A good dress will get you down the aisle. It will meet you at the intersection of romance and all-dressed-in-white tradition. But THE dress will go beyond those mere markers to illuminate you. Your beauty. Your strength. The parts of your story and spirit that make you every bit the woman you are. This isn't about dresses, not really. It's about the stuff inside you that makes you shine no matter what you wear. It's the fact that, at the end of it all, the person waiting for you at the end of the aisle won't be able to tear their eyes away because you are what they've been waiting for. The right dress simply allows everything about you that is lovely and true to rise to the surface. It is a thing that lights you up. The best part is that everyone else can see it too.

Here are 5 of our favorite wedding dresses and the details that made them so special.

Jessa: My favorite dress detail is the way it made me feel....fully empowered!

Emily: Form-fitting with straps on top and volume on bottom made me feel like I could just be me the whole night.

Christina: Being tea length I could twirl and twirl in this dress. I loved every bit of it!

Rose: To honor my wonderful mom and my favorite decade - an era where Hollywood starlets projected sex appeal by the very nature of their confidence and class - I used the base of her wedding dress to create a handmade 1940s-inspired one-of-kind satin and lace ensemble

Carina: When lace meets ruffles!

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Want more dress inspiration? Check out our bridal stylebook in the fall edition of mywedding The Magazine!