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Gown styles range from fantasy to lacy reality

Originally published: January 30, 2012 3:28 PM
Updated: January 31, 2012 1:34 PM
By MICHELE INGRASSIA. Special to Newsday

Photo credit: Smile Bella | Victoria Nicole's Bridal Collection features this latte tulle hand-embroidered full gown with ribbon detail at the waist. (Spring 2012)

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Victoria Nicole McMillan bridal collection

Like many little girls, Victoria Nicole McMillan grew up sketching fairy-tale bridal gowns -- fluffy white confections that, she says with a laugh, were "so big they barely fit on the page."

She outgrew the volume, but not the gowns.

After graduating from Drexel University in 1987 and backpacking through Europe, the Philadelphia-born McMillan packed a suitcase, headed to Manhattan and...