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.

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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 six of the best bridal pantsuits and pant-looks from the Vogue archive ahead.

For her wedding in Red Hook, Brooklyn, Natalie Skinner 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,” says Skinner.

For her wedding in Santa Barbara, Alessandra Knight wore a pant and feathered cape set from Sarah Abbasi, designer of the bridal brand Sahroo. Knight chose something she knew she’d be able to wear again, as a memory of her big day.

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For her civil wedding in Paris, Alexandra Lalonde Bouygues wore a white double-breasted Ralph Lauren suit gifted to her by her mother-in-law. The bride was inspired by Bianca Jagger’s tailored wedding suit look. “My ‘something blue’ – an embroidered C above my heart inside my Ralph Lauren jacket,” says Lalonde Bouygues.

For her wedding celebration at Manhattan’s The Grill, Barbara Guggenheim wore a custom Attersee suit – the label’s founder happens to be her niece. “It’s a good look for older people, but it’s just a plain old good look for any age!” Guggenheim notes.

For her rehearsal dinner at her Hudson Valley wedding, Angela Koh wore a suit by The Row. “The Row has such high-quality garments,” says Koh. “A suit from them will last a lifetime and more. The cut of the suit was almost perfect, I barely had to get it tailored. And it’s something I can re-wear to the office.”

For her wedding in Tucson, Sonia Stagg wore a beaded, sheer top and pant set from the menswear label Palomo Spain. "All of the current wedding dresses are so minimal and beautiful, but not really what I wanted,” says Stagg.