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Do you still love, or now cringe, at your wedding dress?

102 replies

Dropdeadfred · 13/09/2007 09:56

Whilst trying to choose a wedding dress and being both depressed and amazed at the choices out there i got wondering..

How many people who love love loved their dream dress still love it and do any of you now look and cringe or really wish they'd chosen differently?

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numptysmummy · 13/09/2007 11:22

I love mine but i would also love to marry dh again just so i could wear something more girly this time.1st dress was quite plain,straight with off shouloder neckline and scarf type thine attached to both sides at back that you coulod wear as a train or drape over your arms. And i can get into it 8yrs and 3 more kids later

bagpuss · 13/09/2007 11:24

Mine is OK, it was nearly 11 years ago that I wore it but would probably choose something similar if I still had the same figure! If I had more money I might have chosen differently too.

MrsBadger · 13/09/2007 12:05

still love it
no way I'd get into it at the moment though

(pic here for nosey Fred )

rantinghousewife · 13/09/2007 12:11

I still love mine but, it is a very simple dress and not very weddingy, on the really wicked side, mil has our wedding photo on her wall, next to SIL. And SIL had a great big diana meringue thing that looks absolutely 80's and hideous. Pmsl everytime I see it.

funnypeculiar · 13/09/2007 12:12

Love it (simple, no fuss) but like others occassionally wish I'd gone for something more full on & Bridal, as I have more of a sense now that actually the whole princess for a day thing is a laugh - at the time it felt cringey.

I know that I would have looked
a) an arse
b) ceompletely, freakishly unlike myself

in meringue however

PippiLangstrump · 13/09/2007 12:14

love it to bits. I pray pray that I get to wear it again. (DH worries about this wish!)

tissy · 13/09/2007 12:14

still love it, but can't fit into it!

Long, deep red dupion silk with high collar and leg of mutton sleeves

Chickhick · 13/09/2007 12:16

I love it, 11 years on but it is still the kind of style that I would go for now. Very elegant and simple, lace, straight with a long duchess satin train.

MrsBadger · 13/09/2007 12:18

pippi, track down a wedding dress ball - several charities hold them, so it'd be for a good cause too...
one here for breast cancer
one on saturday!

PippiLangstrump · 13/09/2007 12:30

Oh MrsBadger that is great! Didn't know there were things like that.
I suppose mine could be worn on different occasions as it is not stricktly bridal (although cream and long). still not a your mate's BBQ IFSWIM.

MaureenMLove · 13/09/2007 12:30

I, famously, put mineon every year on our anniversary! Its usually because we've had a bbq and I'm drunk, but nevertheless! I've been married 16 years btw!

PippiLangstrump · 13/09/2007 12:34

well done MaureenM.
If I dod that however I will certainly end up with a burnt dress. I am such a fist (sp?)! I almost ruined mine on my wedding day scraping it agains a wall, and almost weed on it . wasn't even that drunk.

Alva · 13/09/2007 12:35

Love it. It was second hand, but silk - seems a good compromise as I couldn't see myself wearing nylon, but equally couldn't manage thousands on a new silk dress.

RosaLuxembourg · 13/09/2007 12:37

I quite like mine - though as my mum basically chose it I never really felt it was 'the one'. Still it was fairly plain and classic and I could wear it now 12 years later without embarrassment should the occasion arise. And it still fits!

TellusMater · 13/09/2007 12:41

Love it. My mum made it .

FluffyMummy123 · 13/09/2007 12:48

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fireflyfairy2 · 13/09/2007 12:53

Mrs Badger, were your collar, sleeves & buttons removable? It looks fab!

I had only turned 20 when we got married. I wore Ivory & organza

It was A-line & had a few pearls around the nexk line, the skirt was organza & I had about a million wee tiny buttons down the back of it.

I loved it at the time.

Would I choose it again now? No, I wouldn't. I would choose something classic, a plain simple dress. When I look at my wedding photos I see a small girl in a massive dress, I really do look like I playing princess for the day!

I wore a veil but never put it over my face. I wore a tiara also, but a girl who worked in the office of my work at the time, looked at the photos & said "Oh, you wore a tiara....I think only a certain amount of people can get away with a tiara" Then didn't elaborate whether or not I was in the certain amount

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Dropdeadfred · 13/09/2007 14:54

Mrs B, you looked fab, as I knew you would...

Come on everyone else, if you loved it where are your proud pics?

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MaryAnnSingleton · 13/09/2007 15:03

no ! I may have chosen something differet now,iyswim..
it was those wide trousers (forget what they're called - palazzo pants - that's it) in a cream silk with a devore top and matching long devore jacket - sounds weird but it was very nice...I had gold mules. Maybe I'd wear something more fitted now . Can't remember how much it cost but was by English Eccentrics and came from Matches in Richmond.

ShinyHappySchmooo · 13/09/2007 15:07

Mine was shit. Well both of them. In the first I look like Bo Beep (bleuurgh) with a strange veil, that my friend made, that looked like a nun's habit...

My second, I thought was oh-so-stylish.. I found a dress maker in the Thompson and asked her to copy a dress I found in a wedding mag. It was short (ye Gods! Short! what was I thinking!) and flared (!).. and I didn't have the legs for it even then!

My first wedding, but for the Bo-Beep faux pas, was a lovely occasion.. everything went swimmingly.. except the marriage. My second wedding, everything that could conceivably go wrong, did, including my DS1 then age 3, who screamed throughout the civil ceremony so much that my sister (a "bridesmaid".. as much as you need a bridesmaid in a register office) has to take him out.. and she (and he!) missed the wedding.

The marriage, however, has been eventful (twelve years Sunday) but on the whole.. good.

jumpyjan · 13/09/2007 15:07

Still love mine but there is no way I could get into it now. Fortunately its out of reach in the loft so its not possible to have a go at squeezing into it again at thought!

claricebeansmum · 13/09/2007 15:09

It was a scarlet maternity suit - it suited the occasion but can't say I'm longing for it now!

grouchyoscar · 13/09/2007 15:44

Loved mine and 12 years later, still do and it fits me better

Mind you it is a blue/purple plaid flannel long dress that looked great with DMs

Not a conventional dress, matched the bride and the wedding and...unconventionally, still going strong

AeFondKiss · 13/09/2007 15:46

luff mine still... I looked so tiny in it.... sigh