If you have selected a dress style with a longer, flowing train, there are a couple of ways to wear it.
A. THE TRADITIONAL TRAIN
Here, the skirt of your dress, with the use of an appropriate petticoat, will flow over your petticoat and fall flat to the floor. This is the natural effect of such a dress train. The longer the train, the more weight it will have, and therefore, when you walk down the aisle you will achieve the effect that your train is gently flowing from the waist in a 45 degree angle to the floor.
B. THE EMPHASIZED TRAIN
The second option is to add boning to the skirt of your train. Boning is what gives the effect to a dress that you will often see in most model and magazine shots of bridal gowns. Designers will often add boning to the seams of their trains to achieve that 45 degee angle effect regardless of the length or the movement of the model and dress train. This is not the natural way, but can be a beautiful way to over emphasize your dress length.
ADD BONING TO YOUR TRAIN
Boning is inserted into the seams of your dress train by a seamstress, and can often be done quite inexpensively if you elect to use a trusted local seamstress versus bridal alteration shops, who tend to over-charge for their services.
The down side, however, to adding boning is that it will be difficult and awkward to move around and to sit at your reception or dinner.
Dresses do not come with boning in the trains because it is difficult to pack and store the dress. If you do add boning, have your seamstress remove it again after your wedding so that you can properly store it.
