Bride’s Perspective: 5 Tips for Bridal dress Shopping

1. Go to a fancy boutique for your first experience. At least for your first bridal dress shopping trip (if not all of them!; ), make an appointment at a fancy boutique. Having a private room, pretty couches to take a seat on, sparkling wine to drink, and a wedding planning consultant to help run and grab you 2015 wedding dresses with bling and give advice will help make your first shopping experience being amazing and special. It’s your Scoop Court Train Tulle A Line Wedding Dress, and some might say the most important fashion choice of your life! Even if you fully mean to go bargain looking for being married dress at a sample sale or overstock retailer, having that first boutique experience will help you figure out what styles and designers you like. And it’s fun!

 

2. Bring 1-3 close family members/friends.

For your first time trying on dresses, try to limit the number of people you bring with you to a small number of your nearest family or friends. Too many opinions may start to get overwhelming, and isn’t super helpful. For my first time dress shopping, I brought my mom, sibling, and soon-to-be mother-in-law. 3. Put on styles you don’t expect you'll like.

My secret bridal dress Pinterest board was filled with fitted, trumpet dresses. The wedding planning consultant asked me if i wanted to put on an A-line dress. I agreed (because why not? )#), but expected that the fit wouldn’t be complementing on me and that I wouldn’t like the style. I tried on a couple, and absolutely chop down fond of one of them (photo above). I was so surprised by how much I loved it! It was definitely a different feel than the other dresses I had been trying on—this one was more romantic and soft, while the others were a bit more glam. While I wound up choosing a different dress in the end, the meaning of the story is, most probably to trying on different styles!

 4. Sleep on it. It’s okay to allow consultant know at the end of your dress consultation that you’re not ready to create a final decision that day—in fact, you should probably plan on not making your decision day-of your first time trying on dresses. I wound up trying on dresses at a couple other places after my first time trying on dresses, and there was one dress from the first boutique that we couldn’t stop thinking about. I literally imagined it! When i saw that none of the other dresses I tried on in comparison to the one I kept thinking about, I knew that was clothing for me. 5. Go with your gut. While it’s fun to show friends and family pictures of the dresses you’re deciding between, keep in mind that everyone has their own opinions, but what matters is that you love clothing you choose. If you have two beautiful dresses that you’re deciding between, some people will like dress #1, and some will like dress #2. At the end of the day, you’ll have to decide which dress is the most you.