All Bodies, All Brides

All Bodies, All Brides Making the bridal industry accessible, exceptional, and inclusive to ALL through expert consulting, clear training, & disabilities advocacy! 💗

As the current administration has thrown many things into chaos, we want you to know that we are remaining firm: disable...
04/03/2025

As the current administration has thrown many things into chaos, we want you to know that we are remaining firm: disabled people deserve a robust wedding dress shopping experience and a place to highlight their love stories. We will keep educating, calling out, and building a community that reflects our vivid love for brides of all bodies.

We have an exciting virtual event coming up on April 25th in collaboration with the , and if you are a designer, associate, advocate, stylist, bride, student, caregiver, or lover of good conversation we hope that you will listen in! Let's keep learning together, register at the link in our bio 💓💐🩷👰💡

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Image Description: a flyer for an upcoming event, "The Current: Rethinking Fashion for Inclusivity." On April 25th, from 12:30-1pm ET or 9:30-10am PT. The event description reads, "Join CoDesign Collaborative for The Current, a virtual, student-led lightning talk series highlighting vital topics in design, on April 24th 12:30-1pm ET / 9:30-10am PT to discuss inclusive fashion design with students Maanya Lakhiani and Katie Horan, Founder at All Bodies, All Brides. This talk will explore how designers can integrate inclusive design principles to create garments that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also functional, comfortable, and empowering for all wearers. Through the lens of bridal wear, we’ll examine the challenges individuals with disabilities face when shopping for significant life events and how the industry can better meet their needs. Students register for free at codesigncollaborative.org."

As the current administration has thrown many things into chaos, we want you to know that we are remaining firm: disable...
04/03/2025

As the current administration has thrown many things into chaos, we want you to know that we are remaining firm: disabled people deserve a robust wedding dress shopping experience and a place to highlight their love stories. We will keep educating, calling out, and building a community that reflects our vivid love for brides of all bodies.

We have an exciting virtual event coming up on April 25th in collaboration with the , and if you are a designer, associate, advocate, stylist, bride, student, caregiver, or lover of good conversation we hope that you will listen in! Let’s keep learning together, register at the link in our bio 💓💐🩷👰💡

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Image Description: a flyer for an upcoming event, “The Current: Rethinking Fashion for Inclusivity.” On April 25th, from 12:30-1pm ET or 9:30-10am PT. The event description reads, “Join CoDesign Collaborative for The Current, a virtual, student-led lightning talk series highlighting vital topics in design, on April 24th 12:30-1pm ET / 9:30-10am PT to discuss inclusive fashion design with students Maanya Lakhiani and Katie Horan, Founder at All Bodies, All Brides. This talk will explore how designers can integrate inclusive design principles to create garments that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also functional, comfortable, and empowering for all wearers. Through the lens of bridal wear, we’ll examine the challenges individuals with disabilities face when shopping for significant life events and how the industry can better meet their needs. Students register for free at codesigncollaborative.org.”

Today, we celebrate!! Over the past few months, we have had the privilege of working with the team at in Cherry Hill, N...
01/30/2025

Today, we celebrate!! Over the past few months, we have had the privilege of working with the team at in Cherry Hill, New Jersey as they completed their ABAB Certification training with us!

We truly had so much fun with this team—Laura, Natalie, Kylisha, Brooke-Lynn, and Gia are all INCREDIBLE. Their store is all about creating a personalized, joy-filled experience to help brides find their dream wedding dress. From start to finish, their team is there to celebrate your story and make every moment unforgettable, which means they are people we can recommend highly!

We are so so proud of this team, show them some love! 💗 💗 💗


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Image Description: Light and dark pink background, divided horizontally. A round image of the 5 person team at Laura & Leigh Bridal sits in the center. All stylists are wearing black dresses and smiling softly at the screen, striking relaxed poses.

This is what our setup looks like when we aren’t rolling around racks of wedding dresses! Earlier this month, Katie had ...
11/30/2024

This is what our setup looks like when we aren’t rolling around racks of wedding dresses! Earlier this month, Katie had the pleasure of talking with almost 200 friends from the central NJ area about what All Bodies, All Brides is and why inclusive language matters. Hosting conversations like this is our bread and butter 😉 We love to talk about disabled belonging, and we get all sorts of reactions when we do it…

🤔 Some people are hearing information for the first time. People come up to us afterwards, astonished that we don’t encouraging saying things like “special needs” or “handicapable” ❌❌❌
🥸 Some people are community advocates for inclusion in their own right, and are in disbelief that not everyone is on the same page as them!
🫨 Most tell us that they’re curious to learn more.

Where do you think you’d be in the crowd? How are you furthering your education on disability?
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Image Description: Katie, a white woman with mid length curly brown hair, stands on stage talking in front of a powerpoint slide about “All Bodies, All Brides.”

For all of our friends in the New Jersey area, join us this Sunday for a free event at (in partnership with The Princet...
11/22/2024

For all of our friends in the New Jersey area, join us this Sunday for a free event at (in partnership with The Princeton Film Festival Society and ) showing La Belle Étincelle, a movie about a restaurant staffed by adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs.) Katie, ABAB's founder, will be offering a quick presentation after the event about the employment of people with IDDs and how to discuss disability respectfully 💓 Afterwards, the team from will be hosting a Q&A about their experiences running and working at a local restaurant that holds the same commitments to disabled employment as La Belle Étincelle 🕺🏻🕺🏻🕺🏻


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Image Descriptions: two posts, showcasing event information. La Belle Etincelle will show at Princeton in on Sunday, November 24th, 2024 at 4pm on Princeton's campus with the support of Princeton University and the Pace Center for Civic Engagement. Both Blue Bears and All Bodies, All Brides have their logos featured on the event flyer.

Today, we are celebrating the marriage of Ruth Madeley and Joe Lawrence! Married on September 7th, 2024, the pair show t...
10/30/2024

Today, we are celebrating the marriage of Ruth Madeley and Joe Lawrence! Married on September 7th, 2024, the pair show the strength of the friends-to-lovers arch we all know and adore. Swipe to hear more about their day and Ruth's custom gown!

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🩷 Dress designed by of .uk
🩷 Embroidery by .embroidery of .seam.uk
🩷 Seamstress and pattern cutting by
🩷 Hair and makeup by
🩷 Nails by
🩷 Photography by
🩷 Accessories gifted by and


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• Slide One: Light and dark pink background, divided horizontally. A round image of Ruth and Joe is centered on screen, showing Ruth and Joe leaned in and kissing one another sweetly. Text reads: "ABAB Feature: Ruth + Joe."
• Slide Two: Ruth cheers during her wedding day, one hand up in the air in celebration, while Joe smiles kneeling next to her.
• Slide Three: Text post, reading "Ruth & Joe met eachother for the first time when they were just five years old. Friends for ages, Ruth says she thinks they both knew they were meant to be together! The pair made it official about 11 years ago, well set up by a lifetime of friendship. 'I love the fact that we're best mates as well as a couple. I knew I wanted to marry him as soon as we got together!' - Ruth."

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ABAB Community: We are asking you to help us help a couple in need! This is Sabah (left, ) and Moamen (right, .) They ha...
10/25/2024

ABAB Community: We are asking you to help us help a couple in need!

This is Sabah (left, ) and Moamen (right, .) They have been engaged for four years and were planning on starting their lives together last year, before the war in Gaza intimately changed their lives. The house that Moamen had spent years of income and time preparing for them was instantly destroyed by bombs, and the pair immediately found themselves in a dire situation. Sabah, who previously was an instructor at Al-Aqsa University, found herself without the ability to work, and Moamen sustained a serious injury amid the violence which meant losing his ability to earn money as well. Right now, Sabah and Moamen are asking us for help recovering and surviving: they need enough money to purchase a tent and a few wedding items. In their own words, all they want is the chance to get married before their time runs out. Amidst limited food and shelter as the winter cold is settling in, please consider contributing to this couple's GoFundMe, (which is donation protected like all donations on its platform!), accessible through the link in our bio and on our story!

Let us be people who think about marriage access everywhere. Thank you for reading friends, share as you are able!


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Image Description: A nice photograph of Sabah and Moamen, perhaps an engagement photo. They appear to be in a destroyed building that still has furniture in it, but they are holding each other. Moamen is smiling at the camera while Sabah is shyly turned away. She is wearing a long beige dress with cherries embroidered on it with a coordinating burgundy headscarf. He is wearing a teal long sleeved T-shirt and jeans.

For those of you who know ABAB personally, you probably also know Mark! Mark is the karaoke-singing, strikes-when-bowlin...
10/23/2024

For those of you who know ABAB personally, you probably also know Mark! Mark is the karaoke-singing, strikes-when-bowling, marvel-loving older brother behind the founding of ABAB. This month, while celebrating National Disability Employment Awareness Month, Mark and his manager were interviewed by Community Partnerships, Inc. Here, Mark got to share about his experience working in a Supported Employment position with a job coach. Check out the link in our bio to learn more!

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• Slide One: Soft pink background on all images. Round photo of Mark, a white man with glasses, and a white woman with a top knot bun standing next to one another and smiling. Both wear a Buffalo Wild Wings shirt. Above and below the image, text reads: "October is N.D.E.A.M. and Mark is celebrating!!"
• Slide Two: Two text blurbs and a graphic image of a brown-skinned man in pink scrubs with a prosthetic leg. Text reads: "NDEAM, National Disability Employment Awareness Month. October celebrates the accomplishments of Disabled workers in the United States each year, every year since 1945. All people deserve access to quality jobs they enjoy, and the labor of people with disabilities is and always has been essential to our society!"
• Slide Three: Round-ish photo of Mark and Katie, the young white woman who founded ABAB, smiling together at the camera. Mark is wearing a ball cap and a pink ABAB t-shirt. Text below the image reads: "Celebrate with us! Mark, an ABAB sibling and key reason that our company exists, is celebrating securing a job this month! Check out the new link in our bio to read an article on his experience

We get to continue the celebrating this month as we give three cheers to the team at for completing their ABAB Certific...
10/17/2024

We get to continue the celebrating this month as we give three cheers to the team at for completing their ABAB Certification Training with us! Located in Webster, New York, these wonderful people run the largest bridal shop in New York state outside of NYC and Long Island. As a result, their completion of our training series is set up to have a HUGE impact! We are so proud, join us in our celebrations! 💌🌟🎀🎉❤️


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Image Description: a group of 13 people staggered in two rows smile in front of a multi-toned red balloon arch art-piece. One woman in the middle wears a tank top wedding dress, while everyone else is predominately in cute business-casual black outfits.

Thinking this week about this quote from in her book, "Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law." What does...
10/15/2024

Thinking this week about this quote from in her book, "Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law." What does it mean when we truly unsettle the narrative that disability is something that must be overcome in order for people with disabilities to be successful? What changes in our communities, our culture, our ways of moving through the world when we think about success as promoting accessible 'alternative techniques' rather than demanding assimilation?

Haben is going to be speaking at Parson's School of Fashion in NYC on October 16th from 7:00-8:00pm ET, and the event is both hybrid and free! You might just see us there as we keep reflecting 😉

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Image Description: "Disability is not something an individual overcomes. I'm still Disabled. I'm still Deafblind. People with disabilities are successful when we develop alternative techniques and our communities choose inclusion." This quote is centered on screen and broken up by a photo of a book cover with Haben Girma (African American woman with dark hair, wearing a blue, short sleeve blouse, in profile view) in front of a red background.

Congratulations to the amazing team over at for completing their ABAB Certification training with us over the last mont...
10/12/2024

Congratulations to the amazing team over at for completing their ABAB Certification training with us over the last month! These wonderful people work day in and day out in Manchester, New York selling one-of-a-kind dresses off the rack. In their own words, "you can get a great deal on your wedding dress AND a full bridal experience at Two Hearts Bridal!" We are so so proud of this team, show them some love! 💗 💗 💗


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Image Description: A group of 10 people closely posed together, some sitting and some standing, all smiling brightly.

Happy World Mental Health Day! Scroll through to learn a little bit about the history of what today stands for, why it i...
10/10/2024

Happy World Mental Health Day! Scroll through to learn a little bit about the history of what today stands for, why it is especially relevant to disability justice, and how you might choose to celebrate. What are you doing to take care of you today??


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• Slide One: Graphic of a happy brain wearing a crown is centered, surrounded by text: "Today, October 10th is World Mental Health Day!"
• Slide Two: Text oriented right: "Since 1992, World Mental Health Day has aimed to promote mental health advocacy, end the stigma around mental illness, prompt education on mental wellbeing, and mobilize self/communal care models! Depute Secretary General Richard Hunter, pictured on the left, founded this holiday while working for the World Federation for Mental Health." Round image of Richard Hunter, a white man wearing round wire glasses, sits in front of three pink vertical lines.
• Slide Three: Text block, centered: "Mental Health and Disability: Many mental health conditions can be understood as disabilities in and of themselves, especially when symptoms may be severe enough to negatively impact how a person conducts their day to day life. Additionally, research conducted by the CDC shows that adults with disabilities report frequent mental distress at five times the rate of their non-disabled peers. Given that the history of institutionalization (in the United States especially!) included and impacted people with mental health conditions alongside folks with other types of disabilities, we can understand disability justice advocacy and mental health advocacy as correlated subjects."

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