20 of the gowns stolen during the break-in were couture dresses designed and created in-house by the owner, Patricia Onions. The owner of Patricia Couture revealed it would take her years to build up her bespoke collection again and is pleading with the people who stole the irreplaceable gowns, which have starting prices from £2,000 each, to return these dresses.

The other 20 dresses which were stolen after robbers smashed the front doors of the boutique were shop samples used for brides-to-be to try on. There dresses ranged in price from £1,000 each and Mrs Onions says these can be re-ordered, although the dresses will take 20 weeks to be delivered which she fears will have a detrimental effect on her business.

Luckily for brides who had ordered dresses from Patricia Couture for upcoming weddings, the gowns which the designer was currently working on were kept in another secure storage area and were not tampered with by the thieves.

The cost of the raid at the bridal boutique is expected to be many thousands of pounds, and police are calling for anyone with information with regards to the break in on Tuesday to get in touch.

Designed by David Emmanuel who was especially commissioned by Diana to create her royal wedding gown, the replica dress was never called into use on the actual wedding day itself, however it was seen by thousands when the dress was used on a waxwork model at Madame Tussauds for a special royal wedding display.

The ivory taffeta dress was sold by Madame Tussauds several years ago to an American collector who kept the dress in a private collection until its sale this week. The iconic gown sold for £48,000 yesterday with a fashion museum in Chile reportedly winning the bid.

The ivory slippers were designed to be an exact copy of Diana’s wedding shoes so that either the left or right shoe could be replaced with one of the replicas should either of the slippers had been damaged or stained during the wedding day.

The replica shoes were never actually paid for by Princess Diana’s mother, Frances Shand-Kidd, as she was unhappy with the final bill. The size 6.5 slippers, which feature the letters C and D on the soles, remained the property of the designer Clive Shilton, until this week when they sold for £36,000 at auction.

The wedding between Beyonce and rapper Jay Z was shrouded in so much secrecy that the newlyweds wouldn’t even confirm the wedding had even taken place until many months after the nuptials. The pair reportedly tied the knot in New York in 2008, holding the reception in a marquee at Jay Z’s Tribeca penthouse, decorating the space with 60,000 white orchids flown in from Thailand at a cost of $500,000.

No details have ever been released regarding what the bride wore, that is until this week when the footage was seen on as part of a video montage of important moments in the 30-year-old’s life which is released as her latest music video, I Was Here.

The former Destiny’s Child singer is seen grinning as she’s helped into her white strapless wedding dress. The dress features a plunging neckline and cascading train falling in deep folds flowing out behind the bride-to-be whose hair is scraped back and isn’t wearing even a scrap of makeup. Beyonce’s mother, Tine Knowles, was believed to have made the wedding dress for her daughter.

The brief clip of Beyonce in her wedding dress is seen as part of a collection of home movies featuring pivotal moments in the 30-year-old’s life including her performance at Glastonbury, footage from her time with Destiny’s Child and also the moment she announced her pregnancy this year. The video montage will be feature on Beyonce’s new DVD, Live at Roseland Elements.

The bright pink dress made its public debut over the weekend where it won the Alternative Miss Limo Pageant. The size 6 floor length gown uses 250 meters of hair made up of 10,000 individual hair wefts, decorated with 1,500 crystals and 12 individual underskirts. Weighing a massive 15 stone and costing a whopping £50,000, this is as far from your usual wedding dress as you’re likely to get.

The dress was created by eight designers at Thelma Madine’s Nico dress shop. The team of designers and seamstresses put 300 hours of work into the dress, spending a total of 12 days to make the dress from start to finish.

While the Nico studio has been responsible for dreaming up some incredibly flamboyant gowns in the past, the inspiration for this dress actually came from hair stylists at Liverpool salon, Voodau, who approached Thelma Madine with the idea for the one-off dress.

Speaking at the unveiling of the £50,000 hair gown, Nico owner Thelma described how she was pleased with how the dress had turned out, adding that thinks the quirky design would be perfect for someone like Lady Gaga who is famed for her outlandish choice of outfits.

Two of the Vera Wang designed wedding gowns worn by Kim Kardashian for her California wedding to Kris on August 20^th will be reproduced as affordable gowns for brides-to-be in the US, with the budget versions due to go on sale in January 2012 through David’s Bridal White by Vera Wang Collection.

However, there’s been speculation that the line maybe not sell as well as had been anticipated in the wake of the marriage break-up news as future brides may be wary of walking down the aisle in a dress which is associated with a marriage which ended in a speedy divorce.

4 million viewers tuned into Kim’s reality TV show which aired the fairytale wedding in all its glory. However fewer brides might be looking to snap up the $1,500 replica Kardashian dress now the marriage has soured so quickly.

However the official line from the wedding designer is that the gowns due to be launched early next year will have taken their inspiration from Kim’s gown, although they will be beautiful wedding dresses in their own right and likely to be appeal to brides despite its association with the ill fated marriage.

Displaying all of the same key features as seen on the original Pippa dress, including covered ivory buttons running down the back of the dress, capped sleeves and cowl neckline, the Debenhams version of the royal wedding bridesmaid gown is a dead-ringer for the Sarah Burton for McQueen designed gown – plus it’s a snip at just £170.

The high street version of the Pippa bridesmaid dress was officially launch in the Oxford Street Debenhams store this week, with a Kate Middleton lookalike drafted in to model the £170 gown.

As well as the ivory bridesmaid dress, Debenhams have also introduced their own adaption of the Alice Temperley emerald green gown worn by Pippa Middleton to the evening reception of the royal wedding, which is priced at £99.

The popular high street store say they are also in the process of developing flower girl dresses to match those worn by the young attendants at the wedding of the now Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at Westminster Abbey. The flower girl dresses are expected to be revealed in the coming months and priced between £48 -£52.

The musician, presenter and model broke the news of her nuptials on Twitter, unable to contain her delight at marrying her partner of 10-years, Graham Quinn, and also how she and her family and friends had managed to keep the whole occasion secret.

The 33-year-old was walked down the aisle, accompanied by her father Oscar Klass, at the historic St John’s Roman Catholic Church in Norwich, East Anglia on Friday, with the couple celebrating their union at a reception at the nearby St Giles Hotel. The mother-of-two was brought up in Gorleston near Great Yarmouth, and chose to stick to tradition by being married from the bride’s home.

According to reports, the wedding was as fuss-free as possible, with the newlyweds enjoying a quiet meal with their 16 guests before calling it a night by early evening, with the bride and groom tucked up in bed by 10pm.

Myleene met her now husband, when he was hired as a security guard to look after the singer and the rest of her band mates in Hear’Say back in 2001. The pair got engaged in 2005, but their wedding was postponed when Myleene fell pregnant with the couple’s first child, Ava who was born in 2007. Their second daughter Hero was born in March of this year.

Although the M&S model refused a celebrity magazine deal, she did give her fans a glimpse into her big day by posting an image of herself in full wedding finery alongside new husband Gray, as she refers to him. It’s believed celebrity stylist Kate Halfpenny created the wedding gown, working from an idea put forward by the bride-to-be herself.

The brides featured on the show told heartbreaking stories of how their big days were ruined after the handmade dresses they ordered from La Belle Bridal in Swansea started to fall apart at the seams before they even arrived at their wedding receptions.

The county council has confirmed they are also investigating La Belle Bridal after receiving dozens of complaints from unhappy brides who bought their dresses from the Swansea store, or ordered their bridal gowns but never received their dress.

With brides-to-be forking out anything from several hundreds of pounds to thousands of pounds for each dress, it was estimated that the total cost of dresses which fell below the expected quality standard ran into £100,000.

One unhappy bride described how she paid £2,000 for a handmade dress which started unravelling around the hem, with both straps falling off, before she’d even made it to her wedding reception.

Another unlucky bride described how she was told days before her big day that the dress she’d paid for in full would not be arriving, while another had to walk down the aisle in a dress which smelt strongly of damp.

The BBC show succeeded in tracking down the bridal shop owner, Carolyn Edwards, however she refused to give any comment. The complaints are being investigated by the county council however it’s not known if the brides will be reimbursed for their faulty dresses or the dresses which didn’t arrive.

It’s been reported that the £10 million raised from Buckingham Palace ticket sales this summer will be donated to charitable causes. A proportion of the money raised will also go towards the upkeep of the paintings and artefacts which form the Royal Collection.

Tickets priced at £17.50 for adults, sold out in a matter of days when they went on sale ahead of the summer opening of the London palace with extra time slots for official tours being added in order to cope with the demand. On the last weekend of the opening, people started queuing at 6am for their last chance to catch a glimpse of the Sarah Burton designed Alexander McQueen lace wedding gown which was displayed in the palace ballroom.

As well as the lace and tulle wedding gown, the veil, shoes, tiara and jewellery worn by the Duchess of Cambridge on her wedding day were also displayed, as was a number of official wedding photographs, and a tier from the intricately decorated wedding cake.

It’s estimated that 600,000 people visited the royal wedding exhibition as part of the summer opening of Buckingham Palace, beating the previous record of 420,000 visitors in 1994. However the final number will not be known until the official audit is completed.

Elena De Angelis married Ferdinand Pucci in a romantic ceremony in sun soaked Italy last week in a wedding the village of Casal di Princice is not likely to forget in a hurry. The crowds lined the streets as the wedding procession, including the 600 people drafted in to carry the veil, passed through the village streets.

After bride Elena arrived at the church for her wedding to groom Ferdinand, the 600-strong group of helpers worked quickly to carefully gather up the reams of silk before the couple stepped out of the church as husband and wife for the very first time.

The 1.8 mile veil has even made it into the Guinness Book of Records as the longest headdress ever worn by a bride on her wedding day. Designer Gianni Molaro Campania used 3.7 miles of white silk to create the record breaking veil with hundreds of seamstresses working for months to complete the work on the epic veil. The designer says he wanted his creation to symbolise hope and peace.