The Wedding Dress

Beautiful Wedding Dresses, Accessories and Bridal Party Gowns for Your Lesbian or Gay Wedding

The Wedding Dress is a quaint boutique conveniently located at 222 Main Street in Portland, Connecticut. The Wedding Dress features a diverse selection of unique wedding dresses for brides, bridesmaids, mothers, and flower girls, in addition to a wide selection of headpieces, custom veils, lingerie, jewelry, and shoes.

Our boutique is co-owned by an award winning designer who has worked in the fashion district in New York City, and has been honored by fashion icons such as Bob Mackie and Marc Jacobs. She even designed a black lace wedding dress for Gianni Versace.

Our inventory has been personally selected to create a collection of striking wedding gowns for the petite to the plus size woman. We also carry dresses for bridesmaids, mothers, flower girls, special occasion, and prom, as well as jewelry, shoes, veils, undergarments, and more.

Our family operated salon's knowledgeable consultants will gladly work one-on-one with you to create your ideal look. Come visit The Wedding Dress, and we are sure that you will find that "distinctive style for your walk down the aisle!" Walkins are welcome, but appointments are recommended.

The Wedding Dress - Reviews

Shelley and her team made me feel like a princess, like I was the only bride they were working for. Before I went to the shop, I had an idea in mind for what I wanted for my dress and luckily Maria pulled a "what not to wear" on me and found me THE best DRESS!!! I was very happy with the service that The Wedding Dress offered, my only regret is that I did not get my attendants dresses there. Very personal and very professional. Great shop.

This is a small shop but has a good amount of dresses considering the size. They had some very different dresses in here, in terms of styles and designers I hadn't tried on elsewhere. Lisa that works here is fabulous!! She is so nice, not pushy and will give you an honest opinion. She was very patient with me. They had dresses to fit a variety of budgets. I tried on some of the sales dresses and despite being samples, they were in great shape because they help you in and out of the dresses carefully so if you are really on a budget or in a hurry, don't hesitate to go here to look at samples. They also had some very pretty veils and headpieces here. I think it is worth the drive to go look here. They are pretty busy Thursday nights and Saturdays so if you can make a Friday morning appt, you can get in sooner.

Dear Shelley and Staff: Thank you so much for everything you did to make me look so lovely on my wedding day. The whole day was beautiful and everything went smoothly. You all helped make it possible, and I really appreciate it. Please take good care.

Fondly, Lisa

Hi Shelley: I just wanted to drop you a note to let you know that I absolutely loved wearing my gown throughout my entire wedding day. Everyone was so complimenting the dress and it fit to perfection. Thank you so much!!! I will show you some pictures as soon as I can. Hope everything is going well, and I’ll talk to you soon.

Kelley