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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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ellceeell · 14/09/2007 11:24

Mine is 25 years old. I certainly don't fit in it any longer but I still love it. My mum made it for me. It was broiderie anglaise with yellow ribbons inset into the sleeves and belt and laced up at the front - hard to describe properly - I felt beautiful in it!

MamaG · 14/09/2007 11:28

Mrs Badger - whenever I pictured you, I never imagined you without a head

Tamdin · 14/09/2007 11:56

love your dress mrs badger very elegant/chic/timless

pointydog · 14/09/2007 12:09

I still like my wedding dress.

Still can't believe I let myself get carried away and paid 700 squids for it.

Tamdin · 14/09/2007 12:12

forgot to say i still love mine too.

A male guest said to me on our wedding day " you know you're supposed to put your wedding dress on every year to make sure you don't gain weight"

stripeybumpsmum · 14/09/2007 12:47

I had very set ideas about what I wanted to wear, and yet chose a dress completely the opposite of what I expected. Very sparkly corsetted Maggie Sottero number that cost, frankly, a ridiculous amount of money. My mum insisted on paying, and we paid the rest of the wedding costs (which paled into insignificance).

I was told (didn't believe anyone) that I would just 'know' which dress was right and I have to agree, despite grumbling incessantly in the shop there was no way I was wearing a meringue.

Strange thing is, DH said it was exactly how he'd imagined me!

I really must get around to putting it on ebay. Not like I will be wearing it again - the benefits (?) of two HG pregnancies, BF and running after a toddler mean I could probably wrap it around twice now! Perhaps DS would be interested in a sparkly ivory tent.....

NDPWantsANewCamera · 14/09/2007 12:51

Erm, yes, I still like it.

I only got married 4 years ago so it hasn't really had time to 'date'. Will I still like it in 25yrs time ? Who knows ?

binkleandflip · 14/09/2007 12:52

I bought my dress off the peg the day after we decided to get married.

Picked the best one that fit me on the day - it was £500 - because I couldnt bear the months of agonising and trying on 1000's of dresses that some folk enjoy - not my thing.

Anyhoo, had a great wedding, the dress got completely trashed at the reception - train stood on thus lining ripped, orange juice spilt all over the bodice by dd - and it ended the evening in a black bin bag - where it still resides in my wardrobe. It needs binning but dh is sentimental about it, even though it looks and smells like a dishcloth .

Paddington64 · 14/09/2007 13:47

Hate the first one!! Stupid flouncy meringue creation! (what was I thinking??!!) and hate outfit I wore for 2nd marriage! Registry office so didn't make too much of an effort, gorgeous skirt, crappy top!!!! Love looking at the photos though if only to remember how gorgeously slim I was!!

theUrbanDryad · 14/09/2007 13:54

i loved my wedding dress - the only reason i really wanted to get married was so i could wear a pretty frock! my mum made it for me (pictures on my profile, though don't think you can see the dress that well)

jacobandlysette · 14/09/2007 15:58

i loved mine. duchesse satin fitted bodice, strapless with little satin fifties bow sewn along the top and very long train. felt absolutely beautiful in it.

it was the first dress i tried on and i just knew. mum and bridesmaid made me try on about 50 other dresses but kept coming back to that one.

only 2.5 years ago but pg for 2nd time so not sure i'd fit in at the moment. hopefully after

eemie · 14/09/2007 16:25

January wedding - beautiful velvet suit, special but not particularly bridal. Still love it and have worn it for parties, dinners, christenings, a golden wedding...I gulped a bit at the price but it's worked out quite cheap in the end.

SpawnChorus · 14/09/2007 16:55

here is my dress

I like it as a dress, but in retrospect I would have gone for something a bit more weddingy and flouncy (although not nec white). I had only one day to find a dress with my Mum. She was v ill at the time, and couldn't do much traipsing around London. I don't know London at all well (ooooarrrrr [country-bumpkin] so had to rely on her to recommend shops. She loved this dress, so I just went with it.

BlueChampagne · 14/09/2007 17:04

Loved mine but it was only a year ago. £99 ivory silk from Oxfam, and to Oxfam it returned. It needed no alterations, unlike the new ones I tried on, even tho they proported to be my size! Got rather cynical looking at alterations charges ... also love the shoes that I had dyed purple, still have and still wear.

berolina · 14/09/2007 17:06

Mine was a lovely dress (high street, not weddingy) and very appropriate at the time (7 years ago - I was 23), but if I were doing it again now I would definitely go for something very different (probably not classically weddingy either, but different)

pyjamaqueen · 14/09/2007 17:07

Still love. (But I haven't looked at it for 10 years, so it might be worse than I thought.)

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Dropdeadfred · 14/09/2007 17:29

Spawnchorus your dress was lovely.

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gibberish · 14/09/2007 17:31

Good grief am I think only one? Cringe cringe cringe. Hated it on the day and have hidden all my wedding photos. Left it in the hands of someone to alter it for me and it turned up on the morning with big pink bows all over it Truly hideous.

Jamantha · 14/09/2007 18:03

Love my dress. Have lost weight since wedding, so now hangs rather shapelessly, but still feel really special if I put it on.

NAB3 · 14/09/2007 18:09

Love it.

Moomin · 14/09/2007 18:12

Spawnchorus - am bowled over by your dress, the venue, and you and your dh look gorgeous. What a fantastic place to get married - love the gothicness and colours!

Kind of wish I'd had something more traditional and classic, but I loved the colours (reds, golds, oranges) at the time and there's no point having regrets really. The wedding (and marriage!) itself was/is fab, so that's the main thing.

SpawnChorus · 14/09/2007 19:00

Moomin and DDF - thank you so much!!!

vnmum · 16/09/2007 10:15

still love mine - it was ivory duchess satin, long a line skirt, strapless boned bodice with gold embroidery and a detachable train with gold embroidery around the edge. i will have to lose some weight before i can get in it again and maybe even a boob reduction (slightly larger after 1 child, breastfeeding and now DC2 on the way) but i was thinking of dying the skirt and then wearing it with the bodice to formal occasions so i get some more wear out of it(minus the train, obviously).

if i were choosing today i would probably choose it again or something very similar

alexw · 16/09/2007 19:15

Love it and will be wearing it again when we renew our vows on our 10th anniversary!!

GreebosWhiskers · 16/09/2007 20:27

Hate my first one (it was a meringue made by my ex-mil & at the time it was beautiful - so well-made with enough lace to stretch twice round the garden, beads and dozens of tiny pearl buttons). My parents paid for my first wedding & dictated what I could & couldn't have (I didn't want to wear white at all but wound up doing it).

Love my second wedding dress. It was a skirt & bodice with a wrap & I walked into the shop & the colour just kind of leapt out at me from the sea of white & ivory so I bought it

I've added some pics of my 2nd dress to my profile.

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