For the betrothed who prefer to toe the line between traditional and unique—or for whom a fire-engine red gown might give dear Granny heart palpitations—designers are accenting white dresses with colored ribbon, lace and panels. “Because a bride in white is so expected, there is something instantly special about wearing a splash of color down the aisle,” says Oscar de la Renta, who last season showed an embroidered white gown lined in powder blue satin. When Amanda Peet married screenwriter David Benioff in September 2006, she chose an ivory de la Renta gown and added a black ribbon at the waist, “which made it seem more like a festive party dress and less traditionally bridal,” Peet says. “I didn’t want my wedding to be too serious.”
Carolina Herrera has also flirted with color, adding a spray of blush to a hem and designing a gown with a green and beige lily of the valley pattern, while Monique
Lhuillier has designed dresses in yellow and steel gray. “Bridal is really much prettier if you incorporate some kind of color,” says Lhuillier. “It says you’re not afraid.”
One woman who paid no heed to the wedding-dress edict set forth by her long-ago Queen is British stylist Katy England, who married Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie in 2006 wearing a custom-made corseted chiffon Alexander McQueen dress—with an English country hedgerow print atop a layer of pink and cream stripes. “I’d selected colors for the dress that I considered to be much more flattering to my skin tone than pure white, and all my guests seemed to love it,” says England, whose husband—clearly a good match—showed up in a suit embroidered with red roses. “But I’m sure that must be the same for every bride. After all, real friends can only say how wonderful a bride looks on her wedding day.”
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