you're so lucky to have that beautiful dress to wear! Im going to be a bridesmaid in my best friend's wedding(although it's not until fall 2010)..but the bridesmaids dresses that she has picked out are this periwinkle awful light blue/purple color... who the heck looks good in that color?! .. anyways.. I'm determined to look the best that I can(regardless of the color) by then
Great dress! I agree with everyone who says get it in the size you wear now. It's a lot easier to take something in than it is to let something out.
I've only been a bridesmaid once, in my sister's wedding. The dress I had to wear was fairly hideous. :P I was much, much smaller than I am now, though - probably in the 170's. (And, of course, I thought I was a )
I too have to be a bridesmaid. Its on august 15th. Im trying to wait as long as possible to buy the dress, one so I can buy the smallest size possible and then have to alter it less and also, cause Im broke! lol. Its a pretty dress I have to get, but its nothing I could ever wear again. Not even if I shortened it. Yours is beautiful. You can for sure make a cute cocktail dress afterwards by having it shortened. Anyone have any idea about how much alterations cost? cause im gonig to go broke buying the dress, but im not going to hinder my weight loss efforts to make sure im going to fit in the same size dress in 4 months. but she is my good friend so I want to do this for her.
Welcome Back Jessica! It's so good to have you back...that dress is very pretty!!
I have been one twice. My brothers wedding in 2005, and my sisters wedding in 2008. For my brothers wedding I was much heavier than I was at my sisters wedding. As for the not sopose to lose weight after ordering the dress, I've never heard that before. In fact, for my sisters wedding, I had to order the largest size it came in, and have the lady tell me they might have to add material!! When it came time to pick up the dress I had to have it taken in, twice! I was more than thrilled to have it altered to make it smaller than having to add more material ( which is what the lady at the bridal shop orig said...but of course, there was like 5 months in between ordering the dress and finally picking it up ) I'll post a photo from each wedding....both bridesmaid dresses were beautiful IMO.....first photo is from my brothers wedding, I'm on the right. 2nd photo is from my sisters wedding,
I bridesmaided in a purple (really, really purple) cocktail dress last year, and I had a blast.
Make sure you buy good underwear, it can really make the dress. And if you are wearing shoes that are higher than you are used to, wear them in the evening for a month leading up to the wedding to get used to them. Also, take some flats with you to change into.
Good foundations are important. A corset or something in the Lycra family will do nicely.
If you're wearing a contraption with garters, put your panties on LAST!!! You MUST remember this!!!!!
I was a bridesmaid a few years ago at size 24. We found a great dress @ Marshalls (us girls were all in black dresses of our choosing), but it had a Hawaiian pattern like white & black flowered. It also has a satiny liner, so we flipped it inside out, got a big swath of black lace & basted it onto the bottom to hide the white satin hem.
I hate hate hate my arms, so we found a wide black table runner @ Pier One & I used that a shawl. Looked great!
The cut of the dress was very flattering to me, so I kept it & wore it to 2 other weddings, right side out, with a pair of CUUUUTE kitten heels.
What a pretty dress! I was Maid-of-Honor in my friend's wedding this past October. I picked out a similar chiffon flowy material for myself and the bridesmaids dresses. (The bride let me pick them.) It's an awesome material. We all looked great... even me who was a whopping 268lbs at the time.
As for alterations, I wouldn't worry about losing weight. You won't be getting it altered right now anyways. We had ours done a couple weeks before the wedding.
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