Morilee Wedding Dresses: The Ultimate Guide

What started a small family business in New York City in 1953 has now become a wedding gown staple designer nationwide. Morilee wedding dresses are the pinnacle of gorgeous, dramatic wedding gowns. We at Queenly love this designer; not just for the wedding dresses though!

Did you know Morilee has made it a point to also become a staple in pageants, mother-of-the-bride looks, bridesmaid styles, and quinceañera dresses? They want to specialize in every style of gown women need to bring the most style and quality to every woman everywhere. Their goal as a design house is to be available and relatable to every woman regardless of shape or size. We think that is a beautiful thing.

Morilee does it all, but today is all about the brides. Head designer Madeline Gardner truly believes that wedding dress designs that are done right are magical, and we love this thinking. She puts her heart and soul into every Morilee gown and the care shows.

While the designer started small, with only a handful of shops selling their specialty gowns in the beginning, they have become a household name for weddings in recent years. Their gowns literally have global access and universal adoration.

The best part is, they have a serious standard for quality at really affordable prices. Many of their gowns are around or just under $1,000. Which for gorgeous beaded and lace wedding gowns that still put quality as the number one priority is unheard of.

And when we say attainable, we do mean attainable; Morilee has a full collection devoted just to plus sizes, so when they say every bride and every woman they really do mean it. It is so important to be size-inclusive because women of every shape and size matter and deserve to look and feel their best, especially on their wedding day. Fuller figured women shouldn’t be forced to shop at different stores and a designer who understands this and does something about it is a designer we can get behind!

One of the main style points for Morilee gowns is the exaggerated elegance of their gowns. The drama! We love the drama. The styles are fitted and sophisticated but offer every woman a chance to show off their curves and feel sexy and feminine on their wedding day. Styles are made to stand the test of time but are always in tune with the latest trends so every bride is timeless but fashion-forward.

The Blu collection offers the most seductive of styles that offer eye-catching and thought-provoking details that require a double-take. Subtle cowl necklines are trending but offer a fashion statement that will never go out of style. These styles are meant to emphasize every curve a woman has to offer and showing off skin is definitely in.

Subtle sheer bodices and off-the-shoulder styles are the perfect way to accentuate and elongate the neck and make women of all body types feel beautiful. Thigh-high slits are also added for a sexy touch on a gown to give a peek-a-boo detail when you walk. The natural movement of the dress will give way to the slit and show off a bit of leg and be the perfect detail to wow guests.

Madeline Gardner created a collection for Morilee that is the perfect combination of sexy and sweet. The collection offers gowns with straps and long sleeves that offer more support and cover a little more, but the designs are form-fitting and have sheer details to add a little intrigue.

Morilee also has designs that put style and class at the forefront of their couture collection. These are gowns that are perfect for black tie formal weddings; they are gowns in the most luxe of fabrics and many feature the most intricate of details. These include delicate laces, intricate beading, and beautiful embroidered designs.

The AF Couture collection from Morilee features their most expensive gowns, but as we’ve stated before, these gowns are a lot more reasonable than other gowns of similar style from other designers. This means that even if these are their highest prices, you are still able to consider these styles for your wedding!

This collection is all about creating the most focal point and attention in the dress. The number of details will have the eye constantly searching to find everything your gown has to offer. It is the perfect option for a bride that wants to get the absolute most out of their wedding dress. Details like these ensure that every eye is on you at every turn on your big day. It’s like the most extra, but in a really good way.

If understated elegance is more your thing, then Morilee features a gown collection called The Other White Dresses. It’s a collection of wedding gowns that are simple but so beautiful and come in a variety of cuts to help accentuate any woman’s natural curves. These are gowns that don’t have any excessive detail or pattern but offer so much beauty and style for any woman that wants the dress to be less of the focal point.

The Other White Dresses come in silk crepe designs; a fabric that hangs and drapes on the body in a very complimentary way. It’s a fabric that is great for women of all shapes, as it will only be as form-fitting as the style wants, so the material will offer natural movement and still give you a lovely feminine shape.

Another great selling point for these gowns is the traditional necklines that they utilize. When you mix a simple style with a popular neckline you get a timeless silhouette that will be fashionable forever. Thanks to the wedding gown of Duchess Meghan Markle, the bateau neckline is back in style and Morilee gowns use it to their advantage.

They also have done a fantastic job of creating beautiful silhouettes featuring the portrait neckline. It is a very traditional cut, but one that emphasizes the bust and elongates the neck, all while bringing attention to the face to really show off that wedding day glow.

Modern modesty is a popular trend at the moment; it’s a way for women who adhere to a modern way of dressing without compromising fashion and style. Take Paris Hilton’s gorgeous wedding dress, for example. Thanks to gown collections like Grace by Morilee, women who require more covered-up designs can still find gowns by big designers.

They are beautiful designs that feature the fit and flare and ball gown silhouettes; options that still compliment a woman’s figure without being too form-hugging. These gowns also have higher necklines, and shoulders predominantly covered. Meaning that each gown will have either a long or short sleeve, the shortest option being a cap sleeve style.

We’ve said that Madeline Gardner’s main goal is to achieve a timeless look with modern and trendy details; she does just that with the Grace collection. The necklines are traditional wedding gown styles: scoop neck and high cut v-neck styles. Each has a very traditional neckline that will never go out of style, but the scoop has come back in style and is a beautiful feminine silhouette that doesn’t reveal any skin that could be considered immodest.

The v-neck cut is a great style for designers that want to stick to modest silhouettes because it does add a level of femininity without being revealing, and isn’t the most traditional style for wedding gowns. What this does is mix a casual neckline with a formal gown and create a trendy style all its own.

Morilee designs come in a great variety of sizes, but they also have a collection of gowns called Julietta that is made exclusively in extended sizes. This is so the gowns can be designed with certain cuts for fuller figures as well as designs that can handle extra support without compromising any of the styles.

The gowns are gorgeous and have the same attention to detail as any of the other collections. Many gowns don’t look any different than any styles that are featured in other collections, but the necklines do feature added boning to the bodice as well as skirts in more organza silk or tulle versus crepe.

This is so the gown can have the same flattering effect for a fuller figured body that an athletic body type would get with crepe silk. When you use the silk option with slightly more volume, it creates a tapered waist that gives off a slimming silhouette.

What we love about the Julietta collection is it isn’t meant to make women want to hide their figure; women should love their bodies no matter what! Morilee’s design intention is to accentuate and highlight the figure in the most flattering ways and that is what this collection achieves.

We can’t help but highlight the women out there who like to stray away from tradition. The brides that want to push the limits of bridal and take fashion-forward a step further.

Maybe that means a blush pink ball gown, or at least a skirt or bodice with some color other than the traditional range of white shades, and we love that Morilee also designs gowns that can be utilized to create some style moments.

You deserve to have the wedding day of your dreams and if that means something a little different than the typical wedding styles, well Morilee has you covered! They have beautiful ball gowns of tulle and ruffled options in blush colors, which are trendy ways right now to break from bridal tradition. Still very formal and translate well to bridal, but not the typical styles and colors that you expect to see.

These dresses offer a little pattern for brides, specifically floral, bodices with beautiful bridal style ball gown skirts. This offers a bit of tradition with a modern twist, and we love the combination!

We have loved all the details today about one of our favorite designers, Morilee, and we hope you did too! Queenly is all about women empowering women and when we get to gush about designers that do the same, well, we consider that a great day. No matter what Morilee style you choose, it is sure to stun at your wedding and make you feel like a million bucks without having to spend anything close to that much.

You can sleep easy through the whole wedding planning process knowing that your gown will be beautiful and luxe and wow everyone when you walk down the aisle. Especially your significant other, and yes, you have our permission: if they don’t cry when they see you walk out in your Morilee gown, feel free to start the whole ceremony over!

Madeline Gardner creates these designs to ensure that any woman anywhere will feel like the inner queen they are on their wedding day. When you slip that gown on for the first time, we hope you feel the magic that she put into that design. It is such a special moment to find your dream gown, we can’t wait to see what you find! Happy shopping!