My wedding dress is too warm/beige - what do I do?
My wedding dress arrived and I’m devastated by how warm the ivory is 😭
I’m eloping in Lake Como this September and my dress finally arrived. I had it made by a Vietnamese shop as I am a bride on a budget, she did an absolutely amazing job as it is beautiful and the dress itself is exactly what I wanted, but I’m really struggling with the colour :(
(The first picture: the reference I sent her
The second picture: the colour options
The third and fourth picture: the dress I received with and without flash
The fifth picture: comparison on my skin tone)
She gave me two colour options warm ivory and light ivory, but the light ivory looked stark white and the warm ivory looked a little off white which was perfect it looked a little warm but not too warm but i made the completely wrong decision and I should've gone with Light - now that I've tried it on it looks cream/vintage-looking, and I’m honestly trying not to be upset because that wasn’t the effect I was going for at all
I’ve spent around £900 on the dress, so obviously I’m panicking a bit that I’ve spent all this money on something I don’t actually love. I’ve contacted the dressmaker to ask whether there’s anything they can do to cool the colour down, but I don’t know if that’s even possible and I feel bad as it was my mistake not hers
I think part of the problem is that I had such a specific image in my head of a cooler, clean ivory, just as the inspiration pictures and the dress structure looks like it but not the colour whatsoever
Does anyone have any suggestions on what I could possibly do? My wedding is a month away now and I'm all the way in the UK I feel so stuck, but we've spent so much on the elopement day I don't want to settle for a dress I end up hating :( 🤍🤍