

I'm not totally sold that tea length will go out of style. My mom had tea length dresses for both of her weddings, in 1979, and 1991, and both times tea length dresses were readily available and not really unique. I've always thought her dress from 1979 was particularly beautiful/classic. (The '91 one had a horrible '80s shoulder pad/collar thing going on. :dunno:

I definitely don't think that they will go out of style. But the past couple years it has been all the craze it seems, so I don't think the trend will last, but the style will still remain a classic.

How about all the pre-wedding "future mrs. so and so" gear...or the just married flip flops?

Oh yeah :lol: I think that falls in the category about what Zita was saying about the recent wedding culture/obsession. When I first started planning most of that stuff was only to be found ordered online...and now I go into VS and they have their "sexy little bride" hoodies...tshirts, ect and it is just like yeaaaaaaah lol

[ka92611]

I'm not totally sold that tea length will go out of style. My mom had tea length dresses for both of her weddings, in 1979, and 1991, and both times tea length dresses were readily available and not really unique. I've always thought her dress from 1979 was particularly beautiful/classic. (The '91 one had a horrible '80s shoulder pad/collar thing going on. :dunno:

I agree. Tea length wedding dresses have always been in style, as far back as the 1940's if the pictures I've seen are correct.

[Sk8ermaiden]

I definitely don't think that they will go out of style. But the past couple years it has been all the craze it seems, so I don't think the trend will last, but the style will still remain a classic.


So this is interesting. I totally get what you're saying now. Yeah, they may not stay a trend. But they're so popular in part because many weddings are getting more casual - destination and garden weddings, etc. Many people on this thread believe that the pomp and circumstance and fascination with weddings will die down (I really don't think that is true at all), but if that did happen, really tea length will just become more and more popular.

**Please note that I am not an argumentative person generally. I just really like talking about this stuff. :lol:

[serda23]

The only thing I really think will be made fun of are the "mermaid" dresses.
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i307/serda23/for%20people/modernWedding1a.gif

[lalalola]

Oh yah, the mermaid dresses! That will totally be made fun of!

[Poloke]

Dresses w/ feathers, fur and other outrageous details.

[jillian]

The only thing I really think will be made fun of are the "mermaid" dresses.
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i307/serda23/for%20people/modernWedding1a.gifWill be? I make fun of that now.

[lalalola]

of course you do jillian! :)

[jillian]

And I have every right to do so. My friend had me try on a mermaid style BM dress.

[jillian]

I'm still trying to repress that memory.
It wasn't as dramatic as that one. But it was fitted and flared.

[~Sara~]

And I have every right to do so. My friend had me try on a mermaid style BM dress.


I'm wearing a BM mermaid dress in October! :huh: I must love my cousin a whole lot...

[Winter_Bride]

Melania's wedding dress...
http://employeecomedy.typepad.com/melania.jpg

I apologise to anyone who thinks it's gorgeous, but I just don't understand it. It's too... busy... for me!!

[Sk8ermaiden]

And it weighed as much as she did. I think her dress is made fun of now as much as it will ever be....kind of like runway fashion.

[Winter_Bride]

We're on the same wavelength, Kellie! :lol:

Oh, and leggings, ankle boots, and high-waisted pants. Skinny jeans!

Anything major trend that is back in style now because it is "retro" will eventually go out of style again and our kids will look back at our photos and think :doh:

[Sk8ermaiden]

God...the day the '80s came back in to style I lost all interest in fashion. That was the most unfortunate decade fashion-wise.

[Winter_Bride]

:clap: ITA!!

[~*Kate*~]

What? You don't want to see the side ponytail make a resurgence? :snob:

[ginny]

What? You don't want to see the side ponytail make a resurgence? :snob:

Ahhh...the side ponytail...the one that took over my head for my 4th grade school pictures :hehe:

[~Sherry~]

:laugh3:

I'm not sure what to look at in the picture you posted Erie. It's all to :errrr: for me!

[Sk8ermaiden]

Melania's wedding dress...
http://employeecomedy.typepad.com/melania.jpg

I apologise to anyone who thinks it's gorgeous, but I just don't understand it. It's too... busy... for me!!

The 50 lb. gown required four fittings, one that took four hours. The dress is actually two dresses. One dress supports the 50-pound overdress.

More details on the big Dior dress: It's made of more than 300 feet of white duchesse satin, with a 13-foot train, crowned by a 16-foot veil. It took 1,000 hours to make, and 550 hours to embroider more than 1,500 crystal rhinestones and pearls in a swirl pattern. The made-to-measure dress required the skills of all 28 seamstresses in the Dior Couture atelier. The retail price tag is estimated to be in the $200,000 range, though it is likely that the cost was significantly less for Knauss, because of the publicity associated with Trump.

It was so wide she had to sit on a bench to eat dinner.

I can't find the article anymore, but I remember reading that the dress was so big and heavy that they had to hold it up, and have Melania climb up onto a chair and jump into it.

Talk about excess. :p

[~Sherry~]

:faint:

[Raychel]

Uggh total overkill. Maybe if she had just taken ONE of those shock 'em features and ran with it...instead she had to have them ALL

[ginny]

She had to jump into it to get it on?! This is one of those things that you have to say "You know your wedding dress is too heavy when..."
I couldn't even imagine trying to wear a 50lb dress, mines a little under 7 and I have a hard enough time already!

[KelciAlexandra]

lol i heard that they MADE her eat before the wedding so that she would have enough strength to walk down the aisel without collapsing... now i think thats a bit overkill

[PrairieDawn]

Mermaid gowns were so HOT when I married the first time in '89. A few years later we laughed at them... but they are back. Organza was another disaster of the 80's... or was it? Its back! Granted, both are much prettier than they were back then, even *I* will admit to that. LOL

What will my kids -- or grand kids -- laugh at about my 2003 wedding? Probably the corset-style bodice on my gown. Was I wearing underwear? And the fairy wings my flower-girl daughter wore. We had a fairy theme. How about the fairy cake topper? Or the beads in our boquets? I don't know. I don't care. We had a lot of fun doing it and we made a lot of memories. Isn't that what its all about?

You know... my parents married in '66 and none of it is really laughable now. How did they get off so easy?

...Pam

[Sk8ermaiden]

Oooh...pretty as they are, bead stems might be something that dates us.

The monogram. on. everything.

[jillian]

My parents were in their friends' wedding back in the 70's... the BM's wore the same dress but in different colors: pink, blue, yellow, greeen and the GM wore matching tuxes! The color of the tux matched the dress and the tux shirt was ruffled. You know like in Dumb and Dumber? My parents wore yellow.

[Jaci]

God...the day the '80s came back in to style I lost all interest in fashion. That was the most unfortunate decade fashion-wise.

The only good thing to come out of the 80's?

Me.

That is my quote and I totally need a blinky that says it.

[PrairieDawn]

OMG you gals make me feel so flippin' old! LOL The 80's were great. We had Princess Di and Duran Duran and pearls with sweat shirts and Madonna (yah, you still have Madonna) and back then brides wore all black gowns and all pink gowns -- bright pink -- to tick off their mothers and calla lillies were newly acceptable as wedding flowers (not just for funerals), but that ticked off Gramma.

...Pam I am

[~*Kate*~]

Pam, you are so funny. :lol:

And I used to laugh at my parents orange and brown wedding. Guess what color wedding my sister is having?? :laugh3:

[Sk8ermaiden]

Pam, you are so funny. :lol:

And I used to laugh at my parents orange and brown wedding. Guess what color wedding my sister is having?? :laugh3:

And me too!!! :lol:

My mom's second wedding's colors were peach and pastel green. That seems SO dated to me now. I wonder how long until that's back in style?

[~Sherry~]

:laugh3: I love Duran Duran and the old Madonna! Not to mention Puffy Paint?! Was that ever involved in weddings, :lol:

Peach and pastel green remind me of a horrible outdated bathroom and/or kitchen :laugh3:

[Heather107]

I'm also having an orange and brown wedding!

The girls are wearing chocolate brown dresses and the guys are wearing orange vests and ties.

[Angela]

I think of my aunt and uncle's wedding photos from the 70's, and crack up...the guys were in ALL white, and the BM wore these hideous orange and brown patterned dresses that looked like some old lady's drapes. :laugh3:

But then I look at my grandparent's photos some 30 years earlier, and don't laugh at anything.....it's just classic and gorgeous.

With mine.....hmm...I'm sure that my cake'll be laughed at, and I'm sure other stuff. I liked it though, so whatev :)

[Angela]

For the record...I love orange and brown. :)

I love orange and brown too, but man, if you could see these dresses.....:gaah: :laugh3:

[ginny]

I love orange and brown too, but man, if you could see these dresses.....:gaah: :laugh3:

If they're that bad I think you need to scan in some pictures :)

[Angela]

If they're that bad I think you need to scan in some pictures :)

I'll have to ask my aunt for one. I mean, seriously....it's this hideous flower print. My aunt had the dresses made for her girls. It looks like she stole a bunch of really ugly 70's curtains and paid someone to make the dresses. :rofl:

[ginny]

I'll have to ask my aunt for one. I mean, seriously....it's this hideous flower print. My aunt had the dresses made for her girls. It looks like she stole a bunch of really ugly 70's curtains and paid someone to make the dresses. :rofl:

My mom had a flower print as well, also the bridesmaids carried their flowers in baskets and they wore these big garden hats! :hehe:

[PrairieDawn]

Aren't those big hats in style in England now?

[ginny]

Aren't those big hats in style in England now?

Hmm, I not sure. I know they were in style when my parents got married.