that some brides should not choose strapless dresses.....

[PosieParker]

Just saw another collection of pictures with a bride getting married in a dress where humongous breasts are nearly falling out and arms are huge. Now I've seen a few curvy girls look lovely like this and so it's not a size thing, but more of a suitability thing. I am not large but my arms are not small and so I wouldn't wear this. Why do some folk not know their own shape?

LeQueen

There´s also a black & white pic of a guy with his hand on your neck pulling you in for a kiss.

I´m thinking that that´s your husband?

I think that's the English, younger, slimmer and sexier brother of Joey from "Friends"

Love the laughing official in the background! DH and I had much hilarity at our wedding because the best man was racing away to get the sodding ring which he had left behind. I had just put on a substitute ring when he crashed through the doors with mine and it was suggested that we all had a whip-round for his speeding fines

Mine will be strapless, but with a lace bolero over the top. I swore I wouldn't go strapless, but when I tried the sample on it looked awesome. I'm also lucky in that I managed to find a lovely, totally unpretentious but wildly talented dressmaker who's going to do a completely bespoke silk dress plus bolero for me for about half what I'd pay for something off-the-peg from a 'famous name' designer

"I think that's the English, younger, slimmer and sexier brother of Joey from "Friends""

Hope not, as that´s who I´m married to

Cheers LeQueen.

at diddl being married to your DH and vice versa.

I watched the programme 4 weddings all afternoon yesterday and a few of the bustier girls had strapless dresses on , and i dont think it looked right at all especially later on and boobies seemed to be escaping all over the place and the dresses seemed to fall down , and bits were falling out over the sides , not a good look , I think some brides should go for straps to keep it all in place ,

YABU as it is up to the bride and also why should big people have to cover up? Would we rather just see perfect bodies on display or 'normal' people with their flab and rolls?

I myself wouldn't wear strapless and didn't on my wedding day (even though i was quite slim). But most gowns I tried on were skimpy round the top. Not for me.

"Flab and rolls"? No, I don't want to see people's flab and rolls on display, sorry if that makes me a terrible person!

There is such a dearth of anything with any form of straps or sleeves in the wedding dress line, such a shame as the strapless look is so overdone. I used to wear lovely strapless cocktail dresses when I was younger, however when I got married I wanted something a little more demure for church (despite not being large all over I am fairly large of nork) and was bored bored bored of everyone getting wed sans straps. Took a while to find something suitable, anything with straps seemed to be aimed at an older generation...

I don't count spaghetti straps either, not flattering in my opinion.

O course it´s up to the bride.

Just a shame many think that they look good in strapless when they could look better in something else.

Oh, if anyone is after a strapped wedding dress in approx a 14 let me know, I really should do something with mine!

Sud your wedding dress sounds similar to the one i wore on my wedding day. It was classy and sophisticated and people who have seen my wedding photos
have all said that they wished that they had worn a dress with sleeves.
Kate Middletonn's dress was nice. However . the best 'royal 'dress was worn by Princess Margaret's daughter; Sarah Chatto.
BTW, my dress was made by a dressmaker. The material was £300(it was silk iivory) and cost £150 to sew. Many of the guest at the wedding thought that my dress cost over three grand.

Yes everybody loved mine aswell (not that you're gonna say different to a bride but even since then people have come into house and commented straight away on my wedding pic or brought it up). l dont agree that you can only either look sassy,sexy versus innocent and demure.
I think the chic sophisticated look can look just as sexy or sassy or whatever.

(l know what l mean - thats the main thing ! ).

Understated - now theres a word that says a lot

Wow what a catty OP- are you not happy in yourself dear? Thats a shame! these women who you slate more than likely are so who gives a gnats piss what people like you think!

My sister managed to get away with a strapless dress in scarlet. She managed this because she is a tiny size 6 with the most amazing ivory skin with shoulders and bone structure you could die for. So she avoided that horrible backboob thing that almost always happens.

Bitch

This was my gown, blerdy loved it. DH said I looked like Gandulf and elfin princess.

Would we rather just see perfect bodies on display or 'normal' people with their flab and rolls?

Surely your wedding day is the one day you want to look good and not have flab and rolls hanging out?

TheBolter, I am under 35. White makes me look washed out and ill, however old I am I'd rather look healthy at my wedding. My legal wedding I'm wearing red and black. I'm quite expecting people to judge and I don't mean because of the meaning of white, it's pretty clear I have children, but doing something so different.

diddl, don't know it's not been designed yet, although I like floor length sleeves so thinking of going fot that. The red and black one is a corset (and I mean corset!) and skirt so it will be. I'm an H cup so should be interesting!

VikingLady, you sound so much like me! I agree, everyone else can get knotted, if that's what she's decided on, what makes her a bride, what has it to do with anyone else? I get annoyed at plastic bones, especially when they put them in and call it a corset. I refuse to even spend much time looking at wedding dresses, part the reason I'm having one made, because I'll find all the faults and whilst it doesn't matter as much on something cheap from Tesco if it has faults, I don't want to find them in a wedding dress.

LeQueen, does it matter what anyone else thinks of it if she feels special? It's her day. What if the dress everyone else said suited her didn't feel right and she felt uncomfortable all day just so people didn't have to put up wtih her "back fat"? You obviously didn't have any problems with friends not telling you anything, you look lovely

People should wear what they want - regardless of their age and size! What's it to you what people wear?! Concentrate on yourself and leave others to look how they want to.

What do you wear when you're 39 in the height of an Australian Summer please? DH and I got maried with no fuss in the UK and he wants to do a big ceremony in Oz next Christmas for his mates and family ....I'm up for that...but whatstyle to wear? In our UK wedding, I wore a very simple 50s style dress which I borrowed! I'm going to be 39 by next CHristmas...it will be hot, hot hot and I am pale pale pale!

I have no boobs a small upper body and waist but larger down below....I'm a pear...size 12....I can't pull off a beach babe look at 39! I like vintage style...not strapless....we may do it all on the beach....or in his Dads garden....thinking vintage style do..trad slightly naff with rose arch etc...I don't do strapless!