Chicago-based bridal designer Laurie Underwood of Laury Bride opens up to theGrio about life as a Black designer in the wedding industry. Laurie Underwood at work in her Chicago design studio. (Photo ...

Daley meets with a bride as many as 10 times during the process of creating her dream dress. She inter-mixes different laces and hand-beading to make the dresses as unique as possible but, she says, ...

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Gbemi Okunlola, designer and founder of the Alonuko fashion house opens up about her Nigerian heritage, stunning wedding dresses and Black brides deserving luxury. British-born, Gbemi Okunlola, has ...

I was not surprised to read about the trend of brides wearing black wedding dresses. After all, I’d worn a $200 off-the-rack black floor-length number to my own ceremony in 1996. That was a year ...

Good news for brides hoping to wear Black — meaning a Black designer — for their nuptials: the number of Black bridal designers in the industry is slowly but surely growing along with the demand. That ...