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Buying the Best Wedding Gown For Your Body Shape

By Jaquie Gennera, executive summarized by Andromeda.

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Every bride needs to have the perfect wedding dress. You may be overwhelmed by the sheer number of fabrics, cuts, and styles of dresses available when you first go into a bridal boutique. You need not stress; shopping for your ideal dress doesn’t have to be a bad experience. Use these steps and you could select the perfect wedding dress for your body.

Be honest in your measurement and start with it. Never buy a dress that is any smaller than what your measurements are right now. It is a bad idea to buy a dress that is too tight with the thought that you can lose the weight. Accept your body the way it is now and give accurate and recent measurements to the boutique where you buy dresses.

Requests help. Ask your girlfriends and family members for their opinions. Or ask for help from an impartial source. Keep in mind that your friends may not serve as the best judges of what actually looks good on your body. Sometimes it is helpful to ask the opinions of others when trying to find your style, make sure that you allow the influence of at least 3 salespeople to help guide you. If you have secured a wedding planner, they most likely will offer an impartial opinion too.

Check out a lot of different types of styles. Do not start with a pre supposition and image of a perfect dress. You could end up disappointing yourself by making limits when you begin. Keep options open for styles you may have not worn in the past. Wear them to check how they fit you.

Disguise your unwanted flaws. There are easy ways your outfit can hide rather not so flattering features. When women choose an A-line skirt, whether she is an apple or pear shape, she will appear thinner as the shape of the skirt is flared at the bottom and pulled in at the waist. The elegant and graceful lines of Empire waist garments flatter a pear-shaped figure.

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Enjoy your natural curves! If you’re going for a curvaceous image on your big day, look at wedding dresses in an hourglass shape that highlight your décolletage and feature a full skirt. A neat and well-cut inner garment should enhance your body contours the way you want.

Look at what is in your closet. You may want to consider getting a better idea of what suits you from your personal wardrobe if choosing a wedding dress is too overwhelming. You should take inventory of the items you currently have in your closet. You should remove from the closet the clothes that you feel confident wearing. What do these pieces tell you? How about a pencil skirt for those times when you want to show that you took the extra time to get prepared, or does the low cut of the cashmere sweater you like so much make you fell sexy every time you wear it? Pick up on those key elements when shopping for your dress. You may discover that your mind knows what will give your shape the desired effect and all you have to do is trust in yourself.

You must be sure to choose the correct dress for your wedding. The most anticipated day of your life requires a dress that you love and you can find it by not panicking and using these methods.

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11 Considerations For a Perfect Wedding Gown at Your Perfect Wedding

by Ann Keeler Evans, executive summarized by Andromeda

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As you stand with your beloved in front of your community and offer one another wedding vows in the midst of your wedding ceremony, as you cut your cake and take the dance floor for your first dance, you want to look fabulous. Now, here’s a secret. You’re going to look fabulous anyway because you’re going to be so happy. And that’s great! But you want to work with that! You want every bit of support you can have, because even the clearest bride feels just the easiest bit nervous on her wedding day. Looking fabulous helps!

What do you want to consider as you begin to think about a gown?

• Cost.

Let’s get this out of the way. You don’t want to fall in love with a dress you can’t afford. So, before you do any wedding planning at all, sit down and figure out what you can spend on a dress. And then do some research once you have that price in mind 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

Your wedding dress needs to be something that flatters your skin tones and not simply what’s popular this year. If pistachio and gold are all the rage and you look like a parsnip in pistachio and gold, you don’t want to wear it. There’s not enough make-up in the world and you don’t want to wear that much make-up at your wedding anyway. It does nothing for pictures. Do you want a traditional white or cream gown? Do you want to sizzle in red or hot pink or purple? Certainly plenty of 2nd time brides are wearing white gowns, because it’s not the 50s any more and you’re not my neighbors down the street where the bride had to wear blue because her mother found out that she and her husband-to-be had had sex before. (Talk about taking out the ad in the NY Times!) I wore basic black velvet and sparkled and glowed. What works for you?

• Style.

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Again, this is about you. What style 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. If you don’t feel totally comfortable about the answers to these questions, find a friend whose style you trust.

• Length.

Do you want something knee length, tea length, floor-length? Do you want a train?

• Fashion.

What’s in style? This may or may not matter to you, but it’s worth examining. One trip to the library or a glance through a wedding magazine or a tour on-line is going to give you very good clues about what’s out there.

• Fabric.

What kind of fabric do you want to wear? There are so many wonderful choices. You want the fabric to be appropriate to the season (which was why I was wearing velvet – ooh it was cold.) If you don’t know what’s available, go spend some time in a high-end fabric shop. (Beware, it can be addictive.)

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• Designer.

Do you have a favorite designer for your every day clothes? Do they do wedding dresses, and if not, you want to use them as a cue for what makes you feel comfortable. 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 or a beach wedding with waves?

• Ethnic heritage.

I don’t know why more people don’t draw on their ethnic heritage when they’re marrying. There are so many fabulous styles and colors that the white dress often doesn’t measure up to. Many people of European extraction are here long enough and lived through enough assimilation that they have no ties to their family’s culture. But I always think there’s something wonderful about those accents, even if you don’t want to use the entire outfit. Many cultures have symbols to be embroidered in white on white and they make the dresses fabulously interesting.

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• Comfortable.

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.

The last and most importantly are… You should look fabulous! It’s your wedding.

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