Wedding Dresses & Bridal Accessories

For their wedding day, some women go all out, opting for classic wedding dresses in traditional white and sheer-illusion transparency. Others create one-of-a-kind sophisticated looks with high-style couture fabrics. And some turn to the past with vintage wedding dresses and vintage bridal accessories for a throwback experience.

Whatever the style, women around the world wear dresses and accessories for their weddings that are, even if only for the moment, uniquely their own. This is fitting for an unforgettable, once-in-a-lifetime event such as a wedding.

Women seeking unique and vintage pieces for their wedding dress or bridal accessories often turn to auctions. Short of scouring the closets of relatives, vintage bridal auctions are the best source for finding something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue for the occasion.

Quick Facts

• Princess Diana's back-up bridal gown and slippers, exact replicas of those worn at her 1981 Royal wedding to Prince Charles, sold in December 2011 for £84,000
• The satin, pearl-embellished gown worn by Elizabeth Taylor at her first wedding sold at 2013 Christie's in London for £121,875, more than twice its original estimate
• In 2006 at Christie's, the 1870s diamond tiara worn by Princess Margaret at her wedding to Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1960 sold for $1,704,576. It can be converted into a necklace and eleven brooches with its original screwdriver and fittings