The Splurge Every Bride Would Buy Twice

Vogue put the question to fifteen of its brides: of everything bought in the run-up to a wedding, what actually earned its keep. Not the dress, not the flowers—the thing that survived from the planning binder all the way to the last dance and proved worth every dollar. Their answers add up less to a shopping list than to a shared instinct about where a wedding budget is best spent, and where it isn't.

With reporting from Vogue.