This is slightly off the topic, but I'm having one hell of a time trying to decide what wedding dress to wear. Want to help point me in the right direction?
First off, you should know that I'm not going to be a traditional bride. For almost my whole life, I've known that I want a dress that either has strong color accents on it, or is itself a color other than white or ivory. If the right dress was more lovely in white or ivory, I'd do it, but for now I'm really feeling like having a dress in color. I think I'd rather look like I was walking down the red carpet than down the aisle.
Also, please note that I will not be wearing a veil, but will have my freshly red longish hair down and curled with stephanotis blossoms dotted in it. (An idea totally ripped from the last scenes of "Wedding Crashers", Isla Fisher's hair.) And of course, most importantly, I'm a zaftig chick. It's hard to pick a dress when they're all shown on non-zaftig models.
Here are my top choices:
This one from Sydney's Closet in Periwinkle or Burgundy. (Note that color swatches on this website are about 1-2 shades darker than they are in person.) Periwinkle, which is close to one of the colors for the wedding, would be a take on a more traditionally light-colored dress but it's still a color and I love love love pretty much any shade of blue. Burgundy is strong and would be a statement. My mother will probably have a hissy, but it's my wedding and I'll be the scarlet woman if I want to.
This one, also from Sydney's Closet, in Capri or Heather. Capri is one of the most beautiful blues I've ever seen. Heather is just plain pretty, and I've always loved shades of purple.
And lastly, this one from Wtoo. No freakin clue what color because I haven't seen the color swatches in person yet.
Post a comment if you've got an opinion!
4 comments:
I vote for "Shine Divine" in periwinkle. I spent over an hour browsing the dresses on these two sites, just to satisfy my own unrequited wedding lust!! Not that I have any plans to marry... but you know how much I dig this stuff!
Marisol! Marisol! In Heather.
This is so exciting!
I vote Marisol. It's the bow and the wrap/diagonals of the torso. I liked the simplicity of Shine.D but the Marisol has just the right amount of definition, shape...
I really liked the Wtoo one, also for the waist and how the layering shows at the bottom. It's got the most going on of the three, but I keep visualizing you looking best in the Marisol.
Oh, sweetheart. No matter what you choose, you'll make a lovely bride, and I'm happy you've chosen color. (As it happens, I was married in black, because it's what I like. But I was also married by a clown on the side of the road in New Hampshire on a Thursday, so my opinion holds little authority.)
Here's what I know: having been a bridesmaid a whole bunch of times, I love it when I get to wear a Watters, Watters & Watters or WToo dress. And I've found that, when I wear shiny things, my ass looks somewhat like my bed looks when the cat and the dog are under the covers playing La Lucha Libre. My hiney no likey the shiny. So I vote for the Watters dress in whatever color you want.
Be well and live happily.
-Lady Dreadnought
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