Wedding Dress 101
Become ‘SuperBride’ with a Stunning Bridal Cape
Superheroes step aside, because brides in capes rule our world. From regal and dramatic to light and airy, capes add whimsical, enchanting detail to any…
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Outside the Box, Real Brides, Stylist Advice
The Best Bridesmaid’s Dress Trends Right Now
Designing your wedding dress is just the beginning as a bride – selecting your bridal party's attire will enhance your overall aesthetic, and today there are…
Outside the Box
Give the Best Gift That’s Not on the Wedding Registry, a Custom Star Map
Wine glasses, bath towels, and bed sheets… boring, boring, and boring. We’ve all been there: scrolling mindlessly through the couple’s wedding registry, adding to the…
Wedding Dress 101
Don’t Think You’re a Lace Bride? Think Again – Introducing You to Guipure
It'll come as no surprise that we love lace, and today we're taking a close look at one of our favorites – Guipure. One of the…
Bride Stories, Real Brides
Get Your Pinterest Boards Ready for This Classic Bridal Ball Gown
Raise your hand if you love a good, classic bride and groom look! We’re thrilled to share this classy couple, with her stunning Anomalie ball…
Real Brides
A Proposal so Cute, It’s (Almost) Unbelievable
When the bride-to-be first thought she was ACTUALLY dreaming during the proposal, you know it's going to be a good one. Add in a trip…
Wedding Dress 101
These Wedding Dresses with Lace Cutout Trains Deserve a Double Take
Both trains and lace are timeless, traditional elements of some of the most beautiful wedding dresses in history. And when you design a custom wedding…
Bride Stories, Real Brides
A High-Low Hemline on This Anomalie Gown is Tailored for Dancing the Night Away
Laura is a third grade teacher, but her passion is dance. This Anomalie bride also owns a dance studio, where she teaches ballet, jazz, and…
Wedding Dress 101
Make Your Wedding Day Look Pop with a Champagne Gown
Champagne bubbles (and your dance moves) don’t have to be the only thing poppin’ on your wedding day. Your dress can pop–just like the cork…
Outside the Box
5 Online Wedding Planning Tools You Just Have to Try
You already know you can design and order your custom wedding dress online (with Anomalie, of course!) but there are tons of other helpful hacks…
Real Brides
A Glam LA Producer + Outdoorsy Medical Professional Fall in Love…Here’s What Happens Next
When glamorous producer, Donia Duchess, went on her first date with Joey, she knew she'd met her match. From fake British accents to psychic predictions,…
Real Brides
You Must See This Modern Beach Wedding for a True Fashionista
This fashionista bride new exactly what she was looking for in a dream wedding dress for her destination wedding, but she struggled to find something…
Engagements, Outside the Box
It’s True Love for These Fitness-focused Fiancées!
Welcome to the Anomalie newlywed game, where we introduce you to upcoming brides and their soon-to-be grooms! Get to know Justin and Melissa, two fitness fanatics;…
Bride Stories, Real Brides
Bridal Body Positivity & A Gorgeous Gown Make For Style Success
We love our brides and when our brides love us back, it's just fabulous and a wonderful reassurance that we've done our job well. But…
Bride Stories, Real Brides
It’s Santorini Dreaming in a Gorgeous Strapless Lace Wedding Dress for this Anomalie Bride
If you’ve been dreaming of a trip to Santorini, then you’re in luck! Today we’re sharing the drop dead gorgeous wedding of Anomalie bride Kelly.…
Wedding Dress 101
Do the Bustle! Tips for Adding a Bustle to Your Wedding Dress
Getting to know all the intricate parts of a custom wedding dress is part of the fun in creating your custom gown. Today, we’re going…
Real Brides
A Colorful, Cultural Wedding With a Custom Fit Guipure Lace Gown
We’re back with another beautiful Anomalie bride to feature! Intricate guipure lace and beaded cap sleeves take a starring role with this beautiful custom fit…
Outside the Box
Honeydew for You: The e-Wedding Planning Assistant
You call the shots for hundreds of decisions in your wedding, but it's hard to choose wisely when you don't know ALL of the options…
Bride Stories, Real Brides
A Stylish, Edgy Wedding Gown Sets the Tone for for this Modern Glam Wedding
This chic couple’s black and white wedding is the ultimate in sophisticated glamour. Get ready to obsess over every curated detail from Christine + Nelson’s…
#GetDressed, Wedding Dress 101
Take the Term ‘Blushing Bride’ to the Next Level with a Blush-Colored Gown!
One of the most romantic bridal trends we are obsessed with are blush-hued wedding gowns. This alternative to off-white is extremely flattering on nearly every…
Real Brides, Uncategorized
A Costa Rica Destination Wedding Featuring a Barefoot Bride in a Custom Anomalie Dress
From a below-zero Christmastime engagement to a picture-perfect beach wedding, this couple’s relaxed, barefoot-in-the-sand wedding has us dreaming of a destination wedding! Meet Paige, an…
Real Brides
This Kansas City Bride’s Modern Take on a Classic Gown
At one point or another, we've all dreamed of a ball gown that would put even the most refined princess to shame. You know the…
Stylist Advice, Wedding Dress 101
Meet The Overskirt: One Wedding Dress, Two Completely Unique Looks
If you’ve ever considered a reception dress, but don't want to completely change into a second dress, then we have the most amazing creative solution…
Real Brides
Sparkles + Chic Cutouts Make For a Truly Unique + Magical Dress
Once in awhile, every little bit comes together perfectly and magic happens. And it's safe to say that's what we have here. An original Anomalie…
Stylist Advice, Wedding Dress 101
Unique Details to Amp Up your Wedding Dress
Brides-to-be choose Anomalie for a multitude of reasons (cost, sizing and more) but we'd be lying if we didn't admit that making custom wedding dress…
Stylist Advice, Wedding Dress 101
4 Tricks to Selecting The Perfect Skin-Toned Illusion Tulle
There's something special, even sexy about an illusion wedding dress. We’ve seen an uptick in illusion tulle wedding gowns over the past year. Illusion tulle…
Real Brides
Boho Beauty Meets Classic Style For This Anomalie Bride!
When you create your custom wedding dress with Anomalie, not only do you get a gorgeous gown, but you also get welcomed into a very…
Bride Stories, Real Brides
An Effortlessly Romantic Custom Wedding Gown with an Adorable Dog Dress to Match!
We’re not sure what’s more amazing - this custom wedding dress or the fact that Anomalie bride Krishilda even had a bespoke dog dress made…
Real Brides
Rich Colors, Cozy Spaces, and SNOW – Read all of Jaimie’s Favorite Things about Planning a Winter Wedding
We are in the thick of "Wedding Season" at the moment, with hundreds of brides walking down the aisle this summer in their Anomalie custom…
Bride Stories, Real Brides
Maxi Sleeves Set The Stage For This Magical Wedding Dress
Here at Anomalie, we're proud to celebrate ALL brides-to-be....no matter your race, body type, or sexual orientation. We are custom wedding dress experts and…
Anomalie Corner
Trish Lee Bridal Joins Forces with Anomalie: Meet Trish
We are excited to announce Trish Lee Bridal is joining forces with Anomalie, as Trish take on the role as Chief Design Officer. For the past…
Outside the Box, Real Brides
Custom Wedding Dresses Inclusive of Every Beautiful Body
80% of women say they feel left out of the traditional boutique experience because of their body shape or size. That's not OK. We promise…
Anomalie Corner, Outside the Box, Stylist Advice
Looking Stylish All The Way Down To Your Shoes, For Every Bridal Event!
With all the attention on your wedding gown (rightly so, of course) ensembles for all your other bridal events can often take a back seat.…
Bride Stories, Real Brides
Love is Love: Celebrating Pride Month With A Custom Beaded Rainbow Wedding Dress
Inclusivity is one of our main pillars here at Anomalie and we’re proud to create beautiful wedding dresses for ALL brides. To celebrate the end…
#GetDressed, Stylist Advice, Wedding Dress 101
The Top 5 Spring 2019 Bridal Trends
Recently engaged? Congratulations! If you’re considering a Spring 2019 wedding or beyond, we’d love to create your dream wedding dress. Not sure where to start?…
Anomalie Corner
Why Are Wedding Dresses SO Expensive?
If you're shopping at traditional bridal boutiques, wedding dresses can be INSANELY expensive. But what are you even paying for? That glass of champagne? The…
Outside the Box
Anomalie x M.Gemi Bridal Collection: The Perfect Shoe for Everyone in Your Wedding Party
The next best thing to designing a custom wedding dress? Finding the perfect day-of shoe! At Anomalie, we have incredibly high standards for quality and…
Bride Stories, Real Brides
In Tribute: A Kate Spade Wedding Featuring a Custom Anomalie Dress
Like many of you, we were shocked and saddened to hear of designer Kate Spade’s passing earlier this month. Her cheeky, girly designs have been…
Real Brides
A Father’s Day Tribute to All the Anomalie FOBs
If Dads were in charge of creating all our custom wedding gowns, we'd need a LOT more fabric! We're thinking most dads would prefer a…
Anomalie Corner, Outside the Box
Why Anomalie? Affordable, Body Inclusive, Custom Wedding Dresses
When shopping for a wedding dress, brides have traditionally headed to bridal boutiques in search of “the one”, only to find overpriced, not-quite-perfect, ill-fitting compromises.…
Outside the Box, Stylist Advice, Wedding Dress 101
How to add some sparkle (tulle!) to your wedding dress
When it comes to wedding dresses, it can sometimes feel intimidating to tackle sparkle—every bride wants to shine throughout her day, but how much is…
Anomalie Corner, Outside the Box
Anomalie Gives The Royal Wedding Dress Treatment To All Brides-to-be!
A couple weeks may have gone by but we're still completely head over heels in love with the Royal Wedding (and in all honesty, we…
Outside the Box
Getting to Know Your New Wedding Planning BFF, The White Box
Here at Anomalie we're big believers in making your wedding as personal as can be. And we also know your Big Day isn't complete with…
Anomalie Corner
Give $100, Get $50 – The Anomalie Referral Program
Grab your girlfriends, we're opening up the pocketbooks for the first ever Anomalie referral program! Whether you're a past, present, or future Anomalie bride (or…
Outside the Box, Uncategorized
Connor from ABC’s The Bachelorette dishes about Becca and shows off his wedding dress knowledge!
Monday night's premier of the Bachelorette introduced us to 28 potential suitors for Becca Kufrin, who is ready to find love after her public split…
Anomalie Corner, Wedding Dress 101
Wedding Dress Trends: Crepe Designs
We pride ourselves on keeping up with - and ahead of - all the top trends in the wedding dress world and one that…
Anomalie Corner, Outside the Box
🌹The Bachelorette🌹 Anomalie Style
Move over The Bachelorette and Becca Kufrin there’s a new reality show in town 🌹The Silhouette. 🌹Anomalie bride, Liz, takes her pick of limitless wedding dress design options to…
Anomalie Corner, Real Brides
Alisha of Lish Creative Gives Us The Scoop On Her Fabulous, Fringy Anomalie Wedding Dress!
Here at Anomalie, we're all about really getting to know our brides and taking their individual style and designing a one-of-a-kind creation for them. But…
Anomalie Corner, Bride Stories, Real Brides
Anomalie Bride, Steph, Visits the Wedding Dress Workshops for the Big Reveal!
One of the very first Anomalie employees, Stephanie Ganias (also known at Anomalie HQ as Steph G) makes brides' dreams come true each day as…
Anomalie Corner, Outside the Box
The Big Wedding Planning Podcast: Anomalie starts a custom dress revolution
Christy and Michelle from the Big Wedding Planing Podcast sat down with the Anomalie team to talk about how they are revolutionizing the wedding industry…
Real Brides
Gatsby Meets Glam For This Romantic Lace Gown in New Orleans
Lace long sleeves may have caught everyone's attention when Princess Kate wore them seven years ago, but add in a dash of color and a…
Outside the Box, Real Brides
Customize Meghan Markle’s Second Wedding Dress from $800
The newly anointed Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, wowed the world not once, but twice when she stepped out in a bespoke Stella McCartney gown…
Anomalie Corner, Outside the Box
Customize Meghan Markle’s Dress for any Body Type – Without the Royal Price Tag
The long-awaited dress reveal for the royal wedding has arrived! We can all agree that Meghan Markle, newly bestowed as Her Royal Highness the Duchess…
Anomalie Corner
A Royal Sample Sale: Everything you need to know to buy your wedding dress
What to Expect Other than a life-size cutout of Prince Harry and plenty of boomerangs? Not only will we be selling a wide variety of…
#GetDressed
Fall Wedding Accessories for Brides and Grooms
Calling all fall brides! You may be popping the bottles of rosé in anticipation of all those summer soirees, but you’re also in the thick…
Outside the Box
What role will Meghan Markle play when she joins the royal family?
If you're as excited for the royal wedding as we are, join us on Saturday, May 19th at Anomalie HQ for "A Royal Sample Sale,"…
Outside the Box, Wedding Dress 101
10 Open Back Wedding Dresses For Major Gown Inspiration
Dreaming of an open back wedding dress? We got you! With Anomalie, you call the shots on how low you want to go by designing a…
Real Brides
Creating a classic bridal wedding dress with an unconventional design
Anomalie bride, Sabrina, takes advantage of the flexibility that designing a custom wedding dress has to offer by working with Anomalie to design a gown…
Anomalie Corner, Wedding Dress 101
Your Custom Wedding Dress: The perfect lookbook
Learn how to pull together your inspirations for your custom wedding dress to create the perfect Anomalie Lookbook. Julia not only works at Anomalie, but…
Real Brides
Why I chose a custom wedding dress: Calisa, San Francisco
Anomalie bride, Calisa, visits Anomalie HQ after her wedding day to catch up with her stylist and chat about her reasons for going custom for…
Real Brides
Caitlin’s gorgeous custom wedding dress for her Charleston, South Carolina wedding
We sat down for a chat with with Anomalie bride Caitilin, whose next level custom gown elements caught our eye! Perfect pockets, an unexpected floral…
Anomalie Corner, Wedding Dress 101
Wedding Dress Trends: Sleeves
From Pinterest searches to Spring 2019 New York Bridal Fashion Week there is one wedding dress trend that stands out: sleeves! Brides in all seasons…
Outside the Box, Real Brides
Anomalie wedding dresses are the answer for plus size brides
Chelsea Miller, body positive advocate and plus size model from LA, gives us a recap of her not-so-pleasant wedding dress shopping experience and describes how…
Anomalie Corner, Wedding Dress 101
Proper Wedding Dress Care
Your custom Anomalie gown just arrived on your doorstep (Yay!), but now what? To keep your wedding dress looking pristine for your big day,…
Anomalie Corner
Creating your custom wedding dress
https://www.facebook.com/DressAnomalie/videos/635850643428438/ Learn how Anomalie will bring your custom wedding dress to life. Leslie and Jaclyn talk through the entire process from scheduling an intro call,…
Wedding Dress 101
Traveling with your Custom Wedding Dress
Welcome to wedding season! Are you heading to the mountains, beach, or somewhere in between for your destination wedding? You've got enough to stress about,…
Anomalie Corner, Outside the Box, Stylist Advice
2019 Bridal Fashion Week inspired laces
Lace sometimes gets a bad reputation - we think of our grandmother's laces and of dated tablecloths. At Anomalie, we spend weeks sourcing everything from…
Outside the Box
Style Me Pretty Shutting Down and Why the Broken Economics of the Wedding Industry Matter for Brides
Post by Leslie Voorhees, CEO of Anomalie. At Anomalie, we’re in the business of making beautiful custom dresses, not opining on macro business trends. But…
Outside the Box, Wedding Guide
3 Ways to Give Back at Your Wedding with Amy Shackelford of Modern Rebel & Co
Amy Shackelford the founder of Modern Rebel & Co knows a thing or two about weddings (or "love parties" as she calls them). She has been…
Wedding Dress 101
From Chiffon to Georgette to Tulle: a Breakdown of Light and Flowy Wedding Dresses
When it comes to floating regally down the aisle or photoshoots on windswept vistas, there’s nothing like a long, flowing gown. If your dream dress…
Outside the Box, Wedding Guide
Wedding Photo Tips in Oakland, CA: Kathryn Rummel shares secrets for honest, compelling wedding photos
Creating beautiful wedding dresses is definitely a rewarding process, but seeing photos of our brides walking down the aisle in their custom creations is hands…
Anomalie Corner, Real Brides
Making my Custom Dress: From one Bride to Another
By Christina Gardner, an Anomalie Bride Finding the perfect dress was the first thing I wanted to do once I got engaged. I was certain…
Outside the Box, Real Brides
The Magic of Creating a Custom Wedding Dress
Scrolling through pictures of wedding gowns and bouncing around design ideas with your personal Anomalie stylist to create your custom wedding dress is lots of…
Real Brides
LIVE with Liza! Real Anomalie bride, San Francisco
Liza Dunning, a San Francisco bride, worked with Anomalie as her custom made silk crepe wedding dress to life. After trying on dress after dress…
Wedding Dress 101
Wedding Dress Silhouette Guide
Wedding dress shopping can be an overwhelming experience. It definitely isn't as straightforward as one would think, and certainly isn't always as magical like the…
Real Brides
Creating a custom wedding dress. LIVE with Erica!
As a part of a new Anomalie series, where we feature real brides on our Instagram live stream, Leslie chats with Anomalie bride, Erica, who…
Outside the Box, Wedding Dress 101
Lace – The top 5 trends for customizing lace on your wedding dress
Designing and creating lace have long been unique expressions of women’s artistry. Incorporating lace into a look is common amongst all fashion, not just in…
Wedding Dress 101
Wedding Dress 101: Your quick guide to key (and often confusing) wedding dress terminology
Most brides are not wedding experts. For most people it's an event you plan only once in your life and you step in and out…
Outside the Box, Wedding Guide
Capture the Moment with these 3 tips from photographers Jonnie + Garrett, Arizona Destination Photographers
When Janice, from San Francisco, got married in her Anomalie dress we were blown away by the ambience that Jonnie + Garrett captured through their stunning…
Real Brides
Why I Chose Anomalie: Alexandria, Illinois
Anomalie bride, Alexandria, had something very unique in mind before she even started wedding dress shopping and she was committed to not settling on a…