How to Choose Gloves to go with a Wedding Dress

Once a staple wedding accessory, formal gloves are now considered a optional wedding statement. For some, deciding whether to wear gloves with a wedding dress can be difficult. Here are a few simple suggestions to help you decide.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Decide how formal your wedding will be and if you want to wear gloves at all. Formal church weddings are more conducive to wearing gloves than backyard weddings.

2. Pick a dress. Certain dresses look better with gloves than others. Sleeveless and strapless dresses look stunning with long elbow or above elbow length gloves while dresses with short or long sleeves look better with shorter gloves.

3. Choose gloves that match your dress. If you dress is made of satin, you will want your gloves to be made of satin as well. Your gloves should also match the overall style of your dress. If your dress is ornately decorated you may want to consider having simple gloves to ensure that the focus is not taken off your dress.

4. Decide how you will accommodate the exchange of rings. Fingerless gloves are often a good choice, since they add a sense of formality while allowing for a simple exchange of the rings. Other gloves can either be slipped off for the exchange or fashioned so that the ring finger is removable. If your ring is large enough, it may be able to slide over the glove.

Tips & Warnings

• There are no hard rules. It is your wedding day and you should wear the gloves you want, no matter what anyone tells you.

[xavierob]

on 5/3/2009 fingerless gloves are crap. Since they don't have 'fingers', it's completely useless and it looses of the formality that such accessories add. Also, you shouldn't ask whether you should keep them all day long or not; since you chose to wear gloves (which is a really good decision), that means that you like gloves, so don't hesitate and wear them for the entire day and night if you want to! It's YOUR day!