Bridal Fashion Week can feel like a tulle-covered, pearl-coated island separate from the rest of the fashion cycle. Wedding attire designers show their collections more than a month after the runways wrap up in New York, Milan, and Paris. Second, wedding dress trends are not always as obvious as spotting a fresh It-Shoe or a rising color palette.
But first impressions can be misleading—and there's more to Spring 2025's upcoming wedding dress trends than just new shades of white. I spent the past week attending Bridal Fashion Week’s Spring 2025 shows—my sixth year as a fashion editor on the wedding dress circuit—and found the market to be more in tune with fashion week proper than ever. Legendary players in the space (such as the Elie Saabs and Monique Lhuilliers) embraced recent runway codes from exaggerated bow embellishments to the return of the drop-waist dress; so did newcomers like Lein Studio and insider favorites like Markarian.
