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Did you take your mum wedding dress shopping?

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JammyCandy · 27/02/2022 14:16

….Assuming you get on with her and that she was physically able to participate in wedding dress shopping.

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ImAvingOops · 27/02/2022 20:10

I took my mum, mil, dh to be and my baby ds. I didn't want a traditional wedding dress and was thinking of an evening dress instead, so didn't do the traditional wedding shop thing.
That said, we found a gorgeous wedding dress in monsoon, back when they were one of the first high street shops to sell off the peg wedding dresses. Then I ended up in a wedding shop because my mum talked me into getting a tiara and veil. I'm glad she was with me, but I wish in retrospect I'd gone without dh and ds. It would have been a more chilled out day, but we were trying to do too much in one day.

Mumski45 · 27/02/2022 20:14

I was MOB last year and my DD took me to some but not all of her dress shopping trips. In the end I was not there when she made the final decision but she did choose one I had picked for her to try. I also went to all of her fittings. I think it depends on the individual and relationship with their Mum.

user1487194234 · 27/02/2022 20:23

Yes
Was such a lovely day x

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saraclara · 27/02/2022 20:25

It was a long time ago. I didn't set out to go dress shopping, but we were staying with my SIL and the two of us were walking in her town when we saw a dress in the window of Laura Ashley (I never intended to have a full-on bridal gown). We went in, I tried it on, and bingo. I had a dress.

My mum was devastated to find that I'd bought a dress without her, but I had never given a thought to going shopping for one with her. I was quite glad it happened how it did, because I really wouldn't have wanted her there.

On the other hand, my DD asked me to join her, her best friends and her sis to go dress shopping, and I loved it. Such a happy day.

NeedWineNow · 27/02/2022 20:34

Yes, and she absolutely loved it. We had a couple of differences of opinion (ahem) but by and large we had a fun time. She did insist on me trying on a shell pink ballgown with matching veil, but I told her I looked like the Fairy Godmother and all I needed was a wand which scuppered that one.

Erictheavocado · 27/02/2022 20:54

Absolutely not - I would still have been shopping for it now, instead if being about to celebrate our ruby wedding! I had seen a dress I liked in a wedding dress book, tried it on and fell immediately in love. Ordered it there and then. Took my mum to see it a few days later, when it was too late for her to try and change my mind.

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 27/02/2022 21:14

Yes. Mum was losing her sight and I wanted to make sure she saw the dress. It was the second one that I tried on and Mum then offered to pay. She was a dressmaker in her younger days so I was shocked when the dress met her strict standards!

pradavilla · 28/02/2022 21:08

Yeah just me and mum. We went twice, it was hard going. I thought it wld be fun but actually going to 3-4 different shops and trying on several different dresses all in the one day isn't fun at all! I think she'd have been a bit miffed if I hadn't asked her. It is totally normal to have ur mum there!

I then got my sister to come when I was down to 2 dresses to help me pick. She had 3 kids and works so she just wouldn't have had the time to come with me.

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