BrideTide | Wedding + Bridal Resource

They say that everything old is new again, and this is certainly true when it comes to wedding gowns. Every year, designers borrow inspiration from the styles of bygone eras to create their new bridal gown collections. For many brides, though, it is even better to go directly to the original source: an authentic vintage bridal gown. Wearing an antique wedding dress allows a bride to have a unique look on her wedding day, one that she is not going to see on half of the other brides in town that year. Vintage gowns can also be ideal for a "green wedding", as they fit in perfectly with the "reduce, reuse, recycle" concept. It takes special knowledge and care to select a vintage bridal gown; this is everything that you need to know about the fashions from each time period, how to find and select an antique gown, and how to restore a vintage wedding dress so that it looks as beautiful on your wedding day as it did the first time it was worn.