r/WeddingDressTips

I have a style I like, but now I have 3 good options. All of the dresses are too small, so don't judge how the samples fit too harshly. I'll add some notes on each.

1. Love the shape, straps are supposed to be straight over the shoulder, but the sample didn't fit well. Only thing missing is I would like off the shoulder straps, but they wouldn't would with this dress.

2. Would like more poof from the hips, I'm wondering if more tulle could be added to achieve the shape I want. Love the beading. Off the shoulder straps could be added.

3. Bodice is entirely crystal beads. Love the draping and shape. It has beaded off the shoulder straps that aren't pictured.

Narrowed down to two dresses - please help!

The sample for the first was a bit big and the second was too small so please bear that in mind! I dont have any pictures of the back of the first one but it is a plain zip up back.

First feels simple and elegant and like it has a harmonious silhouette. Second more unique and luxurious silk and a little train.

Thank you :)

I’m having trouble deciding on what overlay i like better: rum vs. ivory underlay. I feel like the nude brings out the lace detail but the ivory is classic and timeless. The venue is rustic outdoors and im trying to figure out what would fit best

I’ve narrowed my options down to four but can’t make up my mind. Which would you choose for a small church wedding (30 guests max) in December in central Ontario.

ETA: Wow! Thank you so much to everyone who responded. It really helped me identify how I feel about the dresses. While 4 and 1 were clearly the favourites here, I realized that my favourites were 3 and 4. 4 is absolutely beautiful, and I agree with a lot of the comments about its many many merits. But my gut says 3 for its simplicity and elegance, and for the fact that, for once in my apple-shaped life, I get to have curves lol.

Is my dress too plain? I am not flashy and have lost about 40 pounds so I felt really good in the dress and loved how it hugged my curves while in the salon but now I’m afraid I went TOO simple….Help!

Hi everyone,

I bought this dress many months ago and I’m going for my alterations this weekend. I loved it when I tried it on but I’m getting cold feet from the photos and upcoming fittings. I can’t change it now, so please help me make it work!! 😭

1. I need to line it, right?! They did an example of the white lining in the last photo. I honestly love the corset and boning look lol but I want to make sure it will stand the test of time and not look too much like intimate clothing??

2. Do people wear bras or shapewear with things like this? I can’t imagine wearing anything with it and felt comfortable in the structured bodice alone. Am I making a mistake showing up without shapewear/bra? I can’t imagine a shape or style that fits with this??

3. I’ll be wearing my hair long and down. Do you have any suggestions on a long or short veil?

Thank you so much. I have been lurking here for over a year and saving screenshots of some beautiful gowns!!! Can’t believe it’s my turn 🙀

Felt like a princess even in the summer heat

TL;DR I think I’m okay with my decision, I do feel a little bummed that I couldn’t afford my dream dress because it would’ve required too many alterations.

I originally didn’t even want a traditional white wedding dress, I wanted to wear silver. I still plan on wearing a silver evening gown to my reception. But I also wanted the ceremony dress to have some silver in it. I became really obsessed with this one gown, Ricca Sposa “Jale” which was for sale at a local shop. It’s literally the reason why I booked them.

Anyway, they didn’t have it in stock. I tried on a few different dresses with a similar silhouette and style, and asked about Jale. The saleswoman saw the pictures and told me that the see through mesh bodice wouldn’t be as supportive for my large bust, and because I’m 5’2” the skirt would need to be shortened. That meant the design on the hem would have to be taken apart and redone which would cost a lot more. Jale was already slightly over my budget and the expensive alterations would’ve been too much.

I settled for this Kitty Chen dress instead which was within my budget. It was one of 3 dresses I had seen online and saved, so it is something I had already been considering as an alternative. My mom was not helping when I called her and sent her the pics, she said it looked like a tent on me. The dress I tried on here was a size too small, they said they would order it in my size then do any further alterations in house.

I‘d like some reassurance that I made the right choice, wasn’t mislead about the alterations, and that it won’t look like a “tent” when it’s trimmed down to my size.

This here is my dream wedding dress. The problem? Doesn’t seem to actually exist. The vendors I come across online look super sketchy and have no reviews, and don’t look like legit sites. My friend Gemini tells me the scam usually entails incorrect orders and expensive return fees/shipping.

Can anyone share suggestions of a (inexpensive) base dress that I can perhaps alter (with iridescent fabric) to have this effect? Grateful for links or any ideas of methods to achieve this. 🙏🥹

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 :( 🤍🤍

I had a long engagement, about 10 months before my wedding I bought a wedding dress. Lost too much weight and had to find a new dress 5 months before my wedding. This wasn’t budgeted for and I ended up really liking a dress I bought off SHEIN. I lost too much boob and the chest was a bit loose and it needed to be hemmed. I look it to a seamstress and I don’t even know what happened. She took the top in so it would fit flush to my chest and now it kind of buckles out under the armpit??? I don’t know I just know I hate the way it looks. Also she refused to remove whatever the thick piece on the back is for and I hate that too. She did cut the seam she created so now I can’t undo the top alteration. I don’t have the capital to find a whole new dress at this point and my wedding is on less than 30 days. Please tell me what you think, I’ll include pictures of before it was altered and after. It’s technically wearable but because she took it in on the sides, the back is kinda wide open now too way more than it was before. Ugh 😣

I took my dress to a dry cleaner today! They seemed hesitant that the stains might not come out, the train was in the Mediterranean Sea, sand and dirty. Will this come out? Or has it completely ruined my dress. We eloped 2 weeks ago and I just took the dress today. I don’t expect perfection, but hopefully it can be mostly saved as I’m wearing it for our reception party in a month.

I didn’t get a great photo, but mostly just on the train!

Can you help me decide which design suits my body best? I would really love to get your inputs. 🩷😊

i have been shopping 4x so far and nothing has felt 100% right yet. having trouble assessing what is flattering on me. these are my top 3 i think. should i keep looking? thanks for any help!

Dress 1: private label (does anyone know what dress this is?) - didn't expect to like a clean dress or pleats, i'm not sure what this fabric is but it's both more comfortable and more heavy than the other two

Dress 2: would probably order this lined and not use either sleeve option or the beads around the waist - this is generally my original vintage inspired vision for my dress but not sure if neckline will work well for me once the dress is in my size

Dress 3: not really my style but liked silhouette

EDIT: the wedding is in may, venue is pretty much a blank slate that can be dressed up or down - it's a modernized historic building that has slight moody/industrial/vaudevillian vibes. we're planning to lean into a funky kitschy aesthetic or an elegant moody aesthetic depending on the dress!

I said yes to the dress a bit ago (sorry for the bad quality pictures, they were taken from a video and I tried to cover my face yet show my face shape at the same time) and I am stumped on what kind of hairstyle to have.

Any suggestions (with pics) would be much appreciated! Thank you!! ☺️

EDIT: THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! This was a WILDLY better response than my post about my previous dress and I feel SO MUCH BETTER AND HAPPY THAT I'M GOING TO HAVE A DRESS THAT FITS ME NEXT WEEK!!!! YAAAY!!! Thanks y'all!!!!

I'm leaving for my beach elopement in ONE WEEK. My original dress turned out pretty rough after alterations. I tried this one off the rack today and have a seamstress who said she could take up the length of the hem in front by Saturday. I am nervous to ask her to do anything else, even though the bust is a bit loose and I'm not totally sure about the hips. Honest opinions, does it look good enough to go if I only adjust the length a bit, it does it read as sloppy? Thanks!

I fell in love with this dress but keep getting dif prices for it. I know it’s a white label thing but I feel like different boutiques are not being honest:( does anyone know where I can find this dress and or know what I should actually be paying?