Watters turns 40: How a family business in Dallas scaled to 36 markets

In 1986, Vatana Watters started designing wedding dresses for her family and friends in Dallas, with no big plans for the future. “I wanted them to feel beautiful in the dress, not simply dressed like a bridesmaid, and ideally to want to wear it again. It was very personal and very small in the beginning,” she told FashionUnited. On Wednesday, Vatana will celebrate 40 years of her international luxury bridal fashion house at The Rosewood hotel in London. “It’s still a little surreal to think that those first dresses became the