Real Wedding: Bridesmaids in Midnight Navy Cotton!

Joanna's May 2011 wedding in South Carolina at Furman University Rose Garden, 9 bridesmaids are wearing the pleated collar dress in navy. Photography by Chelsey Ashford.

Real Wedding: Bridesmaids in Cornflower Blue

Checkout these lovely photos from Corinne's August 2011 wedding, bridesmaids are wearing the Pleated Collar dresses and Maid of Honor is wearing the Country Dreams dress in cornflower blue. Wedding photography is by the extremely talented Lora Rodgers from Florida. The details in this wedding are so fun, matching ties for the groomsmen, cutest cupcakes ever with bicycle graphics, adore!

Happy Spring Dress Giveaway!

Congrats to Kel (yellow dress) and Engineer Amy (blue dress) winners of this giveaway! Please contact me to claim your prize. Thanks so much to everyone who participated, please check back for future giveaways.

Celebrating one of my favorite times of year, it's finally starting to feel like spring here in Chicago, it was a long winter but now the trees are blooming and tulips and daffodils are showing up all over the city! Soon it will be time to wear pretty summer dresses here.... and so I am starting a giveaway* for these 2 lovely smocked dresses, 1 size fits most (S, M, L) perfect for wearing over a bathing suit or cami on your way to the poolside or oceanside.

*Comment on this post your favorite color anytime this week: blue or yellow

I am giving away 2 dresses, 1 per winner

You can also tweet @designsdresses or Facebook your color choice, to be entered.

This is a random drawing, winners will be announced on Monday May 9th.

(Sorry private profiles or anonymous comments will not be included in the drawing)

Real Wedding! Bridesmaids in BLUE

The bridesmaids wore blue (sky blue to be exact) for Tiffanie's April 2010 wedding in Santa Fe Springs, California. Love the yellow and blue combo, so pretty and sweet!

Photography by Erin Hearts Court

Pleated collar dresses by Amanda Archer Collection

Bluette Trench Coat

I've mentioned in the past my love for designing coats, which I don't do so much these days, but here is Sonja from Germany wearing one of the classic Amanda Archer Collection coats! This is such a fun color to wear in the chilly spring months, it's 100% cotton so it's not as heavy as the wool coats I make for winter. ❤

Something Blue: Bridesmaids!

Sky blue dresses and silver flats, the perfect combo for a bridal party and a great way to follow the old saying:

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something BLUE, and a silver sixpence in her shoe.

I was super excited to get these pics from Megan's September wedding photographed by the extremely talented Alan Friedman. I'm now a huge fan of his work which really captures the excitement of the event.