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 called The Bride's Guide: How to Plan for Rain on Your Wedding Day.

Sometimes all it takes is to be ready for the unexpected. A little planning can go a long way, especially when planning your wedding day. Planning for rain on your wedding day has been turned into a podcast by The Darianna® Diaries for your listening pleasure.

Learn some practical tactics if there is even a chance of rain in the forecast for your wedding. Our strategies will help calm your nerves and even help you create the most charming wedding photo opportunities!

Whether you are getting married outdoors or are having a ballroom wedding, our podcast on dealing with rain on your wedding day will help you enhance your day's enjoyment.

Have a Question?

Did you know you can contact the staff and owners of Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo by texting the store's telephone number: 215-491-8500. You can also start an online chat with them at: www.dariannabridal.com

Wishing You Happy Listening and Joyful Wedding Planning!

Wendy and Franco Salerno

Founders and Owners of Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo

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 fabric decision:

1. Season
2. Theme/Aesthetic
3. Sensory Issues

Take a listen to this informative podcast and be in the know about fabrics and things to consider when shopping for your wedding dress.

Have More Questions?

You can text the owners and staff of Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo with any questions or comments: 215-491-8500. We'd love to hear from you!

Wishing You Happy Listening and Joyful Wedding Planning!

Wendy and Franco Salerno

Founders and Owners of Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo

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 main considerations when it comes to wedding accessory decisions:

1. Weather
2. Style
3. Comfort

Enjoy this informative and useful podcast and reach out to us if you have any questions. You can text the store's telephone number and tap into the wealth of information our bridal and tuxedo store has learned over the years: 215-491-8500.

Wishing You Happy Listening and Joyful Wedding Planning!

Wendy and Franco Salerno

Founders and Owners of Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo

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 market waiting to speak to a new Australian wedding dress designer offering her dresses for the first time in the United States. That does not usually happen. We should know because we've been to many bridal markets around the country and we've never seen such a buzz. Something was up.

After viewing the designer's styles and designs, we understood why everyone wanted to offer these wedding dresses in their bridal stores! The dresses were unique and beautiful!

We reached out to the designer and waited several (painful) months for a response. They are located in Australia after all so we figured it would take time for them to make their rounds.

Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo then received a call from a long-time wedding designer representative that had been chosen as the new Madi Lane designer representative on the East Coast of the United States. We already knew him, had been working with him for many years and had a great relationship with him.

We immediately signed up as the exclusive bridal shop in the entire Philadelphia area offering Madi Lane wedding dresses. Our brides came from everywhere for these dresses, even many states away.

To this day, Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo offers the largest and best selection of Madi Lane bridal gowns in the Philadelphia region.

The Darianna® Diaries

Madi Lane bridal offers many new wedding dresses every year. In today's Darianna® Diaries podcast, we are featuring a beautiful new bridal gown by Madi Lane called Landon. Take a listen and see if Madi Lane is for you. You can also take a look at the original blog with photos and a short video of the dress called: New Madi Lane Wedding Dress We Love: Landon.

Contact Your Madi Lane Bridal Experts

You can contact the owners and staff of Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo any time. Text us at 215-491-8500. And if you live in the Philadelphia area, don't forget to make an appointment for our Madi Lane Trunk show between March 21st and March 23rd, 2025!

Wishing You Happy Listening and Joyful Wedding Planning!

Wendy and Franco Salerno

Founders and Owners of Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo

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 all worlds on your wedding day when it comes to train length.

Read all about these trains and see which one fits your style and big day.

Be sure to take a look at the original blog so that you can see photos of these different kinds of trains.

Have More Questions?

Did you know that you can communicate via text messaging with Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo: 215-491-8500. You can also start an online chat with the store owners and staff from its website. Ask us anything! We have an immense amount of experience dressing brides, grooms, mothers, fathers and ring bearers for weddings. You can also search our 500+ wedding planning blogs from our website.

Wishing You Happy Listening and Joyful Wedding Planning!

Wendy and Franco Salerno

Founders and Owners of Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo

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 accommodating these special requirements.

On a few occasions, however, we have accommodated a bride with mobility issues or a chronic illness. We were all too happy to help the brides experience a very special wedding dress shopping excursion.

Some time ago, we wrote a blog called Wedding Dress Shopping for Brides With Mobility Issues, Chronic illness. While not on the top of everyone's mind when wedding dress shopping, we found this to be an immensely useful blog for our brides, her guests and even our staff.

On today's Darianna® Diaries, we have boiled this blog down into a useful podcast and talk about the issues facing brides with less than ordinary requirements.

Take a listen and see if this podcast would be helpful for anyone you know.

Have More Questions?

Do you have more questions about this issue? You can text the store's telephone number at 215-491-8500. The owners and staff will personally answer your text.

Have an idea for a podcast or a wedding blog? Send us your idea and we will create a blog and podcast just for you!

Wishing You Happy Listening and Joyful Wedding Planning!

Wendy and Franco Salerno

Founders and Owners of Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo

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 make it part of the Darianna® Diaries podcasts.

In the podcast we discuss the main themes of the blog by advising what you, the guest, should wear when you go on the wedding dress shopping appointments with the bride. The first step is not to wear things to upstage the bride. It is her day, after all, and part of your job is to be supportive of her and make her feel like she is the most important person at the appointments.

#DeepDiveBridal

As with all of our podcasts, we go a little further than the original blog and cover other aspects of the bridal appointment. We go into the social media influence of the appointments, ways to be supportive of the bride, beyond what you wear and making the bridal shopping journey a happy and memorable day for the bride and her guests.

Most of the advice is practical and simple. Listening to this podcast and implementing even a few of the pieces of advice will make you the perfect guest for the bride.

Contact Us

Have more questions? Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo dresses thousands of brides and grooms every year and has a vast amount of knowledge and experience about wedding attire, wedding planning and wedding etiquette. Text our store's telephone number at 215-491-8500 and let us personally answer your questions!

Wishing You Happy Listening and Joyful Wedding Planning!

Wendy and Franco Salerno

Founders and Owners of Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo

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 blog written by Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo called How to Pick and Pack Your Destination Wedding Dress.

Take a listen for practical advice that will guide you in your bridal gown selection specifically for a destination wedding and how to safely and properly transport it to your wedding destination.

Have More Questions?

Do you have more questions about destination weddings or wedding planning? The experienced staff and owners of Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo would be happy to personally answer your questions. Text them at 215-491-8500 and get a personalized response.

Wishing You Happy Listening and Joyful Wedding Planning!

Wendy and Franco Salerno

Founders and Owners of Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo

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 plus size men's formal wear world can get tricky.

Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo recently wrote a blog covering this topic: Men’s Guide to Plus-Size Tuxedo and Suit Rentals. This is a comprehensive, deep dive into things to consider when dressing plus size men and wedding suit and tuxedo rentals.

The Darianna® Diaries

Turn the page and we feel that our plus size men's formal wear blog is the perfect candidate for our wedding planning podcast. Listen to this useful podcast full of advice, explanations and things to consider when shopping for suit and tuxedo rentals for your wedding.

More Information

Do you have more questions about dressing guys for your wedding? You can text our store's telephone number at 215-491-8500 and we will personally answer your questions. #deepdivebridal

Wishing you Happy Listening and Joyful Wedding Planning!

Wendy and Franco Salerno

Founders and Owners of Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo

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® Diaries

Given the popularly of the blog, we decided to feature the subject on the Darianna® Diaries as a podcast. Take a listen and pick up ideas for your wedding dress, wedding vibe, decor and more.

There's More Where this Came From

At Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo, we are committed to providing expert wedding advice and spend a lot of time and energy creating hundreds of wedding planning blogs each year. As you have learned from this podcast, we are now turning our blogs into podcasts for your listening pleasure.

Have a question? Text us at 215-491-8500 and the owners and staff of Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo will personally answer your questions! #deepdivebridal

Wishing you Happy Listening and Joyful Wedding Planning!

Wendy and Franco Salerno

Founders and Owners of Darianna® Bridal & Tuxedo