As if you dont already have enough to worry about when planning a wedding
Every Bridal magazine features ads to lose weight, most of them have at least one diet lurking in the pages, and to make matters worse, wedding gowns are NOT sized properly.
As if it isnt already difficult enough to shop in a regular store where the cut can cause a womans clothes to fluctuate between 2-4 sizes, now you try to go find something to make you feel beautiful and special on the biggest day of your life, and you find out your regular-sized frame is a PLUS size in a wedding dress. WTF?
—Wedded whale
This article appears in Feb 12-18, 2009.
But you don’t have to buy into the ‘wedding market.’ Why not reject all that propaganda and buy and wear something in which you’ll feel comfortable? The wedding industry is a scam. In my mind, it has nothing do with love and marriage.
My wife found her wedding dress at Sears. She was breathtaking. Just like Diefenbaby said, don’t buy into all the marketing crap surrounding weddings nowadays. You can easily have a wedding to remember in the $1000’s rather than the $10,000’s
I have a lovely dress, worn once. Would sell it to you without bs propaganda. And what you’ve said about the wedding industry is true, indeed. Unfortunately, love and marriage doesn’t always turn out the way we expect or hope. I wish you all the best in finding your dress and on your wonderful day. If you are interested in a classic/elegant strapless gown, give a shout my way. I no longer have use for it. ( ACtually, I have a few dresses…we had two parts to our ceremony).
Or have someone design and tailor it to fit you perfectly. There a re a lot of design students and grads in this city.
Word to number one. Wedding propaganda is stupid and gross. Check out this site for interesting dress ideas and photos of pretty brides in all sizes.
offbeatbride.com
It’s YOUR DAY as people are wont to say, so you should feel good about yourself for fuck’s sake.
Call me!
/she won’t call
After two marriages, I wouldn’t spend more than $50.
There is one thing that is always true about weddings and that is that the bride always looks beautiful. Please try to enjoy your special day.
The size on the tag is just a number, and “plus sized” is just a label! If you feel the sizes run small, then who cares what the number on the tag is!
Find a dress you fall in love with and don’t worry about what size it says on the tag. 🙂
Young brides – shallowness in motion. Congratulations, you have just opted for working full time, dreary, endless household chores, a lazy spouse and screaming, ungrateful kids. Good luck with that.
TTFN: A little bitter…here she is trying to buy a wedding dress and be happy and you are shitting on her parade…Classy and thats why you were married twice.
Wow, TTFN you really have issues. I think that the OP makes a very valid point. There’s so much media out there for this giant, beautiful wedding and the bride as the centrepeice, which, is quite noble I might say, but there is way too much pressure for that same bride to fit this ultra unrealistic model. Not to mention, all the pressure on the couple planning it. In some cases, the family is worse than the so-called “industry” (in my case, our families got so bad that we actually called off the wedding and got a justice to do it so it would actually be about us).
Bitter? No way. Issues. Nah. Shit disturber? Bingo.
ya, I still think you’re bitter…
and it’s not always the female spouse that’s lazy and doing the endless house-hold chores.
I also often wonder why ladies get all pissed off when they say their size fluctuates 2-4 sizes. You have 4 times the stores to shop in… what’s the problem?
There’s going to be something that fits… just look at the size of the item rather than the number on the label.
It’s a little like golf… you start with your lineup straight… find out which way you’re hooking/slicing it and how much…and adjust accordingly.
I realize most of the women here have stopped reading after I said golf, so I’ll add this….
Guys get the shaft when it comes to clothes.
Why the fuck are they always complaining?
I SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO feel the OP’s pain.
Actually Zzz, we *may* have more stores to shop in but contrary to popular belief, not all women are shopaholics. I like to get in, get the stuff, and get out. (“Wham bam thank you ma’am” for the shopping set, so to speak).
And when I need an outfit for some occasion, I don’t want to spend 4 hours in a mall looking for it. Thank God we’re getting an H&M in Mic Mac Mall this summer – their clothing is cut for curvy girls – it’s one of the only places I can buy off the rack and have 9 out of 10 of things fit without tailoring.
Chin up, girl, rest it on top of those big breasts! Your groom will certainly think you’re beautiful.
We planed to get married twice. Called it off both times due to family. And why did they interfere? Because we did not plan to do the wedding-market traditional and they could not wrap their heads around it. There’s only so many calls, suggestions, or you should invite so and so before you call bullshit.
TTFN, I think I love you.
It’s your wedding, do it your way. Get a dress, tailor it to fit you, enjoy your day. There are many stresses involved in weddings, make it a point to not make this one of them.
Whether she should or should not get married, or whether it’s a traditional wedding or not is besides the point – the issue of buying a wedding dress is what Wedding Whale brought up.
It’s all well and good for people to say “don’t go traditional”, but I’m pretty sure that the bitch wouldn’t have even come up if that was the case. Maybe we should all stay on topic- there was a time when unless people were ranting at Kay and Desi, we could all sort-of manage to do that.
Just sayin’…