What bride doesn’t want to feel like a princess on her wedding day?

by Suzanne Wales

Princess wedding dresses have been around for centuries. Back then, this full- skirted, tight-bodice silhouette was achieved with heavy layering and boning – with real bones! These days, lighter fabrics and modern tailoring techniques give volume without the weight, modern detailing and a form-fitting upper-body that lets you move and breathe.

So, what type of princess are you?

These variations on the classic princess and ball gown wedding dresses are inspired by famous regal style icons and once-in-a-lifetime royal weddings.

Grace Kelly. Haute Couture Elegance

TRINE - Pronovias Atelier

BYINGTON - Pronovias Privée

A woman so stylish she had a handbag named after her. When the beautiful Hollywood actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier III she wore a ‘fairy princess’ gown crafted in silk taffeta and embellished with rich embroidery and seed pearls. Pronovias channels this juncture of modernism and faultless craftsmanship with Trine, a strapless, mikado ballroom wedding dress enhanced with exquisite hand-threaded embroidery over the bodice and skirt. For all-over lace, the Byington dress presents a dainty back bow and slender, see-through sleeves; creating a pitch perfect ball gown wedding dress with haute couture overtures.

Princess Diana. Take It To The Limit

LARISA - Pronovias

IDINA - Pronovias Privée

While the sartorial savoir-faire of Princess Diana finds new fans in the 4^th season of the TV series The Crown, few of us can ever forget her extravagant wedding dress. The most well guarded secret in fashion history, the whole world gasped as she stepped out of the royal carriage in a princess wedding dress so elaborate, so utterly breathtaking in volume and detail, that it set a new benchmark. Pronovias keeps the spirit of Diana’s ‘more is more’ moment’ alive with Larisa, a billowing layered tulle fantasy with aerodynamic ruffled sleeves. Also in tulle, Idina takes tufts and ruffles to exquisite new heights.

The Duchess of Sussex. Modern and Understated

HEPBURN - Pronovias

VESTA - Pronovias

Now a regular on the best-dressed women lists, Meghan Markle chose an unadorned princess wedding dress with long sleeves and a boat neck when she tied the knot with Prince Harry at Windsor Castle. Paired with little more than a lace-edged veil and her winning smile, she set the tone for modern princess nuptial style. For princess wedding dresses with the same understated chic, Hepburn enhances its deep V neckline with an edging of scalloped lace. Or be like Meghan and choose a demure bateau neckline and long regal sleeves with Vesta.

Discover all the princess wedding dresses and ball gown wedding dresses from Pronovias. From minimalist to maximalist, sweetheart to V-necked, lace to long sleeves, these evergreen silhouettes dress the dreams of all types of brides.

While you are here, also see our range of A-line wedding dresses. A cousin to the princess wedding dress, it has a less-defined waistline, and a slightly slimmer skirt.