She tried on multiple designer dresses with her stylist Mimi Cuttrell, but nothing felt right. Eventually, she resorted to Pinterest, and after hours of scrolling through inspiration photos, she came across a dress that was in the realm of what she wanted, by Danielle Frankel. “I immediately sent it to Mimi and asked her to get me the dress as I needed to try it on ASAP. I had a feeling the pearl off-white color and the vintage, yet modern elements would be a perfect match for me,” Alex explains. “The minute I tried it on I knew we had found what I was looking for.”
Mimi reached out to Danielle Frankel and from there they began the process of creating a custom gown, while using the designer’s existing original dress as the inspiration, tweaking the V-neckline to a straight line and adjusting the drop waist. At an appointment with Danielle, they tried many different variations of how big the train and skirt could be but kept going back to the simplest, smallest version with no train. In the final fitting, Alex tried on veils and ultimately the short blusher veil just felt right. “The dress truly turned out to be my dream,” the bride says. “I felt so classic and chic in it. I felt confident and sexy while still elegant and timeless. the rest of the looks fell into place.”
Another Danielle Frankel showstopper featuring pearls was selected for Thursday night—Alex wanted a dress that worked for the venue’s speakeasy vibe, and this one delivered. And on Friday night, the bride wore a vintage Donna Karan dress. “In one of our fittings, Mimi had this one dress in the midst of a lot of white, and I couldn’t stop staring at,” she remembers. “It was so beautiful on the rack. After all the white try-ons, I grabbed the dress, and the minute I tried it on, Mimi and I were thrilled. We found it.”
The last major look that was chosen was a vintage Alexander McQueen dress for the after-party. “Again, the minute I tried it on I knew,” Alex recalls. “Everyone in the room was silent, and we all just stared at each other in shock. It is one of the most beautiful dresses I have ever worn in my life.” Once they’d wrapped all of the main components of her wedding wardrobe, Alex still wanted to source the option of an after-after-party look, and they found it in one of their last fittings: a vintage Versace corset. “It was breathtaking and sexy, but still lived in the same pearl off-white family as the rest of the looks. We finished all the main looks in about two months, and I remember thinking that there was not one look I liked more than the others, and that was the goal.”