Category Archives: Vera Wang

Kim Kardashian Divorces

  Kim Kardashian has announced that she is filing for divorce from her husband Kris Humphries after just 72 days of marriage. Is this just another celebrity marriage that looked better on paper and in the media, or was it a great way to grab some media exposure and make a quick buck.   Three Vera Wang wedding dresses each purportedly worth $20’000, $400,000 worth of Perrier Jouet champagne, invitations from Lehr & Black estimated at $10,000 and $750,000 (!) for catering for the 500 guests at the reception, $15,000, 10-tiered wedding cake with chocolate-chip icing and black and white decorations made by Hansen’s Bakery were all comped.     According to an earlier publication in The New York Post the couple are set to make around $18 million.  

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Kate Middleton’s Wedding Dress recreated with baloons

Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding dress recreated using 5,000 balloons Thelma Levett’s life is just a load of hot air. For 15 years Mrs Levett has spent her life blowing up balloons and twisting them into everyday objects. And now inspired by the Duchess of Cambridge she has even made a replica of the most talked about wedding dress in history for her daughter Vicky,  21.   The balloon ‘Kate’ wedding dress has taken 5,000 balloons to create and even has replica lace sleeves that Kate wowed the public with on her wedding day in April this year. Mrs Levett, 54, who lives in Hinckley, Leicestershire, said: ‘I was really inspired when I saw Kate’s wedding dress on television. ‘I’d made a few balloon dresses before and had even had a go at making a wedding dress, so I thought I would make a replica of Kate’s.     ‘It was hard work. It took four solid days of blowing up and twisting the balloons into shape. ‘But I was thrilled with the overall result. My daughter Vicky loves wearing it, although she won’t wear it outside as she’s terrified that someone will pop the dress with a pin and leave … Continue reading

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David’s Bridal to make a copy of Kim Kardashian’s Vera Wang wedding dress

  David’s Bridal is to recreate Kim Kardashian’s custom made Vera Wang wedding dress Well, of course it’s not such a surprise. After all it didn’t take long before Kate Middleton’s Alexander McQueen’s wedding dress by Sarah Burton when Allen Schwartz had started working on a replica of the royal wedding dress.   Similarly, Pippa Middleton’s maid-of-honour’s Alexander McQueen was copied just a few days after the Royal Wedding was on sale in Sydney. Vera Wang will work in collaboration with David’s Bridal to recreate two of the three wedding dresses that Kim Kardashian wore on her wedding on August 20th.   She (Vera Wang) already has a partnership with the bridal wear giant on a lower priced line of wedding dresses – White by Vera Wang.   The wedding gowns are to go on sale in February. ResellYourWedding.com – buy & sell used wedding dresses.

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