Getting Dressed Wedding gowns can be gloriously dramatic creations with fabulous floods of lace and rich brocade that make you feel like genuine royalty. The drawback is—and has always been—that they require you to maintain a demure, placid demeanor that can get pretty wearing over an 8 to 10 hour stretch. Once the ceremony is done, you want to be able to table-hop, eat, drink, and dance with joy and abandon—and pounds of precisely fitted white satin and lace can become an annoyance.
