Bridal Wear
Choosing the bridal dress etc
Yippee! It’s time to shop! You may never buy so much stuff as you do for your wedding until the time comes that you have your first baby. If you love shopping you are in luck because there are plenty of things to purchase.
The Wedding Dress
Think comfort and elegance. The best thing to do is to go to a bridal dress shop and just start trying dresses on. Bring along a friend whose opinion you trust and who you also know will be honest with you. Grab a bunch of dresses and try on one right after another. You will soon find that there is a certain style which flatters your figure and is comfortable too.
You may be surprised to find that the style of dress you always dreamed of, say for example an empress cut, simply does not look as nice or feel as comfortable as an a-line gown.
You should also take into consideration what the weather will be like on the day of your wedding; if you are ahead of the game and are buying your gown months beforehand then you should not forget that the weather will likely change between now and then.
Do not purchase a gown a size or two too small and promise yourself that you will lose the weight to fit into it by the time your wedding date rolls around. By the same token, don’t panic if you need a larger dress size than usual when trying on the wedding gowns…for one reason or another many wedding gown sizes are listed as larger than they should be.
The white/off-white bridal dress debate rages on.
As tradition would have it, virgins wear white on their wedding day while non-virgins don off-white gowns. This is not followed very strictly nowadays, and in fact a virgin can strut down the aisle in a powder blue wedding dress while a non-virgin can sport the whitest gown ever. You can follow this tradition if you would like to, but a better guide might be looking at which color best suits your skin tone. For many women, a bright white wedding gown simply overpowers them while an off-white gown looks perfectly elegant.
This is not the time to show off your assets. Sure, you want to look good. This is not the time, though, to push your bust out to the point of popping from the dress, nor is it the appropriate time to wear a wedding dress that is so tight that it leaves nothing to the imagination.
A glowing bride in a wedding gown is beautiful enough; she doesn’t need to flaunt all her curves too.
Remember that you will be looking at the photographs from this occasion for years to come, and do you really want to show your future daughter pictures of you shimmying down the aisle in a wedding dress when it is obvious to everyone that you can hardly breathe?
If you insist upon showing off your body then you may want to consider changing into a second (and more form fitting) dress either at the reception or instead as your getaway outfit.
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