What did your wedding dress look like?

[SkaterGrrrrl]

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Mine was a pre-WW2 second hand vintage dress from a crazy little shop behind Victoria station. It was ivory silk and the most beautiful item of clothing I have ever seen. I had to live off salad and ryvita for nearly a year in order to get into it. It cost me £60!

Mine was a long-sleeved ivory heavy silk dress in a kind of tudor style, just off the top of the arms and with an embroidered cross design on the front. Love it so much!

After searching everywhere for a medieval type gown that I really wanted to have the chance to wear for a day I saw this on Ebay with 20 mins to go and got it for £200 when it was a designer dress that originally cost £1600, which I would never have been able to buy.

Mine's on my profile too now.

am I the only one to collect the dress a week before the wedding and realise I actually really disliked it. Was so bored of the idea of it by then and it didn't magically turn me into Audrey Hepburn. Got married about 9 yrs ago so the dawn of the ' champagne strapless gown'.

Big mistake for my body shape. Boobs became big shelf. Would not choose it again. Would go for something v different. Still have the lovely DH though.

Pic on my profile. It's officially an evening gown but was on a mannequin when I was trying on, and once I'd tried it that was it. Never in a million years thought I'd wear a pink dress to get married in but fell in love with this. Gave me a phenomenal cleavage too

I found mine all alone on a designer rack at Debenhams. Silk/cotton sundress. It was £40 and a size 20. Had it altered, best bargain ever.

Ooh I wonder if anyone else had the same one as it was pretty striking and you would recognise it from the description... (not read rest of thread yet...)

Beautiful ivory silk strapless A-line dress with small train. With bright pink stargazer lilies handpainted on it - 2 on the bodice and 3 to one side at the bottom of the dress. Simple yet striking - I absolutely loved it! Wish I could wear it again in fact!!!!

Just started reading thread and it is exactly like letthemeatcake's!!! Great taste lady!!

And lotster love your description of how you ended up with a veil - I was exactly like that too 'err I said NO take it away!!!!' 3 mins later 'ooh don't i look like a princess bride give it to me now!'

I tried on veils till my sister told me gently that I looked like I'd lost a fight with a net curtain

she was right and I owe her

This is mine. Crushed organza, v-neck, pleated over the bust and tummy. I had a panel of lace added across my boobs because otherwise they were a bit too in your face. I LOVED it. Got married in October 2008. It was by Romantica of Devon.

I love looking at wedding dresses

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Yes the princess Jedi mind trick from the veil is extraordinary!

Another divider I think is shoes, lots of people wear sandals now but I spose I'm of the more traditional close toed fir a wedding school- mine were pointy slingback kitten heels as I'm quite tall. Unfortunately as my wedding was on a searingly hot July day, I didn't realise they would gave me blisters the size of 50p pieces on the sole of each foot!!

(p.s. Weirdly I stopped halfway through writing this post to nip outside for a brief snowball fight with the bloke.. London snow is here at last)

Mine was from Ghost - £120 in the sale at Liberty. Pic on profile for a limited time!

mines on my profile and I loved it on first sight. Would love to wear it all the time if I could have sleeves added to it.

Augusta Jones Kenzie

Pics here

Still makes my heart flutter...

Purple silk straight Monsoon number. Secondhand from Ebay for £10. With fuschia pink jacket (Zara), purple DM mary jane shoes and topped off with bright red short curly hair. Not everyone's taste, granted, but almost ex-H liked it as did I.

As I was 4 months pregnant with no waist and two stone overweight, I couldn't find a traditional wedding dress that looked ok. In the end, quite by accident, I found a grecian style empire line pleated ivory dress in Debenhams which fitted bumpy bits very well. I really liked it and got loads of compliments. I dressed it up with gold jewellery, a beautiful gold stole lent to me by my SIL, gold flip-flops (swollen feet!) and really went for the whole grecian look!

I never told anyone how budget the dress was.
(45 quid)

Strapless ivory, very traditional, train...killer piece was the veil which was 3m long and edged with pearls, crystals and diamante. But it was also impractical and I took it off after the ceremony only replacing it for cake cutting and speeches! It looked fab though and I wish I'd kept it on longer.

Currently being modelled by me at the top of the front page of here as only got married 2 weeks ago.

And I get to wear it again next summer so I'll know what to differently which will include taking the whole getting ready thing more seriously (there are some hilarious shots because I refused to take things seriously and pose properly) and keeping my veil on.

Or even here

Mine looked like this. Am about to bin or burn it.

Got married in 1997 when the styles were simple and people were ante the 'merangue'.

I notice now that it's all strapless corsets.

Anyway, it was an empire line narrow dress that I bought in a sale. Put on about 1lb, dress so narrow that it then didn't fit, so had another one made in exactly the same style.

So, no pictures (pre-digital age) but empire line, with little buttons down the back and short sleeves. It suited my boyish, lack of breasts figure.

Still fits, although my tummy bulges in it!

I got married in 2002. My Dress was by Margaret Lee. It was a one piece strapless and corseted affair with a cathedral train and was cream. It had russet and gold leaves embroidered on the bust line and train and had a very Elizabethan style shrug jacket too. I loved it. I still have it as well. It cost £900 which was way over my budget by my parents bought it in the end. Having said that, my Mum's MOB outfit cost £750!

Mine was made for me by a friend and so fitted perfectly!

I got married in 1994 so it was the dying days of the merienge (can\t spell it) trend - no frills or garnishes, but very full skirt, fitted bodice and shawl collar. Cream watered silk. Cream silk shoes with swirly design on them, silk headband with veil, red roses and carnations in boquet (was married between Christmas and New Year). Bridesmaid was in the same dress (also made by friend) but 3/4 length and in deep red velvet.

I think it is all deeply mid-1990s now - but that's when we got married - nary a shoulder in sight back then!

I designed my own; silk, ivory, ultra-plain (in 1995, so the days of super embellishment). Gathered, but slimmish skirt. The lady that made it said it was the smallest gathered skirt she had ever made (I lived in terror of being a meringue).
Still looks good in the pics. Mind you I was 22 so would have looked good in a John Lewis carrier bag.

my wedding dress My headscarf was different though, I was just wearing a white one rather than the traditional Kabyl(Algerian Berber) one. The dress also had a lot of colourful embroidery at the front, all the way to the bottom of it.