We talk wedding dress trends with one of the bridal world’s coolest design houses – Gaia Bridal. Trends exist for a reason – they are quite simply the style of dress that brides wear, or at least look for when they shop for their dress in a bridal boutique. Bridal trends tend to loosely follow catwalk trends – though not to the cutting-edge extreme we saw in Paris and Milan. Wedding dress trends change subtly and in bridal fashion ‘timeless elegance’ is almost always preferred over ‘haute couture’.

That said, it’s easy to see what’s en vogue by looking at the top designers, who we saw in all their finery at Bridal Week, Harrogate, including our good friends at Gaia Bridal, whose designer Maria Ryan certainly has her finger on the pulse. Here we select the gowns that hit those trends and some…