- I'm so overwhelmed but,
I don't know if I gonna find something today.
- [Man & Woman] Are you saying yes to the dress?
(bouncy violin music)
- Hello, my name is Ella and I'm engaged!
How annoying is that?
I have been doing that a lot to people.
Basically, me and my girlfriend have been together
for a little over three years, almost coming up on four.
And she proposed to me in Hawaii.
It was amazing, and magical, and wonderful
and I am just so in love with her.
She is smart, and funny, and passionate, and intense,
and we're really committed to building a life together.
This past year, we've been working on planning our wedding
and we haven't really figured out what we're wearing.
So we are bringing all of our friends and family
to New York to Kleinfeld's to help us pick out our outfits.
When you're queer, I think these things
become a little bit more complicated.
I know that I've kinda had a difficult relationship
with my sexual identity
and figuring out what that means in a wedding
and what role I'm supposed to play.
We want to be a part of this tradition
that's so meaningful to our society,
but we want to do it in a way that feels right for us.
We'll just see what happens.
(plane engines roaring)
(street traffic)
I am going to be trying on dresses at Kleinfeld's.
It's my dream come true because I'm such a fan of the show.
(bouncy violin music)
And I have all of my friends and family here with me.
I'm so excited!
- It's our own "Say Yes to the Dress"
- This is my mom and my aunt Laurie.
- So Laura, when Ella was in high school,
she loved this Italian dress.
Ella what was, it was so pretty, it was like
- I don't remember. - pale, pale rose colored.
And I thought it was lovely.
- I had, like, a wedding dress bought?
- You did, you did, yes.
- What, I did? - You did.
(bouncy violin music)
- My goal is to have fun, but I also want to find something
and I'm worried that I'm not gonna have that moment.
You know, that tears crying moment.
I am very picky, so I have an idea
and I don't know if it's something that they have here.
But, I definitely want to try on, like,
the cake-topper bridal dresses, so I don't know.
I don't know if I'm gonna find something today.
- Hello. - Hello!
- I'm James, I'll be your consultant.
- I'm Ella.
- So great to meet you. - Nice to meet you.
- Congratulations. - Thank you so much.
- Um, have you been gown shopping yet?
- So I've been browsing.
(Wedding March tune)
Okay!
(Wedding March tune)
- Okay. - And I have some ideas,
but I also love wedding dresses,
and I love glitter and sparkle and big poofy things
'cause I feel like this is the one time
I'm gonna be able to be, like, my like,
"Princess Diaries" down the stairs moment.
Realistically, I love to dance and I love to, like,
be able to move so I have these two things that I'm like,
ugh, I don't know what to do.
- Well, we can definitely always dance in a big ball gown.
- You can?
- And you're right, like, this is a once in a lifetime thing
let's go big.
So we actually have a Hayley Paige trunk show going on.
- [Ella] Oh my God, I love Hayley Paige!
- Yeah right, she's fun, she's young,
she's different, but she's still super bridal.
Um, so I feel like maybe we should start with those.
- Yeah. - Yeah?
- Let's do it!
- Let's go for a walk. - Okay.
- These are probably the biggest and most fun.
- Oh my God.
See the thing is like I love it, but I'm like,
am I that girl, I don't know.
- Do we want to see if we're that girl?
- Yeah, we do wanna see if we're that girl.
- Awesome, and then here is where
they start to go into the fuller gowns.
- Okay.
- This is what I found for you.
This is the first thing I saw for you.
- Yeah, I would love to try this.
- That's why I'm hovering.
- Yeah, I love it. - Definitely.
- Can I try this one, or no?
- Yeah!
No.
- Okay, I don't know!
Let's start with that.
- Start with these three and then go from there?
- Yeah.
- Perfect!
So after talking with Ella, it seems like
we really want to feel like a bride on our wedding day.
So I think that Hayley Paige is gonna be perfect
because we want something big, something fun,
something youthful, but still feels really bridal.
And I think we have some really great options to try.
- I can't wait to see what Hannah and Ella choose,
it's gonna be amazing.
Ella, I think, fairy princess all the way.
- Being here with Ella and watching her try on these dresses
is like my perfect bridal fitting
because I'm not actually the one doing all the changing
and I get to still appreciate somebody that I love
in these beautiful gowns.
- I'm super excited and I have absolutely all expectation
that it's gonna be incredible and wonderful.
Not quite at the emotional level yet, but I will be.
- Oh my God. - (gasps) Not again.
(crowd chatter)
- [Bridesmaid] Oh I wanna cry.
- She doesn't like it, the boobs?
- Yeah, it's kind of like, yeah, dancer.
Like, I'm gonna go do a -- - Wonderful side boob.
- [Ella] And I am a dancer.
- A music video, yeah. (laughs)
- [Bridesmaid] This does look like it's been, like you know,
sitting around for a bit (laughs)
in the garage and got some dust on it.
(laughter)
This combination of colors
is just a little different for me.
- [James] Did you pick your wedding dress?
- Yes, I did. - Yeah, see right?
(laughter)
- I absolutely love it, but I feel like, uh,
like I could go to a red carpet.
- You could go to the MET in this one.
MET Gala, absolutely. - Yeah.
- I feel like I'm gonna manifest a time to wear this dress.
- So we'll take one of these and no wedding.
(laughter)
Do you want me to pull you a fitted gown?
- [Ella] Yeah, let's try a fitted gown.
- [Everyone] Yeah!
- [Bridesmaid] More, more, more!
- [Naomi] Aww.
Aww Ella.
- I love this top, like this bodice
is exactly what I had envisioned,
like, the rhinestones and the pearls and, like,
I love the sleeves.
- [Mom] I like sleeves on you too.
- [Bridesmaid] The sleeves are very sophisticated.
- I wanted to look like a princess on top of a cake.
(crowd moans)
- [James] With a sleeve, life your arms for me.
- Yeah, I can't.
- [Bridesmaid] Oh wow.
- [James] So it'll restrict movement a little bit,
- Yeah.
- [James] But you'll still be able to have fun right?
- It's okay, it's okay.
I'll just be down and demure.
This is definitely my favorite.
- Yeah, awesome.
- Can I see with a veil?
- Yeah!
(bouncy violin music)
- [Everyone] Wow.
(crowd talking over each other)
- That's, oh my gosh.
- The only thing,
the dancing.
I'm just worried about this but like,
yeah, I wish that I could wear this
and still have it work for the whole night.
- Well listen, we're at Kleinfeld.
We can make anything happen.
- [Ella] Okay.
- We have another gown in the room,
did you still want to try that one on?
- [Ella] I do, this is amazing.
- [Mom] This is good.
- So this is our gown-to-be?
- This is our gown-to-be?
- [James] So, we've tried on a bunch of gowns
and we're really liking a lot of things.
We just have to see what the final outcome is.
- I love the fittedness.
I, I love the lace on lace.
- [Naomi] Can we see the train?
- Yeah the train is
ridiculous.
Yeah, yeah.
I like it 'cause it's more skin tone underneath.
Should we try a veil?
- [Everyone] Yes!
- [Ella] Let's try a veil.
(bouncy violin music)
- [Naomi] Aww, oh my gosh
Oh my God Ella.
- This is, uh, gonna be a hard choice.
- Alrighty, let's go see if we can knock either of them out.
- Okay.
- Oh my God. - Oh!
(jazz music)
- [Bridesmaid] Put your arms up and dance.
Yes, there it is, there you go.
- Try the veil, try the veil, try the veil.
- It worked!
- I'm not really sure what I'm gonna do.
I'm so overwhelmed,
but this has just been an amazing experience.
So I didn't think this would happen,
but I think I found my dress.
(upbeat orchestral music)
- [Man & Woman] Are you saying yes to the dress?
- [Ella] I'm saying yes to the dress!
(crowd cheers)
(upbeat orchestral music)
- [Man] Oh yes!
- Hey, you know what,
these actually do work like sunglasses.
This does work.
- Hey, if you liked this video
and you wanna watch Hannah's experience at Kleinfeld's,
she made an entire video about it
and you can go watch that on her channel.
Just click the link below.
(upbeat orchestral music)