Many customers have come to us requesting to hire prom dresses for events they are attending this month.  So, we couldn’t hesitate to update anyone wanting to hire a prom dress on the lovely designer prom dresses we currently have gracing the prom dress hire section of the copacious GirlMeetsDress wardrobe.

Hire Prom Dresses for May-Dates

May events that have got people turning to us to take care of their prom dress hire ‘needs’ are the World Superyacht Awards, the Pirates of the Carribean Premier, and the Royal Caledonian Ball, to name a few. Oh, and for all fauna fans out there, there’s the Chelsea Flower show that falls at the end of this month.  There are very few dresses at GMD HQ without a ‘May-date’.  But, don’t despair. Several glamorous gowns are still gracing our hangers, in wait of the perfect May-date, so time is of the essence to hire.  Prom dresses get a bad name, and many might think twice about their hire. Prom dresses, on the contrary, should not be a dress option that is overlooked.

Prom Dresses РHire the Cr̬me de la Cr̬me of Prom Dresses With no Strings/Frills Attached

Prom dresses don’t have to mean poofy pink monstruosities, worthy of the finest and cheesiest teen school leavers’ dance. Blair Waldorf’s quote sums up the changing attitude to prom and its rituals: ‘We don’t do prom queen; that’s for suburban high schools and the lame teen comedies that are set at them.’  What’s more, Blair’s prom dress, a couture Marchesa gown, could not be further from a sugary pink blob right out of a suburban rom-com prom-tale. (Just as well, prom date Nate doesn’t turn out to be her true prince!)

Prom Dress Hire Designers of the Moment

You couldn’t really get any closer to couture than the fabulous ‘Full Moon’ Ruth Tarvydas prom dress. Hire: £99 (It was over £600 at full price!).  Another picture-perfect hire prom dress that will ensure you cut a dash is this sultry Suzannah ‘Corsage Maxi’ prom dress.  Hire it for £79- originally, the dress retailed at £525.   Yet another fantastic member of the hire designer prom dresses collection is this Omar Mansoor prom dress. Hire yourself a piece of the British designer’s action for just £79- it’s RRP was originally £540! And finally, the Amee Lou Floris dress (top)-one of our favourite designer prom dresses. Hire for £69, when you would have had to buy it for £300. Proof, if it were ever needed, that prom dress fairytale endings really do exist. Even if prom fairytale endings might not.

The day when fairytale became reality saw the elegant Buckleberry bride marry her prince in a divine Alexander McQueen gown designed by Sarah Burton.  The now Duchess of Cambridge was positively glowing in her ivory and white satin floor-length gazar gown, with a full skirt and elegant white English and French chantilly lace heart-shaped bodice- narrowed at the waist and padded at the hips- a signature McQueen trademark. The bride’s face was covered by a delicate veil, crowned by a 1936 Cartier tiara on loan from her now grandmother-in-law.  Honouring the royal tradition, Catherine Middleton’s posey contained a sprig of myrtle taken from the tree planted in Queen Victoria’s garden; all royal brides including Diana have carried a myrtle sprig from the same tree on their wedding days.

The ceremony couldn’t have gone more smoothly, and with the vows said, spectators’ attention then eagerly turned to the balcony as we witnessed that slightly awkward ‘peck’ followed by a second newlyweds’ kiss.  Congratulations to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge! With most of the officialities over, the royal couple can let their hair down a bit and enjoy the festivities-well perhaps not Wills, given his brother’s doing the best man speech.

Less than 24 hours before her wedding day, Kate Middleton’s wedding dress remains shrouded in mystery.  With the world and his wife trying to guess the designer of the Prince’s soon to be wife’s dress, it’s no wonder the Guardian decided to send out an opinion poll on the matter.  ‘Crowdsourcing’ the event, readers predicted a Libélula dress in ivory for the bride.  Our choice too- we happen to be big Libélula fans! (And we should mention, have a lovely range of Libélula dresses available to hire).  But for now, back to Kate Middleton’s wedding dress.  Of the 3,000 people that took part in the Guardian’s poll, 20% plumped for Temperley to dress the bride on her fast-approaching big day.

Kate Middleton’s Wedding Dress – Your Predictions

Inspired by this public effort, we decided to ask you on your Kate Middleton wedding dress designer favourite. Amongst some of the answers we got, popular choices included Kate Middleton designing the wedding dress herself, while other Tweeters hoped to be see Kate Middleton in a Libélula dress tomorrow.  Alexander McQueen (of course) featured on the Twitter grapevine, as did Issa, a strong candidate, that is, if Kate Middleton plumps for a non-British designer- unexpected, but then, perhaps it would prove a welcome surprise!

Kate Middleton’s wedding dress is currently by far the most hotly contested issue in Britain, and perhaps even the world. Wedding dress designers in the running  as top candidates to be designing Kate Middleton’s wedding dress have the following odds stacked against them:

Kate Middleton’s wedding dress designer to  be Sarah Burton: 4/11

Kate Middleton’s wedding dress designer to be Phillipa Lepley: 5/2

Kate Middleton’s wedding dress designer to be Libelula/Sophie Cranston: 9/2

Kate Middleton’s wedding dress designer to be Bruce Oldfield: 9/2

Kate Middleton’s wedding dress designer to be Alice Temperley: 5/1

Kate Middleton’s wedding dress designer to be Christopher Bailey: 5/1

Kate Middleton’s wedding dress designer to be Jasper Conran: 7/1

Amongst betting shop Paddy Power’s terms and conditions was that the wedding had to take place before the end of 2012 (there’s really no going back now for Katie, is there?) and that the designer had to be confirmed by a royal spokesperson.   For those who aren’t on the money for Katie’s bridal gown at the official ceremony, they can always bet on the designer of her evening dress, how late she is, the length of her train, or on her tiara choice.  Then there’s even the sermon length, sermon clichés, and the colour of the Queen’s hat- reassurance for Katie-in-waiting that at least in the betting world not all the focus is on her.

The In Vogue Designers for Kate Middleton’s Wedding Dress

The world and his wife are still beside themselves as to who Kate’s wedding dress designer will be, with a flurry of designers passing ‘in’ and ‘out’ of bridal-gown-authorship-vogue every day.  Last week saw a media frenzy sparked around the prospect of a Libelula wedding dress for Kate, following her being spotted in a Libelula coat earlier that year.  Subsequently, the boutique’s website crashed, given the unexpected onslaught of press attention and publicity such speculation had brought for the Chelsea based dress boutique.  Just a day before the royal nuptials, Bruce Oldfield was reported to have ruled himself out, as did Dame Vivienne Westwood, who intimated that Kate and her label were not natural style bedfellows.  And what with Alice Temperley reported to be dressing Kate’s mother and sister Pippa, it would seem a bit unlikely Kate Middleton’s wedding dress would be coming from the same designer.

Sarah Burton or Jasper Conran – Still Contenders for the Bridal Gown Design?

The obvious answers of Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen and Jasper Conran (reported in the Telegraph as a ‘safe choice for a classic bride’) seem to have been heard on the grapevine for so long that speculation around these designers has already waned.  And then what about non-British designer – Kate’s daytime dress go-to favourite and the designer she wore for her engagement, Issa?  Frankly, all this speculation is growing rather tiring.  It’s almost as if we’d have been content for Nina Ricci creative director Olivier Theyskens to have given it away while he was being interviewed the other day at Tribeca Film Festival- something which very nearly happened, as he blurted out that he ‘[knew] who does it!’ when interviewed.

Kate Middleton’s Wedding Dress – Enough is Enough!

Enough with the speculation! Even Grazia, who purported to be giving us some concrete info about the dress, following Paula Reed being present at the rehearsal this morning was only able to offer an update regarding Kate Middleton’s train length being 4-5 metres long, and nothing much to do with the dress itself. Whoever the designer, Kate Middleton’s wedding dress will go down in history and like Miss Middleton herself, succeed in winning everyone over.