The Brides Wore Pants! The Best Bridal Suits From the Vogue Weddings Archive

As it turns out, sometimes, the best thing a bride can do is say no to the dress—and slip into a pair of wedding day-ready pants. You could argue it all started with Bianca Jagger, who famously eschewed tradition and wore a YSL smoking blazer to her wedding in 1971 to Mick Jagger. Though she wore a skirt with the blazer, it established one thing for certain: The cool girls? They wore bridal suits.

See Amal Clooney in her Stella McCartney jumpsuit, worn to her civil ceremony to George Clooney in Venice in 2014. Or Solange Knowles in her Stéphane Rolland look worn for her wedding to Alan Ferguson that same year.

Vogue wedding brides have also been gravitating toward pants for their wedding day or weekend looks. For some brides, like Natalie Skinner, the fashion choice was paramount. Skinner was married in 2023 in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and wore a custom corset and pant set by Wiederhoeft. “I had envisioned a corset and a shirt underneath it and then I wanted to wear pants. That was my big thing: I wanted to wear pants,” she told Vogue.

For Alexandra Lalonde Bouygues’s civil wedding in Paris, the day called for a white double-breasted Ralph Lauren suit. Her wedding day muse? Bianca Jagger, but of course.

See the best bridal pantsuits and pant-look in the Vogue archive ahead.