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

That looks more like a bustier than a wedding dress, but it was the 1980s!! 😂

But. Twinkle lights.

And in fairness to Rachel's funeral dress, which wedding to Mac was that? 

But I do agree that Cassie's was atrocious. 

I think Felicia's worst hat is not a wedding hat. 

I'm a product of my age and kind of secretly love the big meringue wedding dresses. And the psuedo Victorian ones. 

Robin Wright had rather unfortunate wedding garb on SB twice - in 1985 to Joe and 1987 to Jeffrey:

18 minutes ago, amybrickwallace said:

Robin Wright had rather unfortunate wedding garb on SB twice - in 1985 to Joe and 1987 to Jeffrey:

The second looks slightly better but you're right pretty unfortunate 

How about Dorian's get-up for her wedding to Herb circa 1980? 😳😳😳😳😳

I truly, truly LOVE this topic. 

Uhm, yeah. Words fail me

The Dorian/Herb wedding was from that odd time when women would never wear white to the second wedding, but they would wear poofy sleeves and mismatched nail polish

I think the scarf was meant to convey that Dorian was happier at her fifth wedding (after Victor, Herb, Mr Sati, and her first marriage to David, this time she married Mel for the "right reasons"), she certainly looked younger

Her sixth go-round to Mitch Laurence was a bit of a hodge-podge (good dress, horrible hair), but it must be hard to find time to shop for a last minute surprise return to town marriage to the local cult leader.  I guess you know it's last minute when the huge bouquets totally clash with Dorian's color scheme of blush and bashful.

However, one of the historical crimes against good taste has got to go to Luna Moody.  Not only was it really out of character for such a "boho bride", but it also was never in style to wear a Snow White collar on a dress of velvet burnout herringbone chiffon on your wedding day

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Edited October 11, 20214 yr by j swift

Dorian's wedding dress from the Herb nuptials didn't just crack me up due to the hot pink color. Those sleeves!!! 😂😂😂😂😂

I always love Dorian's stance in that photo of her and Herb. "Yeah, I said yes to an ugly-ass dress. WANNA MAKE SOMETHING OF IT?!"

7 minutes ago, Franko said:

"Yeah, I said yes to an ugly-ass dress. WANNA MAKE SOMETHING OF IT?!"

Robin Strasser does not look pleased. 😂😂😂😂😂

Pretty dress and headgear, but perhaps we need another thread for worst wedding photo (ie crazy eyes)?

Remember the days when we got amused by how often Erica Kane had been married?  Now, it is standard operation procedure for a female character i their 40s to have been married at least three times.

Edited October 15, 20214 yr by j swift

One Life to Live does it again!  Someone recently posted one of the zillion of episodes related to Samantha Vernon and Asa Buchanan's wedding and all I could look at was this thing on her head

Another view, and can someone confirm who is standing next to Dorian? (and why is she in the reception line at the wedding?)

Meanwhile Edwina is wearing Chanel (The Banner must have paid their reporters well)

Finally, Dorian makes an inexplicable costume change between the ceremony and the reception

Edited November 20, 20214 yr by j swift

I can't understand why Dorian and Herb were in the reception line either. Was it Herb's position in the town at the time? I think he was either DA or Mayor or something.

That is Anthony George as Dr. Will Vernon, Sam's father, next to her. I know George best from Dark Shadows.

I can never get over Wanda Webb and Asa being cousins as an ongoing character beat for a decade In this era. They very regularly refer to each other as 'cousin'.

Edited November 20, 20214 yr by Vee

27 minutes ago, Vee said:

I can't understand why Dorian and Herb were in the reception line either.

Herb says a line at the ceremony that they can't keep their guests waiting, which I guess means that the reception was at Llanfair?

I may be all mixed up, but does this mean that they kept Olympia in one mansion, then Asa lived in another, and they had the reception at third mansion?

At least when AMC;s Cliff and Nina got married in 1908 (and Palmer's "dead" wife Daisy attended) it made more sense that it was at Palmer's home (with an outdoor area that we never saw again).

15 minutes ago, j swift said:

Herb says a line at the ceremony that they can't keep their guests waiting, which I guess means that the reception was at Llanfair?

I may be all mixed up, but does this mean that they kept Olympia in one mansion, then Asa lived in another, and they had the reception at third mansion?

At least when AMC;s Cliff and Nina got married in 1908 (and Palmer's "dead" wife Daisy attended) it made more sense that it was at Palmer's home (with an outdoor area that we never saw again).

Olympia was kept in Moorcliff, a mansion adjacent to the Buchanan's mansion. Dorian likely offered Llanfair to Asa for the reception.   At  around that  time, he was illegally donating funds to Herb's gubernatorial campaign. That is why Herb and Ed Hall had to resign after winning. Asa fixed the election.

Wow! Peter Bergman is 120 years old--just kidding. I catch myself editing dates in Hoppers and Cast Lists that  I switch all of the time when I've been typing for hours.