Tomorrow I travel to Pittsburgh with Bun and Ellis for a wedding-dress fitting. ❋ Tragic_elegance (2009)
He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked in water. ❋ Unknown (2010)
At first itwasall men, because they'd conceded the wedding-dress trade to the women's shop down the street, but when Carmen was in tenth grade her mother prodded her father into taking over the small store next to theirs. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It is apparent that Virginia already commanded a circle of loving admirers: Bobby Throckmorton, teasing slender Virginia for worrying that she had looked overweight in her blue wedding-dress, sent a present of chocolates to his ‘Dear Fat Girl’ the following month, accompanied, he told her, by ‘love and passion’. ❋ Miranda Seymour (2009)
Emotionally, it can be hard to downsize a wedding-dress dream. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Gianpiero Lippolis and a model showing a Giovanna Sbiroli dress in Shanghai There, he visited wedding-dress retailers, checked out products and examined their quality. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Married Style to Globalism PUTIGNANO, Italy -- For more than half a century, wedding-dress maker Giovanna Sbiroli SRL built its brand and customer base by serving the Italian market. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Putignano's wedding-dress makers were supposed to be globalization's first victims. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He enlisted a Shanghai marketing firm to help him target Chinese retailers and buyers, and this past summer the company had a fashion show in Shanghai -- the first for an Italian wedding-dress maker. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Back in the 1980s when I was in college studying journalism, economics and politics, I really admired the political writing of David Broder -- of course, I also thought Madonna looked drop-dead sexy in that wedding-dress get-up, so what the hell did I know? ❋ Unknown (2008)
But over the past decade, the company -- one of around 40 small wedding-dress makers in and around this remote hill town -- watched its share of the Italian market drop by 20% as Chinese imports and goods made in other low-cost countries flooded in. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In a montage of wedding-dress fittings, she honors “new friends like Vera Wang and Carolina Herrera and Christian Lacroix, Lanvin and Dior,” and so on; what I object to is not the name-dropping—think of it as a chick response to “American Psycho”—but the montage itself, which is shot in lazy veils of schmaltz. ❋ Melissa Silverstein (2008)
The wedding planner, Tricia Windon, had handled most of the other details, but no one could help that sick feeling when I walked into those wedding-dress shops. ❋ Paula Deen (2007)
I thought the toilet-paper wedding-dress game was bad, and that's at least limited to all-girl wedding showers. ❋ Unknown (2007)
On the plus side, the miserable wedding-dress search did trigger my interest in period costume/vintage/whatnot. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I remember playing with him in the garden before going off to get changed into my wedding-dress and veil: the lawn had been freshly-mown and we were piling up the cuttings and playing with them...... ❋ Joanna Bogle (2007)
And at last she grew so stiff and lame, that the angels were forced to carry her; and they helped her on with her wedding-dress, and carried her up over Harthover Fells, and a long way beyond that too; and there was a new schoolmistress in ❋ Unknown (2007)
And always she sang an old old song, as she sat spinning what she called her wedding-dress. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Jeffrey Moore, a senior vice president at wedding-dress superretailer David's Bridal, says 20 percent of its gowns now include color; they were all white (or ivory) just three years ago. ❋ Unknown (2007)
