To buy a wedding dress 1/2 sizes too small

I did this - and it worked. Went on the cabbage soup diet and dropped a stone. This was in 1998 and I was 26. So possible ... I am five foot ten and went from ten and a half stone to nine and a half. Best of luck!

Be wary of buying the 8 and then trying to resell it - secondhand bridal is notoriously difficult to sell - only buy it if you're happy to potentially lose a lot of money. I'm in a few bridal reselling groups and lots of dresses sit for months, if they sell at all. It's like a brand new car - as soon as the dress leaves the bridal shop, the value plummets and the older the design is and the more owners it's had, the less it's worth whether you've worn it or not. Ellis Bridals make beautiful dresses but they're kind of a mid range bridal designer so they don't hold value the same way a top end designer dress would. I'm just mentioning it to be wary of spending almost a grand on a dress you might not be able to wear or resell easily.

It's silly because a beautiful dress is a beautiful dress, but most brides want to buy new and if not buying new, they want rock bottom prices.

Try in a size 10 and 12 at full price before deciding.

Get the size 10 body suit.

If you're five foot nothing then the original skirt would need so much shortening to stop you drowning in it that you might as well get a dressmaker to make it up from scratch. It won't be cheap but it'll be way less than two grand.

I lost a stone to get into mine. Mine was on sale too at half off! Fruit and vegetables all day, ever day and 20 minutes of exercise. It's definitely doable if you have to will power. However if you don't, then do not get it. My friend held off her wedding dress to lose weight. She had a year to lose weight. 3 months before the wedding she was exactly the same size! She ended up buying one in her exact size last minute. If you find a bigger size cheaper, you could have it altered?! That would be better than losing weight and worrying about fitting into a tiny one?! Also the sizes of the wedding dresses aren't the same as high street sizes, they are way smaller. If you get one that laces up entirely at the back it will give you leeway.

Have you ever been a size 8 before? Do you know how much weight you would need to lose to fit into it?

Have you tried on the dress in your usual size and do you know whether you would currently need a 10 or a 12?

I think at your height dropping to a size 8 in 14 months is probably very doable as long as you are disciplined about it.

I'm taller than you and I lost 5kg in about 3 months before my wedding which meant I had to get my size 10 dress altered to a size 8. I wished I'd just bought the size 8.

Wedding dresses are often sized very small so it may say 8 but fit like a 6. If its feasible for you and you've been that weight before then you've got plenty of time to safely lose the weight you want. You could always get it but keep looking for a 10 and then resell the 8 if you do find it in your size.

Before committing please try the dress on somewhere else.

Unless you are close to 6ft tall and will be wearing high heels you will probably be at least a foot shorter than the model in the dress so it will look completely different proportion wise.

Looks like the one 👏👏👏

You might still need to get a size 10 altered but its much more possible if the dress is closer to your actual size.

A bit against the grain but if it's truly one size down plus has a very full skirt that should be doable, if it's a size you've been before and would like to be again. Is it far from you, maybe the seller would let you come and try on without doing up?

Buy the tens people have linked to on here quickly!

Is this the skirt

www.theivorylounge.co.uk/marie

Size 10 £450

Agreed that this looks sensible. I think the skirt looks perfectly doable by a seamstress - perhaps with a a circle skirt or similar if you wanted as that might be flatter (and potentially more flattering) on the waist.

I did this, bought my dress full price but sized down. It was the only time I’ve managed to be disciplined enough to stick to a diet and workout plan. I was a 14 but ordered a 12, which is actually more like a 10 high street sizes.

Do this!

Also, if you've not tried it on yet, you might not even like it. Ask at the shop when their sample (if it fits) sales will be. When I was looking for my dress, loads of the shops did a smaller sale in autumn. Most of the dress shops I went to had their samples in either a 10or 12 (normal dress size)

Measurements! I wore a size 8 wedding dress with a 34” bust, 26” waist. So for me it was true to size. Lovely dress!

This place has the bodysuit for £233 in a size 10. https://www.vickisbride.co.uk/collection/lisa-bodysuit

The skirt looks pretty ubiquitous - if you can't find one for less than £2000, a good bridal seamstress could probably make one for you very similar.

I'm a size 8-10 , my wedding dress was a size 12. I lost 10lbs before the day and I still don't think a 10 would have fitted me

I mean I don’t know - I sized down for my dress. if
you think-it could motivate you …

Horrible advice. Do not do this op.

Firstly, you'll want to get the dress altered so you'll need room for them to do that as needed. Plus wedding dresses tend to run small. Do you really want to put yourself under so much stress and pressure in the run up to your wedding when you could just be enjoying it? I wouldn't do it.

Have you tried a version of the dress on? IME Wedding dress sizes bear absolutely no resemblance to other clothes sizes - I am a size 16 in most clothes and my wedding dress was a size 24!!!

Don't do it. Find a dress you lobe that fits you now. There are,millions of them.

Nope, wedding dress sizes are so small (I was a size 10 when I got married and had to order a medium with slight adjustments).

See if you can try on that designers dresses somewhere to get a feel for the sizing and at least then you know what you need if you do keep looking preloved!

If its the same make and style as the one you tried on and fell in love with - what size was that, and how snugly did it fit?
What size jeans you wear is far less relevant if wedding dresses tend to come up small.