The Darianna® Diaries

What is a Basque Waist Wedding Dress? In our blog, Elegant and On-Trend: The Basque Waist Wedding Dress , we explain everything about this type of waist on a bridal gown and how it is trending. In The Darianna® Diaries podcast, we go deeper and discuss this trend even further. Take a listen to this podcast and learn some other options that you may not have thought of for your wedding dress design....

Food for Thought When Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo first communicates with a bride by text message or in person, we always ask where the wedding will be held. Is it an outdoor wedding, an indoor wedding, a ballroom wedding or a barn wedding? There are so many wonderful choices that go beyond what we just listed. The reason we ask these questions is because we want to advise properly as to the sty...

Lightning Struck Twice For Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo , lightning struck twice. The family-founded and owned bridal and tuxedo store located in the Philadelphia area was first featured on Apple News. A year or so later, Apple reached out again and asked if Apple could use this local business in its ad campaigns. How it all came about was written in a blog called: Our Family Business - From Appl...

Kitty Chen Couture Wedding Dresses A few year's back, famed wedding dress designer, Kitty Chen showed up at Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo. While we offer bridal gowns from many different wedding dress designers , that particular day, 5 wedding dresses being tried on and picked up by brides were from the designer Kitty Chen Couture . You should have seen the brides' faces when they realized that th...

Mom's Opinion Over the years, we have seen the strong bond between mothers and daughters, especially during wedding dress shopping. We've seen these relationship up close during the thousands of bridal appointments Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo . In addition, the store's name "Darianna" is the combination of the founders and owners daughters' names: Daria and Deanna . So we know a thing or two abo...

Learn From Experience They always say it's better to learn from someone else's experience and certainly from their mistakes. The founder and owner of Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo, Wendy Salerno , was recently a mother of the bride . Her daughter, Daria had a New Year's Eve wedding, that was magical, by the way! After a long time planning, this mother of the bride and insider wedding professional...

Starting from Nothing Anyone who has started or owned a business knows that the avenue to success is never a straight line. Scaling a business to profitability is a unique experience that takes grit, perseverance, hard work and yes, sometimes a little luck. Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo wrote a blog called, Our Success Story - How Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo Started . Listen about the ups and do...

Wedding Gown Cleaning and Preserving So your wedding is over and you had an amazing day! Congratulations! So what do you do with your wedding dress now? Don't let it sit in your closet or attic and become yellow because there is a better option. As part of Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo's Bride's Guide , we created a blog called Wedding Gown Preservation . This blog discusses wedding gown preservat...

The Long Awaited Wedding Dress Many brides try on sample wedding dresses and then order a new dress in their proper size. On average, it takes 3 - 4 months for a new wedding dress to be made by a bridal gown designer. Some designers keep an inventory of dresses and make them available immediately, but most wedding dresses have a wait to be made. That's why you will hear people advising brides to s...

Storing Your Wedding Dress At Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo , we know that your wedding dress is a very important and meaningful purchase. It's for one of the most important days of your life so let's make sure you take care of it! We wrote a blog called How to Store Your Wedding Dress Before Your Big Day . The blog covers years of experience and advice we have given our brides when they come to p...

Did You Know It's a Poem? When it comes to weddings, we've all probably heard the saying " Something Old, New, Borrowed, and Blue" . Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo wrote a blog on the origin of this saying and it turns out it is an old poem. Listen to The Darianna® Diaries and hear about this blog, a discussion about the poem and the history and deeper meanings of the saying. With over 500 wedding...

Bling Without the Veil At Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo , we have learned that not every bride wants to wear a veil with her wedding dress. But she sometimes wants an accessory to enhance her look and bridal gown, without it being a veil. We have good news for you! We have written a blog called The Best Alternatives to a Traditional Wedding Veil . It is a short piece but very useful. The Darianna®...

Crepe Wedding Dresses Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo loves crepe wedding dresses! In fact we wrote a blog called 3 Things to Love About Crepe Wedding Dresses . That blog is the basis for this Darianna® Diaries podcast. Take a listen and learn the three things we love about these bridal gowns. The podcast goes a little deeper into crepe wedding dresses and discusses other interesting considerations...

Learn All About Wedding Favors How important are wedding favors for your big day? Are wedding favors still a thing? In today's Darianna® Diaries podcast we will answer these questions and many more. The podcast was inspired by Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo 's very popular blog of the same name: Best Modern Wedding Favors Your Guests Will Love . What Are Today's Common Wedding Favors Not only do we...

It's Always Better to Be Prepared Over the years, as our brides and grooms' wedding days approach, the staff at Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo can see how nervous some become about the weather forecast. Who can blame them?! It's a big day and everyone deserves the perfect day and that includes the weather. Because of the nervous tension about the weather on your weather day, we created a blog calle...

Wedding Dress Fabrics There are so many fabrics to choose from when shopping for a wedding dress. Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo created a very popular blog called Satin, Organza, Chiffon Fabrics, What Do They Mean? This blog was turned into a podcast on the Darianna® Diaries. In the podcast, many different fabrics are described but most importantly, three considerations are discussed when making a...

Wedding Accessories or Not? Do you want to wear wedding accessories with your bridal gown? Some brides do, others don't. It certainly is a personal choice. If you want to explore wedding accessory options, we have a podcast just for you. Based on Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo 's blog called Wedding Accessories We Love: Sleeves, Veils, Headpieces . We cover a lot in the podcast, but hit on three ma...

How Madi Lane Bridal Came to Philadelphia Madi Lane is an amazing Australian wedding designer that was discovered by Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo by accident. Several years back, the founders and owners of the store were speaking to owners of a bridal store in the Chicago area by telephone. The owners of the Illinois store said that there was a line of 30 bridal shop owners at the Chicago wedding...

Wedding Dress Train Lengths Who knew there are so many bridal gown train lengths? Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo wrote a blog called 5 Wedding Dress Train Lengths . That blog is the basis for our Darianna® Diaries podcast today. We go into the details of these five different train lengths, their benefits, when would be most appropriate to have which kind of length and how you can have the best of a...

Mobility Issues and Wedding Dress Shopping Over the years, Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo has accommodated special needs when it comes to bridal gown appointments. Many of those needs included mobility issues and illnesses of guests attending the bridal appointments. They were grandmothers, elderly aunts and parents experiencing health issues. Fortunately, our store's layout is very conducive to ac...

Lucky You! If you are one of the lucky ones invited by the bride to accompany her to her bridal gown appointments, congratulations! You clearly mean a lot to the bride and her wedding dress shopping journey. Keeping the Bride in Mind Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo wrote a blog called Guest Attire: What to Wear to a Wedding Dress Appointment . This has been an immensely popular blog so we decided to...

Destination Wedding Dresses We love destination weddings! They are fun, beautiful and often create lifetime memories for the bride, groom and even the guests. Some destination weddings can have unique challenges. Two of those challenges include choosing the appropriate bridal gown and packing it for the journey to your destination wedding. In this episode of The Darianna® Diaries, we discuss a blo...

Plus Size Tuxedo and Suit Rentals On average, a wedding party has 7 groomsmen standing with the groom. Many have more groomsmen. With a party that large, you are bound to come across groomsmen and grooms who require larger tuxedo and suit rentals and even a wide range of sizes. Some, but not all bridal and tuxedo shops carry larger sizes for you to try on and rent for your wedding. Navigating the...

Creative Wedding Themes Are you looking for a unique and fun wedding? Do you not fit the mold of a fairy tail, princess bride? Well we have just the blog for you: Ideas for a Moody, Dark Forest Wedding Theme . This is a very popular topic at Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo because every year, we host a black wedding dress trunk show. And of course the show coincides with Halloween! The Darianna® Dia...

Bridal Gown Sizing and You Let The Darianna® Diaries explain to you how wedding dress sizing works. Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo wrote a blog called Size-Inclusive Wedding Dress Guide and it is now available as a podcast. All brides deserve to feel and look beautiful on their wedding day. In addition, your wedding dress appointment should be fun and relaxed. In order to allow you to feel confiden...