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MOTHER OF THE BRIDE, BRIDAL TIPS, AND ARTICLES
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At our store, you will find mother of the bride dresses, mother of the groom dresses, plus size mother of the bride dresses, and mother of the bride gowns. Stay around and you will also see our other selections of formal dresses, plus size formal dresses, plus size formal wear, plus size evening gowns, and for those who choose to wear dress suits, we offer the women's hats to match.
HOW TO CHOOSE YOUR DRESS
The bride and bridesmaids' dresses are chosen first with the color schemes. The mother of the bride will wear a complementary (but not matching) color and her style could be modern or classic, without being old fashioned. The mother of the bride's dress and mother of the groom's dress, should also complement each other. If one wears long, the other should wear long. If one wears short, the other should also wear it short. Dress suits with embellishments and details are so very popular these days.
Also, ask the bride what she would suggest so that your choice is complementary to the overall style of the wedding. Remember to stay away from white, or whatever color the bride is wearing on her special day. Black, however, is no longer considered inappropriate in these modern times.
WHEN TO SHOP
When the bride's and bridesmaids' dresses are chosen, you should also start to select your dress. Please be aware that bridal and formal dress shops stock only a limited number styles, sizes, and colors, so you will probably have to get your dress SPECIAL ORDERED.
Here at Audrey's Mother of the Bride, we have stock in hand as well as special order dresses. If for some reason, your dress is on special or back order, we will inform you as soon as possible. Please plan ahead and purchase your dress as soon as you know when the wedding date is.
WHAT IS THE PRICE THAT YOU CAN AFFORD?
There are fashionable and trendy looks at every bridal or formal dress store, and at every price. You just want to look your best because you are next in line to the bride, with regards as to how you appear to the guests. At Audrey's Mother of the Bride, you will find an array of styles that will fit most budgets. Our selections are contemporary, stylish, and classy, to reflect your glamourous attitude on your special day.
Thank you for shopping Audrey's Mother of the Bride where we provide you, our customer, with the best service!
More Tips Below.....
By KEVIN COWAN, Scripps Howard News Service (Courtesy of The Florida Times):
The wedding day is about the dress.
For the bride, it is that dream gown that transforms her into a glorious vision in white. The bridesmaid sometimes dons a frock only a bride could love.
Then there are the mothers of the bride and groom. The selection of the dresses for these matriarchs is serious business.
“This is a big process,” said Jabette Carlson, a buyer for Clothes by Mertie, a Knoxville, Tenn., boutique that specializes in dresses for wedding-day moms. “It’s not like you’re getting a another dress for your wardrobe. It can be very emotional. They work really hard to find something that everyone will like, especially the daughters.”
In their search, mothers will find a variety of styles that will put smiles on their and the brides-to-be’s faces.
“Most of the time, people are looking for a formal dress with a jacket,” Carlson said, “and it’s usually floor-length.”
Other common options include tea-length dresses, cocktail suits and long gowns with more of a nontraditional feel for youthful moms who don’t want to look like typical mothers of the bride. If it’s a garden or a beach wedding, looks can be as relaxed as a flowy chiffon sundress.
Straight column dresses and A-line shapes are prevalent. Jackets, sometimes with three-quarter-length sleeves, and wraps cover spaghetti straps and bare shoulders exposed by strapless numbers and sheath styles.
“They usually want the arms covered for the church weddings,” said Kelly Clayton at Pam Kelly.
Whatever the dress, the mother of the bride sets the tone. According to The Knot.com, “It is customary for the MOB to purchase her dress first. Her choice of color, cut and length are meant to subtly dictate what the mother of the groom will wear.”
“They have to coordinate their looks,” Carlson said. “They should complement each other and the color scheme of the wedding, especially when it comes to photographs.”
A “mother wearing an orange dress next to your bridesmaids’ light-green ensembles is bound to make wedding pictures look tacky,” said the experts at USABRIDE.com.
The key word here is complement, not match.
“They don’t want to wear the same color or style,” said Clayton. “They would take away from each other.”
The color of the dress is a big deal. Traditionalists frown upon white, ivory and champagne. If the mother of the groom wears these shades, it is interpreted she views the bride as a rival.
Soft shades of pink, blue, green, yellow and lavender make for a peaceful affair, particularly at day weddings. Black, once considered too mournful for the big day, is popping up more at evening weddings, often combined with white. Jewel tones, such as purple and burgundy, are popular hues for fall weddings.
Prints are viewed as distracting. However, a print dress at a garden or beach wedding isn’t out of the question.
In details, designers and stores have shied away from elaborate beading, once a staple on mothers’ fashions.
“We’ve gotten away from the beaded, sequined things,” Carlson said. “It’s more about fabric, textures and embroidered details.”
Look for tiers of ruffles, pleating, ribbon trims, rhinestone buttons and a sprinkling of beads.
Scripps Howard News Service
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Mother of the Bride: The Dream, the Reality, the Search for a Perfect Dress by ILENE BECKERMAN.
Product Details:
ISBN: 1565124766
Format: Paperback, 168pp
Pub. Date: April 2005
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Barnes & Noble Sales Rank: 109,955
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FROM OUR EDITORS (BARNES AND NOBLE)
This hilarious yet poignant memoir is the perfect gift for any mother of a bride-to-be. Beckerman, author of Love, Loss, and What I Wore, muses on everything from the mother-of-the-bride dress to hors d'oeuvres at the wedding to a mother's changing relationship with her adult daughter.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
The relationship between a mother and daughter is often fraught-but never so much as during the preparations for a daughter's wedding. Who better to offer a fresh perspective on weddings than the mother of the bride? And who better to describe it-the agony and the ecstasy-than Ilene "Gingy" Beckerman, who's married off three daughters and remembers it all very clearly.
--The high cost of wedding cakes: "I could have had a lifetime supply of Entenmann's chocolate doughnuts!"
--Bridesmaid dresses: "What do five girls-one short, one tall, one buxom, one flat, one who gave birth a month ago-have in common? A bridesmaid's dress they hate."
--Mother-of-the-bride dresses: "I tried on green velvet. A Rodney Dangerfield line came to me: 'If that dress had pockets, you'd look like a pool table.' The dress had pockets."
--And, finally, the sight of her daughter walking down the aisle: "My daughter was Cinderella, Snow White, Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, and Jacqueline Kennedy. But better."
Gingy looks at the bride-to-be and sees the teenager who wanted Bo Derek braids, the little girl she taught to dance to the tune of "Me and My Shadow," the beautiful baby, the miracle she gave birth to decades earlier. And now, en route to the aisle, their relationship is tested in ways Gingy never imagined.
Beckerman simply and brilliantly describes the highs and lows of life with an adult daughter. What emerges is a poignant and telling story.
SYNOPSIS
When Ilene Beckerman told us the story of her clothes in Love, Loss, and What I Wore, she captivated women of all ages. Her story moved people to tears and made us laugh out loud, too. Ilene—"Gingy," as she's known—showed us ourselves.
Now Gingy looks at one of life's happiest (and most stressful) events: the planning of a daughter's wedding. Once again this Everywoman takes us lovingly, and hilariously, through another passage in a woman's life. Whether it's searching for a mother-of-the-bride dress that doesn't look like something Mrs. Khrushchev would have worn, or choosing hors d'oeuvres that won't give the guests indigestion, Gingy offers a fresh look at a subject that needs a fresh look. She describes a year of agony and ecstasy—and along the way shares with us a mother's love and expectations for her daughter.
11 TIPS FOR BEAUTIFUL BRIDAL HAIR
by Melanie Mendelson (c)2005
1. Be true to yourself
Don't choose a hairstyle that makes you feel not yourself.
Brides often get pressured into certain styles because of
"tradition". If a particular style makes you feel uneasy,
don't choose it. It does not matter that your mother, best
friend or hairstylist like it - what really matters is YOU.
2. Develop a clear idea
Before going to the stylist, try to develop a good idea of
what type of hairstyle you would like. Cut out the pictures
of your favorite hairstyles from magazines and bring them to
the stylist. If you can't find any pictures, be prepared to
describe exactly what you want.
3. Do a practice run
Try out the hairstyle in advance, before your wedding day.
Schedule the "practice run" with your stylist. If the
hairstyle that you envisioned does not look as good on you
as you had hoped, you'll be glad you found that out before
the big day!
4. Is it comfortable?
Walk around with this hairstyle for several hours to make
sure it's comfortable. The last thing you would want is to
have hair pins hurting you and ruining your fun.
5. Take pictures
At the "practice run", bring a Polaroid or digital camera to
take instant pictures. Ask the stylist to take pictures from
the back and other angles. The pictures will give you a
better idea how the style would look to others (as opposed
to just looking in the mirror).
6. Does it hold up?
Make sure your hair style does not get completely messed up
several hours later. Try moving around and see if the hair
stays put. You would not want a hair disaster during the
first dance!
7. Matching with your dress
Your hair style should go well with your wedding dress and
headpiece. Classic dresses go best with classic hairstyles.
Non-traditional dresses might look odd with the formal
updos. Buy the dress before you select a hairstyle. Bring
your headpiece and the picture of your dress to the stylist,
so the stylist can evaluate whether it's a good match.
8. Watch out for chemicals
Don't have any coloring or chemical treatments done right
before the wedding - these can go wrong, and there won't be
time to fix them! Do them several weeks in advance.
9. Stay consistent
Don't make drastic changes. Your wedding day is not the time
to color your hair in a completely different color or cut
off long locks. After all, you would still want people to
recognize you at your own wedding!
10. Beware of the height effect
Be aware that updos will make you look taller. Depending on
your situation, it might work for you or against you. If you
are already taller than the groom or are the same height,
don't do an updo. If you are short, use the updo to your
advantage.
11. Keep it sensible
Don't make your hairstyle too flamboyant - it should not
compete with your face and your dress. You would want to
avoid the situation where your hair is the only thing that
jumps out at people when they look at you.
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Mothers of Distinction
Mothers of the bride and groom rewrite the fashion rules
By Robin McMacken, courtesy of The Los Angeles Times
She has issued more style directives in your life than any sales clerk, girlfriend or magazine. For better or worse, she has lovingly orchestrated the major fashion milestones in your life—from assembling your layette to guiding you through that awkward first bra purchase.
As you approach your wedding day, don't forget that Mom, too, deserves to look poised and regal for yet another rite of passage. "She has lots of people she wants to look good for," says Steve Silverstein, president of the Alfred Sung label, which specializes in bridal party gowns and evening wear.
With that in mind, Silverstein advises mothers not to procrastinate in shopping for their gowns. Ideally, after the bride and her attendants have selected their gowns, the spotlight should turn to the mothers of both the bride and the groom. Mothers are prepared to spend more money than the bridesmaids for their gowns, leaning toward silk and subtle beading. After all, they are the proud mothers.
"It's an important category. One of the biggest things is that most of the mothers forget that they need to get a dress and wait until the last minute," Silverstein says. "The mother gets caught up with all the excitement of the daughter or son being engaged. There are so many things going on, and they are the last ones on the list."
Traditional wisdom says the bride dictates what she wants her mother to wear, and then the groom's mother follows suit. This thinking has the mothers of the bride and groom dressed in different colors from the bride and her attendants. Neither, it suggests, should the mothers of the couple wear the same color. Nor should their gowns clash with the overall colors of the bridal party and flowers. And at very formal weddings, etiquette advises that the mother of the bride wear gloves.
All that said, many SoCal couples prefer to take a more modern approach.
"There is almost no protocol today. Everybody does what they think is right for them," Silverstein says. "The key is individuality. There is nothing you have to do; it's what feels good for you."
Of course, what colors look good for photos must be kept in mind. For Michael Weintraub, owner of Dressed-Up in Tarzana, an all-service bridal and evening wear salon, the general rule of thumb is to make sure the colors blend. The mother of the bride, for example, may wear a deep burgundy, while the groom's mom dons a complementary hunter green. The couple, too, can send forth general color ideas.
"We must temper our dreams with what will work budget-wise or what will look good on Mom," Weintraub says. He advocates "good, open communication" so the entire bridal party will look radiant and feel confident.
He adds that sometimes, on her own reconnaissance mission, a mother will find a dress she absolutely loves. The bride sees it for the first time, and Weintraub says there may well be tears of disapproval or laughter. "One reality that the bride is forced to deal with is Mom looks great in a color that is not necessarily what the bride had in mind." Concede or compromise where needed.
If a true fashion disaster is in the making, employ the art of gentle persuasion. Weintraub recalls a couple planning a very formal, black-tie wedding and the groom's mother was determined to wear a street-length dress. Weintraub called the groom and coached him on how to convince his mother otherwise.
One area where the generation gap has conspicuously narrowed is in the way mothers and daughters dress in general. Moms are shopping at the Gap, while daughters are increasingly sneaking into their mothers' closets to borrow shoes and outfits.
This hip attitude appears in mother-of-the-bride dresses as well. The look is decidedly more youthful than the covered-up, prim-and-proper designs of the past.
"These moms are looking pretty amazing. A lot of them are in great shape. Some of the moms are still in their 40s, and they don't have to dress matronly," says designer Nicole Miller. "Before, we used to picture her in a suit that covered the knees and was kind of boxy. A lot of the moms are in as good of shape as their daughters, and they are dressing more modernly than they might have in the past."
The shoulder-baring designs so popular for the bride and bridesmaids also are being touted in mother-of-the-bride fashions. Strapless gowns and spaghetti-strap dresses, topped with shawls or boleros, make elegant statements, Silverstein says. If a sleeve is desired, it is usually a sophisticated chiffon or lace design, he adds. Skirts are straight or A-line, often accented with side or back slits.
"Unlike back east, we are seeing cleaner styles for mothers and less over-the-top opulence," Weintraub says. On the East Coast, "you will see mothers of the bride in ballgown and more country-club styles."
"It's always important not to upstage the bride," Miller points out.
Mom probably has the most leeway in terms of color, but the dress she chooses should ultimately blend with the rest of the bridal party.
"The champagne and silver tones work out the whole year," Weintraub says. "We are selling a lot of the strong yet tasteful colors—the teals, the purples, the amethyst, the hunter green, the royal blue. There are so many sophisticated variations of these colors."
Silverstein adds that his company is selling ocean mist (a soft sage), shell pink, navy and silver. Even ivory is a much-in-demand color for the mother.
Miller says her dresses also reflect a rich color palette with mulberry, a deep red, an olive green, navy and charcoal. Neutrals also make their mark in formal wear for mothers, as well as the once-avoided black.
Keeping Mom on schedule with her dress is important for the right fit, too. "Many women don't want to bother hemming a dress or gown to the most attractive length. But you absolutely must," Weintraub says. "In fact, a half-inch difference can mean the difference between looking polished or looking like you borrowed the clothes. Floor-length gowns should be functional—approximately 1-1/2 inches from the floor."
As is so often true with the bride's gown, for the fashionable mother, it's all in the details.
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