Vera Wang Leisel Ball Gown

From the get-go, Risa had her heart set on a poofy Vera Wang ball gown. “I think it surprised a lot of people,” Risa says, “but Vera Wang is the first wedding dress designer I truly became aware of as a kid, and it was quite fitting that I ended up with one of her gowns on my wedding day.” While Wang’s Leisel dress seemed too ornate for Risa’s taste when she saw it online, in person it blew her away. “It was the first one out of three in total that I tried on and we instantly knew it was the one,” Risa says. She paired the gown with simple, understated jewelry and playful, no-nonsense pink wedges by Seychelles that allowed her to shake it on the dance floor all night.