Top Six Wedding Dress Trends for 2010/2011

Our current wedding fashion trends feel really diverse - you can have a wedding gown style based on pretty much any era of fashion and still be extremely fashionable.

So what’s in store for this year and next?  What wedding dress styles are hot, or going to become hot?  Some leading wedding gown designers were asked that same question, and the following are what they predicted.

1. Sexy Slinky Silhouettes

If you’ve got a fab figure (or fantastic suction underwear!), now is the time to do a victory dance - sexy, figure-hugging wedding dress silhouettes will be hot for the next couple of seasons.

2. Ball Gown Styles

For those who loved the wildly ridiculous yet fabulous gowns in Gone with the Wind (*blush*), and for many of us who want to disguise our thighs, ball gown style wedding gowns are back. Fabulous! Ball gown wedding dresses have many rather wonderful upsides, including squishing you into the shape you desire, giving you fabulous cleavage, and being impossible to remove on your own ;-).

3. Fifties style wedding gowns

There’s something about the whole belted waist idea that makes me happy.   And the Stephanie A-line gown on the left is probably my current favorite gown of any I’ve seen (…and I see a LOT).

4. Mermaid Style Wedding Gowns

Apparently mermaid style wedding gowns are also a fifties influence, and thinking about it, one of my favorite dresses of all time is the dress Audrey Hepburn wore to the races in My Fair Lady - an extremely tight-fitting mermaid style gown.

5. Tea-length wedding dresses

Tea-length wedding dresses are fabulous for a more casual, less traditional wedding, especially if you have a nice pair of pins and some knock-out shoes.   Once again, the 50s influence is shining through!

6. Grecian Goddess wedding dresses

Are you in touch with your inner goddess?  Grecian style wedding dresses are hot at the moment - high-waisted with floaty materials, they would make me look like a mountain, but if you’re slim and smaller breasted, it’s a style that could look stunning.