Do you still love your wedding dress?

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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?

I hide my wedding photos. Married 37 yrs ago at 18 and look like a toilet dolly. Weddings were not big business then and we had no money so do my own hair and make up.

Hated it on the day, hate it now - would burn it if I got the chance!! Biggest waste of money and I'm very bitter about it

Still love my dress. But as others have said hate my hair! Stupid hairdresser did it how she styled her hair. And forgot to put hairspray on so by the end of the day was a frizzy mess.

Yes I love mine still, it wasn't an "in trend" dress it was pretty simple so i think it has aged well. married 15 years now

No I hate it! For some reason I decided I wanted some gold tones in my dress, and it just didn't go with my colouring at all. I can't look at the colour wedding photos comfortably 😂. The black and white ones are nice! Should have gone for a white dress, being as virginal as I was 🙄.

@HelloBunny

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.

You sound like one of those women who just wakes up looking fabulous and makes the rest of the female population seethe quietly

I still love my dress. I got married at a time where literally everyone wore a strapless dress, so I love that mine was different (not in a 'unique and wacky' way, it was just different) and I still love it now and would wear it again tomorrow if some adjustments could be made!

Loved my makeup too, but really didn't like my hair.

I was married 20 years ago and still love my dress. I was aware of choosing something classic and elegant - an off white mikado silk plain A-line but beautifully cut (and 3 dress sizes smaller!)

I smile whenever I see my wedding pictures. I’m happy with the way I looked. I’m pretty low maintenance so difficult to mess up my hair or makeup.

Yes, I still like my dress,.apart from my big boobs in it ( or rather nearly out of it 😆 🤣) Was self conscious about it on the day tbh. We discovered on the day that an alteration to the dress which was promised hadn't been done the way it was supposed to be done.

Yes I loved my dress and how I looked. From the first time I saw it and bought it in instalments over 6 months, had the dress before the husband Not traditional white, dark blue velvet bodice and white lace. Taken me 20 years but I can finally wear it again and love swooshing about the house in it

Hopefully in time, you will look at your photos and see the happy memories of your day.

I do love my dress. Wish I was a bit slimmer and my hair was a bit longer but still love the look

I love my dress, but on the day I had relatives help to do the ties up the back. They did the best they could but it wasn't as fitted as the shop did. Every time I sat down it seemed to give out a little if that makes sense? So as the day went on I looked bigger (it was a bit skirty satin affair).

I wish I'd had another hairdo though. I had a half up do with lovely curls, but I should have known better. Curls don't last in my hair, by the time the photos came around they'd gone and I looked like I had rats tails hanging off my head

I'm really happy with my outfit. I wore a bridesmaid dress which still didn't fit quite properly around the bust on the day despite getting it adjusted by a tailor, but no biggie, it's not like it cost thousands, or was even the most expensive thing I've worn. I got a hat and shoes handmaid and those were great. Very happy with how I looked - my sister did my makeup, I didn't do an awful lot with my hair, it was sort of a slightly-grown out crop, but looks OK in pics. I got it cut to more of a bob a few weeks later that I probably should have done before the wedding, but I'm still happy with it. The important thing was I got married looking like me

Hated my dress and my hair. Did what was ‘expected’ of me. Wish I’d been stronger. Not DH expectations but friends and family railroading me. Still with my lovely DH 18 years later and there have been more amazing days than I can count so it’s not something I now dwell on. If we ever renew our vows it will be a very relaxed affair

Yes, because my dress was an Ian Stuart one and he only makes beautiful dresses. I felt amazing.

I found this thread interesting as I got weirdly addicted to Say Yes To The Dress in lockdown (I'm definitely not its target demographic).

I genuinely can't remember the bridal hair or make up from any wedding I've ever been to; I'm sorry to hear so many women fret about it years later.

Yes, I still love my dress. It was quite a classic style though and didn’t follow the fashion for strapless dresses which were popular at the time. I still have it but couldn’t fit in it now!

I adore my dress over 12 years later. Wish I'd managed to lose a bit more fat for the day but still felt/looked pretty good.

I look gorgeous in my wedding photos. Makes it harder to be such a wizened old hag now though.

No, I hated it even before the wedding. Looking back I should have tried on more dresses. The one I ended up with was not the style or colour I really wanted but with people saying it was"the one" and to stop looking I just got swept along. Never felt comfortable in it and I think it shows in the pictures. Doesn't help that the make up and hair woman rushed me and I ended up with a hair style that fell out before the pictures and aunt Sally blusher. I still feel sad about it when I look at pictures but there's not much I can do now.

I had a pale pink twenties style dress overlaid with cream lace. It was comfortable, flattering and I loved it. It hasn’t dated in the photos after 32 years.

I sold it several years later and used to money to fund a trip to New York to visit my sibling and leave DH and DC for a week. Had an amazing time so that dress served me well.

I saw my nan 10 days before she died unexpectedly. Our last conversation was about the type of wedding dress she always pictured me wearing. I was getting married a year later. I was the only granddaughter.
Not long after her funeral, I walked past a wedding shop and in the window was the dress my nan described to every detail. I went straight into the shop and ordered it.
My nan left me some inheritance and I used her money to pay for the dress, veil, shoes and the flowers for the wedding.
I love the dress. It is something that I wouldn't have chosen for myself but it is so intertwined with my nan who I absolutely adored. I love that she had a massive part of my wedding day, even though she wasn't physically able to be there.

Yep. Might be because I was 24 and am 60 now though 😁
Seriously it was a nice frock and the colour suited me (purple!)