What did your wedding dress look like?

[SkaterGrrrrl]

Hmmmm?

Blimey - it's a whole new world out there.

Wedding 1 I wore a white hired meringue. Looked like a fat child bride. Wedding 2 I wore a dark red satin cocktail dress, with a cream beaded jackety thing - very short indeed. Looked a bit like a barmaid. Weddings don't seem to be my forte.

Mine was medieval style but very understated,I love it. I was married in Gretna green, though live in ireland, it suited the venue perfectly!

bloody hell mine was .....

we couldn't understand why it had become almsot indecent norkage everywhere

that evening at about 7 my bridesmaid "remembered" that the issue simply was that the dress needed to be hauled upward...we are both dicks it seems

so i got married wearing a white dress in the stylie of a gangsta except round my nips not my hips

I'm getting married in August and I've made part of my dress, it's a pale coffee coloured slip dress with a 3 foot train in a 1920's style, and I'm wearing a beaded 1920's style see through over dress with cream, coffee and black beads, with a long lace edged veil with matching beading, and a tiara and necklace I made in art deco style. I've even made my bouquet of silk flowers,roses and feathers! But I'm saving up to buy some killer irregular choice shoes

that last post is a VG eg of overdescribing ;)

we had chocolate cake and hogged the lot on the day, but unbeknownst to me my dad sneaked off with my bouquet and had the roses stuck in paperweights thus

always makes me think of Han Solo in carbonite

My mum made mine from an American Vogue pattern,in pale gold satin.It was a column style dress with a very plain front,but the back had a criss cross type effect with a train falling from it.It was lovely,and I took it all the way to Las Vegas where we got married.

I kept the flowers for a few days,but we were driving around Arizona and the heat did them no favours.When the car started to smell I chucked them in a dumpster outside a motel in Flagstaff.

3 years later dh and I were in Flagstaff again and I saw the very same motel and dumpster...aah happy memories.

"ohlotster

"It was made by D'zage"

by WHO?
A collection of letters?"

Aren't you sweet. I spose it is a bit of a silly name but I didn't pick the dress because I thought the company sounded ritzy and exotic, just because I er, liked the dress?? But as you're ridiculing most of choices for our special day en masse, I won't take it personally

soz

nice hound

Thanks. Must admit your new name has made me laugh!

I am getting married this year, I am so longing to go and try proper wedding dresses on but am afraid that I will just piss myself at the whole proceedings.

I would just pick all the Jordan type frocks for a giggle, MIL would probably admonish.

I am not having a wedding dress, amd going to go for a knee length dressy day dress. No veil (of cousre) and none of that fascinator crap. Will be v small wedding so am not going to ponce around.

This is a great thread, am having a look at all these frocks and however lovely they look, I am thinking thank christ I don't have to wear the damn things.

Get orf- don't try on a veil then, they can become suddenly very desirable. I remember literally batting an assistant away from my head in one shop as I didn't want one and she kept coming at me with them.. Next shop the woman was so scary I didn't say no when she insisted on plinking one one. That was it, I was hooked!

Gah! Just attempted to try mine on,but I couldn't get it done up.Weirdly it fits over my hips and waist no problems,but won't zip up past my ribs.Damn babies must have expanded my ribcage as well as making me go up a shoesize.

tenacityflux, your dress sounds amazing and I'm always in awe of people who can make their own.

i hada veil not on face obv
short
am a feminist

Mine will be this one (wedding later in the year). Tea length, lace, beading... and silver shoes!

www.ozoneweddings.co.uk/product_info.php?id=261

Sorry, forgot to linkify it

www.ozoneweddings.co.uk/product_info.php?id=261

Furiousgeorge- yep, the ribs flare out by an inch or two during pregnancy and when a baby is born, there is a sudden emptiness which fills in with fat! Hence the binding traditionally done in India, and all the post natal corsets around now. After my births, if it wasn't very stretchy and soft, I wasn't wearing it, hence I haven't dared try my wedding dress on since!

Plain black shortish dress from Monsoon, jade green opaque tights and some nice shoe-boots. (this was about 6 weeks ago).

and I think I might regret the green tights in a few years.

Lotster,thankyou for explaining that.I was very puzzled about it.Strangely enough I tried the dress on after dd2 was born and it still fitted,but until 6weeks ago I was underweight and always had been.I'm assuming that the little weight I have put on recently,went straight into the 'gap'.Why couldn't it have gone on my boobs instead?Why didn't I know about binding?Why do I care as I'm not going to be wearing it again? [hopefully].

This one, made by me and my mum in silk. Given the year (1994) I think it's stood the test of time OK apart from the bow on the bum. The bridesmaids had fabric flowers though