In honor of this week's Oscars and the inevitable posts about best and worst dressed, I thought I would post a few of my best and worst soap wedding dresses of all time.

 

BEST: no particular order:

 

Sloan Denning (Capitol) - so chic, good use of a headpiece, the dress was appropriate for such a big wedding and I think it holds up to the test of time

Kelly Capwell (Santa Barbara) - I love the nod to vintage fashion, this wasn't Kelly's first wedding so she kept it simple when marrying her fiance's evil twin 

 

WORST 

Hope Brady's multi-tiered veil seemed like it was used to make her the same height as Bo - I recall that the actress wore it again to her own wedding, (maybe it was still stuck to her head?).

Nikki Newman's 80 lbs gown was a little over the top for a woman on her third wedding

And finally, the worst of all time Eden Capwell's Pebble Beach Victorian Wedding - not the right dress for the occasion, setting, time, or place - it is so horrible that even the awful bridesmaid's dresses were not as gouache

 

Please respond with pictures of your favorite and least favorite ensemble 

Edited February 24, 20196 yr by j swift

Talking about Weird...

Yeah, imma still gonna go Calliope Jones Bradford as the weirdest gown ever. 

How about Cassie's (OLTL) garb in the mid-1980s? 😳😳😳😳😳

5 hours ago, amybrickwallace said:

How about Cassie's (OLTL) garb in the mid-1980s? 😳😳😳😳😳

 

I still think Calliope, but Cassie's is a pretty close second. 

I mean Calliope's had lights!

I think Cassie's outfit is more camp because it worn in earnest and supposed to be beautiful, while Calliope's was meant to be funny.

11 minutes ago, j swift said:

I think Cassie's outfit is more camp because it worn in earnest and supposed to be beautiful, while Calliope's was meant to be funny.

Exactly. Cassie's is unintentionally hilarious. 😂

One Life to Live did not have a great track record when it came to chic brides

First up Karen #1's wedding to Larry

Hard to pick which was uglier, Karen's bonnet or Dan's lil' Colonel Saunders bow tie

Poor Tina had plenty of opportunities, but never got a chic dress

That feathered veil did not compliment that bustline, and given that the actress was very small, the ensemble looks like she is being swollowed alive. 

Finally the ill-fated Marty/Dylan wedding

I'd be willing to bet that they only went through with the ceremony so that Marty could wear an iconic Vera Wang dress, (with her signature Nancy Kerrigan top).  Good news, Vicky later donated her wedding outfit to the church choir director Queen Latifah for the movie A Joyful Noise

What about Tina's gown with the cutout midriff from the mid-1980s? It looked straight out of a Vegas showgirl chorus line. 😂

I thought Sally's outfit for her aborted wedding to David Thatcher was very cute, much nicer than what she wore to marry Catlin which seemed rather generic.

 

Gotta love Quinn's crystal wedding snood

40 minutes ago, j swift said:

Gotta love Quinn's crystal wedding snood

Isn't that Henrietta with the bridal snood and Quinn in snoodless pink?

6 minutes ago, Xanthe said:

Isn't that Henrietta with the bridal snood and Quinn in snoodless pink?

You're indubitably correct

2 hours ago, Xanthe said:

I thought Sally's outfit for her aborted wedding to David Thatcher was very cute, much nicer than what she wore to marry Catlin which seemed rather generic.

 

Another memorable Felicia hat!! 😂

The aforementioned Sally(s)/Catlin wedding dress(es)

She loved a puffy sleeve in both forms and both hairdos were not very youthful

Rachel's look was a bit funereal

And apparently there were enough ruffles left over on Alice's dress to use as a cake topper

In black and white it is hard to tell where her hair stops and the veil begins

Edited September 23, 20214 yr by j swift

One more that I couldn't resist, because what else would one wear for their wedding to a TV evangelist in the 1980s but this ensemble from Knots Landing?

Even Tammy Faye Baker wouldn't have dared to wear this one gloved wonder. 

But Cathy could've ripped off the veil and reused the headband for a Jane Fonda workout.

Edited September 23, 20214 yr by j swift