Gigi Stone's Jane Austen Wedding? Methinks Not

Gigi and Ian cut the cake

Anisha Lakhani described Gigi Stone's Jane Austen Wedding in Huffington Post yesterday.

A Jane Austen wedding? I did a double take when I saw the images. Where's the Regency inspired gown? The little stone chapel? The horse drawn carriage? The small bouquet of meadow flowers in season? The neatly coiffed and curled hair? While Gigi looked ravishing and the setting of her wedding was picturesque, I would not have described her wedding as Austenesque.

The headline proves how a mere association with Jane Austen's name can attract readers. If you want to see a Regency inspired wedding, view this image of Caroline D's wedding in 2007 on Sense and Sensibility Patterns.

Caroline Ds Regency - Horatio Hornblower - inspired wedding
Image @Sense and Sensibility Patterns

Caroline provides even more information and images on this discussion post.

Jane Austen Wedding Styles

Throwing a Jane Austen style wedding today is all about the details, from the invitations, to the gloves, to the shape of the dress and the sleeves, to the lace parasol or hat and old fashioned fragrant flowers, to hairstyles and jewelry. All these echoes of an elegant yet simple style from the past will make a regency era wedding seem true to form. These images and links will help a young bride (and her mother) to think about the elements that make a Jane Austen style wedding work.

• Romantic Empire Wedding Dress
• Bridal Wave TV
• Johanna Hehir Jane Austen inspired gown
• Snippet and Ink

Melanie Potro designed a dress called Camille, a perfect modern version of a Jane Austen inspired gown.

Jane Austen Regency Wedding Board

Also read my post on Regency Wedding Dresses and Later Development in Bridal Fashions

Posted by Vic, Jane Austen's World