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2012 has proved to be a year with stunning variety in wedding gowns. Three notable trends in wedding gown fashion are also showing up in wedding invitations, giving brides more choice and ways to express personal tastes and style than ever. Here’s a look at three gown-to-invitation trends we notice:

TREND 1: Vintage Lace

The Brit’s royal influence on the return of sleeves and lace is certainly unmistakable. But also responsible is the ongoing love affair with all things vintage. Maybe it’s our attraction to a perceived authenticity of items produced in an era before big box stores, a craving for uniqueness, workmanship, and hand-crafted quality. These are obvious qualities to the lace and intricate fabric detail seen on many of this year’s wedding gowns.

TREND 2: Shimmer

Another noticeable wedding gown trend has been the flash of metallic found in wedding gown fabrics. Shimmer is everywhere–and in some ways counters the resurgence in lace. A far cry from the minimalist simplicity of the nineties and into the new millennium, today’s designers put no limits to the flash with which they adorn their dresses. Slipping into some of this year’s latest designs is in fact like wearing a piece of jewelry on your body. (And in some cases the price tag may reflect this!)

TREND 3: Color

A third notable wedding gown trend is color. Whether a dash from a sash or belt, or the shading of an entire gown in a color, brides aren’t limited to white and ivory. We’re not saying the Vera Wang line of red wedding dresses seen at this spring’s wedding fashion week is going to overtake white. But there is a trend toward discerning your very perfect shade of white along the spectrum, along with champagnes, blushes, pinks and blues, and certainly silver and gold from the metallic trend just mentioned.

To truly appreciate how extensive these trends are in wedding invitations, look no further than the collection of unique wedding invitations online at http://www.looklovesend.com/wedding.cfm. Lace, shimmer, color, plus other highly original design elements create a gorgeous collection of complete wedding invitation suites with which you can coordinate your wedding day style. Enter our monthly Wedding Invitation Sweepstakes for the chance to win $500 towards your choice of wedding invitations, wedding save the date cards, and all your personalized wedding stationery needs.