Michelle was Strut's first Oklahoma bride! She first visited our bridal store in May 2011 in search of a ballgown or mermaid wedding dress. She fell in love with a fitted Allure Bridals gown that she wore for her April…
Three Designer Wedding Dresses We Adore
We know–you look through the bridal magazines for wedding dress inspiration and then get sticker shock when your favorite gown is $6,000. We love those wedding dresses, too, and use them as inspiration gowns to help you find something within…
Katie’s Ruffled Wedding Dress
Katie had a classic cherry red, black and ivory wedding this April 28th in San Diego. And she sent us wedding photos so fast we just knew she loved her dress! Katie wore a satin-edged veil over her face as…
Jessica’s Vintage/Hollywood Glamour Wedding
Sometimes a wedding dress is so awesome it inspires a nickname, given to it by our stylists at Strut. In this case, the gown accented a bride's curves in such a way that we named it the "Jessica Rabbit Dress"….
FAQ: What’s the Difference Between a Fit and Flare, Trumpet and Mermaid Wedding Dress?
We get this question a lot from brides who wonder which wedding dress style will look best on them. Recently Brides magazine answered this question with a great visual showing the difference between a fit and flare, trumpet, and mermaid…
Strut Bride Nicole V. in Lace Wedding Dress
Nicole V. was a recent bride who sent us photos along with a super sweet note that we just have to share: Hi Ann! Just wanted to send you a few pictures from my April 30th wedding at Regency Garden…
Strut Bride Ericka S. in Eden Bridals Lace Wedding Dress
Ericka and James wed at the Farm at South Mountain this spring. We haven't been there to see the wedding ceremony and reception area (their dance floor was under the trees!) so we loved that wedding photographer Emily Snitzer was…
2012 Wedding Dress Trends
Strut co-owner Ann just came back from the bridal market and is bursting with happiness over the awesome new bridal gowns she found. Here's our spring 2012 wedding dress trend report! Wait, are we talking about 2012 or 2011 wedding…
How to Bustle a Mermaid or Trumpet Gown
We get asked all the time how to bustle our wedding gowns. There's no easy answer because it depends mostly on the style of the gown. Some wedding gowns lookfine with the traditional over-bustle, where we just pick up the train…
Trumpet Versus Mermaid Wedding Dress, Part 2
A few months ago we wrote about the difference between mermaid and trumpet style wedding gowns. We still get a lot of questions on this, so we thought we'd revisit the topic. In a nutshell, we said that mermaid wedding…
Wedding Dresses on the Scottsdale Runway!
We recently participated in the wedding dress runway show at the Arizona Bridal Affair at the Chaparral Suites and Resorts in Scottsdale. It turned out to be an uncharacteristically warm day, so we were happy to be under the tent, showing…
Ann Plays Favorites: Allure 8722
Most of our Strut brides know that I have favorite dresses (often what's new in the store… but since I hand-pick dresses, they're kinda all my faves, like little children…). I just got in this Allure wedding dress two weeks…
