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Do you still love your wedding dress?

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weddingdressregrett · 21/12/2021 21:58

I'm recently married and we have just received our wedding pics.

Really dislike how I look in my dress and my hair. Already!

Do you still look back and love how you looked?

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Ihaveroyallyscrewedup · 22/12/2021 03:03

The husband is gone but I still wear the dress on lovely summer days!

ApolloandDaphne · 22/12/2021 03:09

I was married 36 years ago and wore an 80's meringue. I still adore my dress. It was absolutely what I wanted and I look so young and radiant in it. I have such happy memories of a fantastic day.

HelloBunny · 22/12/2021 03:24

Got mine in a boutique, it’s the sort of dress I can wear again on a summer’s day. It’s lovely, and I looked great on the day. Gave the shoes away, don’t know why...
Hair, it was a brilliant haircut so I just washed & it dried itself into nice loose curls. Just used the hotel shampoo! Did my own make-up, with Chanel lipstick as a special treat.

Thursa · 22/12/2021 04:20

I didn’t love it when I bought it. There was one shop in town that sold wedding dresses and it was the only one that could be altered to fit a short, busty woman.

ShottaSheriff · 22/12/2021 04:29

Yes I love mine 6 years on. It’s a beautifully made to measure lace 1950s style dress. I have it boxed up and wrapped in special paper. I guess for DD to have if she wants it. The only slight twinge I have was that there was another dress that I adored that I also wish I could have worn. It was a less conventional choice but very lovely - the ideal scenario would have been to have had both!

ImmutableSexQueen · 22/12/2021 05:03

1978 so 43 years ago. I love my unconventional dress, and my pretty shoes, and my hair. Though the 'up' hairstyle was backcombed and took ages to comb out the next day. Divorce came through in 1988...

Bubblty · 22/12/2021 05:07

Yes, perfect dress for me

Ericaequites · 22/12/2021 05:41

I still love the pink eyelet dress I made myself, but loathe the ex husband.

Sockwomble · 22/12/2021 06:25

I still think the dress was beautiful although I lost a lot of weight between buying it and the wedding and even with alterations it I can see it looked big on me. I did look young and very happy. Looking back the best part of the day was having all our family and friends with us - the video is a record of our families at that time and I like watching it to see everyone.

OhGiveUp · 22/12/2021 06:38

I loved both my dresses , I still do almost forty years later. ( You have to get married in the town hall before you can marry in church in my home country, hence two weddings )
I did my own make up and hair so I have no issues with those.

cantbeforeal · 22/12/2021 06:40

No 4 years later i can't stand how I looked on wedding day. I've taken my wedding photos down at home cuz it's annoying me looking at myself 🥴

GlumyGloomer · 22/12/2021 08:04

Ambivalent. I look nice in the photos, and it was a lot of fun to dance in (ankle length and no train, so the skirt flared and swished wonderfully) but I do remember the dress I nearly picked, and wish i'd had the guts to go for it. We nicknamed it swan lake because of the ruffled skirt, and it basically felt too flamboyant for a shy bride.

Orreries · 22/12/2021 08:07

I got married in jeans, biker boots and a pea coat in 2012, and I still wear all three and like them. Grin

ufucoffee · 22/12/2021 08:09

No, it's a bit dated now. Also I had fake tan on and I look orange. Hair is ok though.

BeyondOurReef · 22/12/2021 08:14

I didn’t have a dress and did not love what I had at the time. It was a skirt and a top, bought cheaply (whole outfit, including shoes, was under £100) and it was too big. No getting my hair done or make up done by someone who knows what they’re doing.

Luckily there are also precious few photos of the event!

The whole thing was a last minute compromise on the basis there’d be a proper wedding with an actual dress etc post covid. There never was. Or will be. He spent far more on a new suit (because he could wear it at the event with guests too, whereas it would be ridiculous for me to get married at the registry office in an actual wedding dress or spend much on an outfit 🙄🙄).

Grumpyosaurus · 22/12/2021 08:14

Yep, after >25 years. The dress really suited me, I did my own hair, minimal make-up so I looked like me.

I look at the photos and think, bloody hell, we were actually quite a good-looking couple!

And last time I tried, I could still get into the dress. Probably not now, though.

Roominmyhouse · 22/12/2021 08:17

10 years on and I do love my dress, it was beautiful and I felt amazing in it. Would I pick the same dress again now? Probably not. I had a huge tulle and lace dress with a long train. If it was now I’d probably go tea length!

CoverYourselfInChocolateGlory · 22/12/2021 08:17

I still like the overall look I had for my wedding, although my hair was a little fussy with a gazillion pins in it that took bloody ages to take out. My wedding dress was ruined by the dry cleaner afterwards though Sad

Avarua · 22/12/2021 08:40

Yes I love it. Very classic. I'm way too fat for it now though.

honeylulu · 22/12/2021 09:36

I still love the dress. It's hanging up in the spare room wardrobe but I'd never get in it again as the waist is tiny. I deliberately chose something very classical so it wouldn't "date". Having said that, it was an ex display one and although I had it altered twice the bodice was still a bit gapey at the top which you can see in some of the photos and I really wish I'd thought to pad it out a bit more and add some tape!

Although I still love the dress I hate almost all of my wedding photos. I was a nervous wreck leading up to the wedding, barely slept and had a constantly upset stomach so I was ridiculously thin (7.5 stone and 5 foot 6) and my skin looked dreadful. My MIL caused a huge drama the day before so I ended up not getting my roots done as planned. I tried to cover that with the tiara/veil but it's really obvious in the close up pics. Then on the morning I had done my hair in loose curls with heated rollers (couldn't afford to have it done at hairdressers), we went into the garden for some pre-wedding photos and suddenly the heavens opened and I got soaked. I managed to dry my hair off before leaving but it looked like rats tails.

When I saw the photos I hated them. People told me they'd grow on me but no more than 20 years later I hate them more than ever! Still happily married though which is the most important thing!

Twattergy · 22/12/2021 09:59

Twelve years ago and I still like the dress, v simple, classic and fitted well (I was tiny too!). I had a complete up do with small flowers in which looks a bit formal to me now, but at the time I liked it and it looked nice in photos. I would love to pick a new dress now though,there is so much more choice these days and styles are more fashion led. I really struggled to find something with no bling on it back then.

Tittyfilarious81 · 22/12/2021 10:04

I've been married 18 years and I still think my dress is gorgeous 😍

mellyt95 · 22/12/2021 10:05

Got married two weeks ago and hate mine now!

The100thHoliday · 22/12/2021 10:13

No.

To be fair, I didn’t put much thought into it. We had a tiny registry office wedding and it was much more about being married than ‘a big day’. The dress was only £250 from Monsoon. But no, I don’t like how I looked that day at all. Eye make-up a bit too heavy. A very dated up-do (was fashionable at the time). And a strapless dress which was a mistake with big knockers.

But hey, I was young, slim and gorgeous with great skin, and I look SO ridiculously happy, so I get lots of joy looking at my wedding photos even if I did look a bit tacky.

Tittyfilarious81 · 22/12/2021 10:50

@mellyt95 why do you hate your dress now ?