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I don't know if I love it but I never wanted to take it off. But when my dress came in and I went to try it on I was instantly in love.
I fell in love with mine the second I tried it on for the first time. There was no turning back, I didn't try on any others after that. I knew for sure it was the one.
I really liked all of the dresses I tried on. I knew I wanted a Kenneth Pool and while I tried on a couple non KP dresses, I tried on the whole collection at Saks. I didn't have any crying moment or anything of the sort. I actually did the entire dress shopping process at 2 stores and alone. I picked the KP dress that was in the style I liked that felt the most like my personality. I adored the way it turned out on our wedding day as well.
Honestly, I can understand crying when you put on the first wedding dress you try on because you are so overwhelmed with the OMG it's actually happening, but crying when you find the dress you like just seems odd to me. I also can't really understand with the thousands of wedding dresses that are out there that only 1 would be flattering or look beautiful on a girl.
To me, it's just a dress. It's a special dress that you wear on a very memorable day, but it's still just a dress.
Is there an option for "I loved the first dress I tried on, but it wasn't my dress"?
I loved the first dress I tried on. I also loved the fifth, the sixth, the tenth, and the twelfth. By the time I got to my third boutique, I had stopped looking for "OMG I LOVE THIS". Let's face it; all the dresses I tried on were GORGEOUS. But when I got to my dress, it was different. It wasn't one of those huge, dazzling, amazing designer dresses. It wasn't terribly unique, it wasn't fancy. But you know what? While the others were beautiful dresses, this one made ME feel gorgeous. I bought it. Then I went home and looked at all the other dresses I tried on and I still loved them. But they weren't me. So I marked "I put it on and I loved it", but what I really meant was "I put it on and I loved ME in it".
it was love at first "try-on"... when i went back this saturday to try it on and order it n i loved it even more than before!! and I didnt think that was possible.
Yes, I went shopping solo thinking I wouldnt find anything- but I put my dress on, and started crying. I knew there was no other dress that would match it.
Ditto to so many comments from bees above.
The first dress I put on I loved and cried so thought it was the one and nothing else on this first shopping trip didn't look half as good. Then, came the second trip due to doubts about this first dress and i'm glad I listened to them as then I fell in love, there were no tears just one big massive smile. It was the first dress I fell in love with when I saw it on the internet. I've been back since too to try it on again so I could have 'that feeling' and I loved it even more.
I loved my dress the 1st time but thought there could be something better. Bought 2 more dresses and then bought my original dress.
I tried on my dress, liked it, made my friend and fellow bride try it on, liked it on her better. She bought the sample, decided to go with a different dress, and I tried it back on. I added a black belt the second time and LOVED it. Now it is my dress :)
I wasn't head over heals but the more I look at it and me in it the more I fall in love.
My dress was not in any catologs, as it was a new model for next year and the consultant at the store brought it to me "right off the delivery truck" thinking it would be the perfect dress, and guess what i was in love with it since the first time i put it on!
This only sort of happened to me, which I why I answered "other" in the poll.
I found a dress that I did love (not in a crying, OMG sort of way) but could not see myself paying for. With my consultant's help, I managed to find a sample dress that with significant alterations, and a few additions including straps, is the right dress for me. I paid what I wanted to, which makes me feel good, and I think that the dress is pretty and right for the type of reception (cocktail) we are throwing.
There may have been too much practicality when choosing my dress...but I wasn't working at the time and wanted to be responsible. I let myself be sad for a bit...and then set out to make my dress what I wanted. I'm not naturally an optimist, but this worked for me.
I got teary at my last fitting. It was the first time the dress felt like it was actually MINE. :)
I have found a dress that I think I like, but don't have any pictures of me in it NOR are there good pictures of it on the internet so I'm not sure anymore.
I have 3 more appointments set up (have already gone to 4) and I am still hoping to find "the one".
I'm still not sure I "love" my dress. For me its just an odd emotion to have about a thing. I know it looks great on me and its exactly the look I was going for. Maybe I'll love me in it on my wedding day.
For me, it was more of a feeling of peace with my decision than a gushing, 'can't live without it' feeling. I still haven't gotten my dress back in, though, so maybe that will change.
I knew it. I found it so easily and quickly, I simply couldnt believe that was it! I tried to look at another store and just knew I was wasting my time else where.
I haven't picked a dress yet... though maybe it's one I've already tried on. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to have some sort of exciting feeling that it is The Dress, though... especially since my first reaction every time I look in the mirror is shock that I'm actually wearing a dress.
My best friend didn't have that sort of reaction to anything. She did really, really like one and went with that, but it wasn't a moment of overwhelming joy or tears or anything.
I think part of it is samples being too small, or too large, or somewhat worn out, but it's also dependent on the person and your personality. I hardly ever find clothes I'm super excited to buy, either.
For me it was strange. When I tried my dress on I was in already in a very confused state, so I kind if just put it on and stepped out to see. Before I could really study it, there was all this gasping from those I went shopping with."This is it!" "We are not going anywhere else!" "You are not leaving without this dress!"
I got very overwhelmed, because it was so different from other things I tried on, and what I imagined wearing. But I hadn't gotten a reaction anywhere close to that one before. I left the salon, went back two days later, tried it on, and then I saw what everyone else did. It is in fact a beautiful dress, and the other contenders (though they may have been more what I envisioned) paled in comparison.
I still wouldn't say LOVE, but I had limited time and it was defintely figure flattering and more of a stunner than the others I tried. I am excited about it, and looking forward to wearing it.... but I think I kind of grew to love my dress.
I'm with some of the others on this thread though. There are SO MANY DRESSES and different looks out there... it's impossible I think to be 100% confident that you chose "the one" 'cause in reality, there are probably "the three" or "the ten," especially if your sense of style is diverse...
The consultant hadn't even finished zipping up and hooking the back of my dress and I LOVED it and KNEW it was the one. I had an uncharacteristically emotional reaction to it...goosebumps and nervous excitement and giggles and I teared up a bit, rather than a detached, "Oh, this is really pretty." I'd tried on many dresses on previous shopping trips, and I really liked some of them and thought they'd "work;" and I tried a few more after I found my dress, but all I did was compare them to mine and they seemed so wrong for me after I tried on mine.
But despite that, I recently had some anxiety about my dress and wondered if I'd really gotten the perfect dress. There's so much wrapped up in the whole dress search; there's a lot of self-inflicted pressure, in my opinion, to find "the perfect dress" that it seems rare to NOT have some doubt about it. Add to that the fact that you hope you only get one shot to wear a wedding dress, you typically have to wait months from the time you try on your dress until you actually get it, etc. etc., and there's all kinds of room for doubts to creep in, even if you had a big emotional moment like I did.
For me, I get a lot of validation from having kept all the pictures of all the dresses I tried on. I can flip through those pictures now, and the dresses just seem wrong on me, until I get to the pictures of me in the dress I chose. Then it's like a sigh of relief...it just looks right. :-)
Ok just got pictures of my dress...and the ones before it... I L-O-V-E it again!!!
posting me pics on another thread: http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/dress-2012-the-dress-that-ended-all-shopping
Oh yes. As soon as I put it on I knew; it was about the 10th dress or so that I tried. I didn't cry but I *knew* that it was the perfect dress for me.
I didn't get to try on my dress because the sample was too small!!!!
It was the second dress I tried on - everything after that was just so-so (even ones that were flashier or fancier) :) I didn't order it right away, I still shopped around, but I kept thinking about the one dress and after a month I went back, tried it on again, and made the order. The cost was a little bit more than I what I had anticipated but I looked at other dresses and I just didn't find anything that surpassed how I felt when I tried it on or how it looked to me.
Needless to say, all my ideas of what I thought I wanted in a dress went right out the window when I started trying on dresses. The picture I had in my head were lace and nothing too poofy, more on the goddess-y or a-line type. I was also gunning for a Maggie dress but I tried on a Pronovias and was hooked. It's a traditional princess/ball gown style but not too poofy with simple beading :) Goes to show how much I know and how much of an open-mind you really need to have!
Like others who have posted - it's more about YOU in the dress, not how the dress looks on a hanger.
I thought I had found the dress. I loved it, I was a little emotional about it (although I think that was due to having a larger crowd), and could picture myself getting married in it.
About a week and a half later I went shopping with just FMIL and tried on seriously about 30 dresses. Of those 30, there were 2 serious contenders and I was pretty much out of love with my first dress. I left the store very uncertain about what look I wanted more. I came back 2 days later with FMIL and my parents and tried on the contenders. For 2 days I kept thinking about 1 dress more than the other. When I came out in the first dress they liked it ok enough. When I came out in the 2nd dress and my dad loved it, I knew it was the one.
I would NEVER have chosen this dress for myself. My FMIL pulled it for me and I'm so grateful she did. When I put it on and looked at myself and even when I bought it I didn't get emotional. But I looked at myself and thought I look like a bride. This dress is gorgeous (and a GREAT price to boot). I knew I wouldn't be able to find anything to compare to this dress for this price so I bought it.
I am SOOO excited for my dress to come it and get married in it!
my dress was the first one i tried on, which was a bit of a letdown. it was exactly the dress i've always had in my head, but when i first put it on (the first wedding dress i put on), it was about 10 sizes too big! it was just really hard to see how it would look. once it was pinned, i felt much better. petite brides take note -- don't look until you're pinned in!!!
I didn't even want to try mine on at first. Then, when I did I wasn't sold because the sample I tried was a silver color and I was set on ivory.I went back to try the silver on anyway, because there were literally no pictures of the dress in ivory, but I was almost positive it would be perfect and was ready to just go ahead and order it.When I got to the store with the silver sample, I pulled it quickly and glanced around to make sure there was nothing else I liked. The next dress my hand somehow fell onto was my dress in ivory. Apparently they'd JUST gotten it in about an hour before I arrived and had already had another bride calling to look at it. I pretty much told the saleslady that the other bride could look at it, to see the color (because I totally felt her pain), but it was MY dress! :)I haven't looked at another dress since. Haha
I loved my dress when I saw it hanging on the hanger. I looked at it and told my mom, "This is my dress". It was the first one I tried on and I fell in love! (Which is surprising, cause I'm VERY picky). She made me try on many others, but none were like the first dress I put on.
I will say, though... I fell EVEN MORE in love with it when it was fitted for me. That made a big difference! (And once it was steamed and ready for the big day!)
I didn't even really like my dress when I first tried it on. My panel of judges loved it and as they started pointing out why they loved it I realized I had been focused on minor details of the dress rather than the dress as a whole. I had another dress I LOVED when I first tried it on but after I left the store I kept thinking about my wedding and the dress I loved was no longer the imagine in my head. Every time I pictured my wedding I saw myself in the dress I didn't even really like so I knew it was the one.
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I think my dress is very pretty and looks very nice on me. I don't think I could find anything better. There is something I don't like about every other dress, but I can't find anything I dislike about mine.
BUT I wouldn't say I LOVE it. I'm thinking it was because it was a sample and it was too small. And that once it's my dress and it fits correctly then I'll LOVE it. Why is committing to a dress so hard??? I'm really afraid that I just settled and I'm going to have dress regret. Please tell me I'm not alone...