Thoughts on this wedding dress?

Yeah I think some cleavage showing with big boobs work, especially in a wedding dress.

i love the wedding dress, the gathers on the front do make it look like it’s too loose on the model but I think by the sounds of your figure it will work amazingly

Too much fabric around the boobs— it will make large boobs look larger. Speaking as a large-boobed woman. You need something streamlined yet with support and structure around the boobs. And/or a dress that allows a properly ‘upholstered’ bra.

Assuming your dress will actually fit you properly then it should look lovely and elegant. It's a good dress for an hourglass figure.

It doesn't fit the model at all. It looks like someone trying on someone else's dress. The shape is completely wrong.

That’s one of the best weddings dresses I’ve ever seen, it’s 100% to my taste, I absolutely love it! I would wear it without even looking for another dress, genuinely. It’s beautiful!

I don’t like it but I’m not the one wearing it.
It’s far too low cut for me.
I think very few people look great in strapless dresses. You have to have very toned arms and shoulders and a smaller bust.

It does look like it has too much loose draping around the bust and middle as it stands although that isn't a good picture.

It probably came up high on you because the sample was made for a taller person and is too long in the waist. You often see short brides with their bosom hoiked up to their chin in dresses that haven't been adjusted properly.
All strapless dresses should have the internal corset to stop them falling down, but you could have a well fitting corset inside a more streamlined and better fitting dress.

A bardot neckline can be nice if you have good shoulders but again it shouldn't be too droopy around the sleeves if you are short - better to have them follow the v -neck shape so higher across the shoulders (like this).

The fabric is lovely and you could still have a dress with some draping and detail, but you need to get the proportions right to flatter you. Your dressmaker if she is any good will work with you to get the right look. If Vivienne Westwood herself made your dress then she would do the same!

Yeah way too much boob for me..it’s night out level of boob show

having boobs out totally takes away the stylishness of the dress..

but I do understand if you want to have them out!

I love it, so stylish, however I’d think about the ruffles around boobs, they will accentuate them..I find I end up feeling like my boobs are coming out of my chin if I wear that Bardot style. Depends how big they are

I think it's gorgeous. But I would have it a bit more sleek across the belly (unless you've got a big belly!) and a bit higher up across the boobs so that not too much is on display.

I like it! Beautiful.

I love it.

I'm also short with an hourglass figure and dresses with that shape always really suit me. The shoulders are wide which will balance your hips.

I can see that some PPs are saying your boobs will be spilling out etc - but if the dress is a) well-made and b) the right size, that won't happen. If it's a properly made dress with laced corsetry to make sure it's properly fitted, it will feel secure and contain you perfectly well.

Too booby/Jessica Rabbit

It's stunning

You say you have big boobs but how big are they? I think anything over a 34 F wouldn't look good in that dress

too much boob just makes it look tacky. And fussing with your dress on your wedding day would be so uncomfortable to watch

The swathes of fabric at the front will accentuate any hint of a belly, which could risk people asking if you’re already pregnant. Not much fun on your wedding day.

It’s a beautiful dress but unless you’re 100% sure, keep looking. I tried on lots of dresses for my wedding and when I got to the one - I knew!!

Op, when you say And my waist is defined (for now), what do you mean? Is it looking likely it’s not going to be defined when you wear the dress so you’re hoping the draping disguises it?

It would probably make a difference to how people are viewing the dress if that’s the case.

Too much fabric on the front. Kangaroo pouch. I’m sure your dressmaker can adjust.

I hope that isn't someone on their wedding day as that lady looks terrible in that dress. Like she lost too much weight for the wedding and didn't have time to get it fixed. I think on someone voluptuous like you it will look fantastic.

The red dress doesn’t fit the person who’s wearing. Look at her boobs and see how one boob is away over to the other side of the coming in the middle. Perhaps if the dressmaker can make sure she makes the corset part fits you properly on the size everything else will work out ok. But to be honest, and without wishing to hurt you, the dress is very busy and confusing to look at with the draping in two substantial areas.

Having seen both your pictures, I think you're just going to look like it's falling down and doesn't fit you if you have that much boob showing and that much ruching and wrinkling, and those straps that always look like they're falling off your arms. I'm really not a fan of those straps though on any dress.

And as you said you're short, I think that effect will be heightened and you will look like you're wearing a dress that isn't the right size for you.

As a seamstress, I'm intrigued as to why you are having it made by someone else rather than just buying it directly from the person who has designed it though.

Yeah I don't think you could pay a dressmaker in a developed country to make something like this well.

By which I mean, it would actually end up more expensive than off the peg, if made really well.

Have you talked to the dress maker about your boobs etc?

It looks like it might have a built in corset, if it does then the dressmaker can lengthen it so the neckline isn't as low.

Is the dressmaker going to make a calico 'muslin' that will give you an idea of how it will look?