Tips For Choosing a Wedding Dress
When it comes to your wedding day choosing your wedding dress may just be the most important thing you will do. Think about it, YOU, the bride are the focal point of the entire celebration. When you stand at the altar with your husband-to-be in front of your guests and family proclaiming your wedding vows, cutting the cake, and taking the dance floor for your first dance as husband and wife, you want to look fabulous. You’re going to look radiant anyway because you’re going to be so happy, but you can definitely expand on that by choosing the right dress for yourself. Looking and feeling your best on your wedding day will make the experience that much better.
When choosing your wedding dress here are some of the most important things to consider?
· Cost. Sit down and figure out what you can spend on a dress, you don’t want to fall in love with a dress you can’t afford. Once you have this figured out it’s time to do some research and figure out who makes dresses in your price range, or how to get what you want to fall into that price range. (Think: borrow, resale, web!)
· Color: Do you want a traditional white or ivory gown? Do you want to be bold in red? Is purple your favorite color? No matter what color dress you decide on always remember your wedding dress needs to be something that flatters your skin tones and not simply what’s popular. If you choose a non-traditional color dress and it doesn’t agree with your skin tones, there isn’t enough make-up to counteract this mistake. Ask for help from people you trust and decide what works best for you.
· Style. This choice needs to be all about what works for you. Choose a style that makes the most of your natural assets and down plays the things you consider your flaws. What style do you find easy and comfortable to wear for a day? What makes you look and feel beautiful? This is something you want to consider before you go out looking for a dress.
· Length. Do you want something knee length, tea length, floor-length? Do you want a train?
· Fashion. What’s popular? This may or may not matter to you, but it’s worth examining. Browse through the bridal magazines you’ve collected or jump on the internet and browse through galleries. Try to keep this in line with the price range you’ve already decided on.
· Fabric. There are so many wonderful choices for fabrics these days. You want the fabric to be appropriate to the season. If you don’t know what’s available, go spend some time in a high-end fabric shop. Touch and feel, maybe even try on a few dresses. They don’t even have to be wedding dresses at this point, you’re just trying to find what feels comfortable on your skin and looks appealing on you.
· Designer. Does your favorite designer for your every day clothes make wedding dresses? You may be surprised on this one. If they do this can give you your first big clue as to comfort and style for your wedding dress. As you’ve been looking at dresses and pictures of dresses, is there any designer who catches your eye? Does that designer have dresses that address your style and cost issues? If not, keep moving. You don’t want to get fastened on something you either can’t have or isn’t right!
· Wedding Style. Are you having an evening wedding with candles, a beach wedding, or a ceremony in someone’s backyard? Think about the ceremony surroundings on your wedding day.
· Ethnic heritage. Feel free to draw on your ethnic heritage when choosing your dress, it can make for a more interesting theme to your wedding day than the same old same old. There are so many fabulous styles and colors that the white dress often doesn’t measure up to. You can even limit this to accessories for just a little taste rather than the entire wedding theme. Many cultures have symbols to be embroidered in white on white and they make the dresses fabulously interesting.
· Comfort: Your bridal gown should fit well and be comfortable for an entire day’s wearing. The undergarments should be comfortable as well, which means you need to think about what needs to be worn and or built into the dress!
· Flattering. Last and most importantly. You should look fabulous! It’s your wedding.
When you go shopping for your dress it’s always a good idea to bring family or friends who’s opinions you trust. Be careful here not to just bring your best friend who may just say what you want to hear. This is an important day, so choosing your help wisely for someone who will give you an honest opinion is better than realizing on your wedding day that your dress isn’t really all it could have been.
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By Jay Byerly
Tags: Wedding Dress