[New Trend Alert] Brides are buying two dresses, one for the ceremony, one for the reception

Emily Youssef set out to buy one wedding dress. But she was bewitched by two, and after a little needling, her mother caved and purchased both.

The striking 27-year-old newlywed wore the strapless Giorgio Armani ($2,700) with three ribboned tiers for the October ceremony, barefoot on the beach in Florida. (The bridesmaids wore white flip-flops; the groomsmen had their pale-blue shirts out.)

For the reception, she donned a Jim Hjelm design ($1,700) that featured her carefully tanned real estate; with plunging back and necklines, and long, skinny, crystal-encrusted straps, it was a modified A-line in white silk.

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