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not at all! i wanted simple. dropped waist. strapless. plain. no sequins or other do-dads on the dress. i looked everywhere and didn't find what i was looking for. i ended up with a reem acra [hello do-dads!] and loved, loved it!
My dress is actually something like I wanted it to be. Well sorta lol. Getting married on the beach i didn't want something too crazy, something plain was ideal. All the plain "beachy" dresses I tried on made me feel like I was just trying on a pretty white dress, not my wedding dress. The first time i tried on dresses I wouldn't even look at anything that had beading or was more formal. The second time, my mom talked me into trying on some with beading, and I ended up leaning towards all lace with all over beading. I went a couple of other places, but I still couldn't find what I wanted. The last time I tried on dresses, I was just trying on whatever. After you try on over 100 dresses you need to broaden your horizons a little. I tried on a dress that was hideous on the model in the catalog and ended up falling completely in love with it. Its a halter (which i wanted nothing to do with) with ruching and a band around the waste (whcih i also wanted nothing to do with).
I knew I wanted something relatively simple, and that's pretty much what I got. it does have a few sparkles and a little lace, but it's plain for the most part!
Not really, but I guess kinda.
Not at all. I wanted my dress a little more blingy and the one I ended up with was more simple.
I wanted a totally plain and simple dress, but maybe mermaid or trumpet style. I ended up falling in love with a straight lace dress and then a Jackie-O type classic satin dress that just reminds me of something so elegant and timeless. I can't believe I parted with that lace gown and picked the other! So no, not at all!
My dress was nothing like I thought it would be, but it was the hit of the party!! I loved it.
Pretty close. I knew I wanted something with lots of detailing and puffy. In the end, I got what I was looking for originally but with more detailing and puffier than I thought I would go for.
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I didn't have a specific idea of what I wanted, but I don't think I ended up with it, if that makes sense. I thought I had to have straps, and didn't like lace. So...of course I ended up with a strapless dress, covered in lace!
It was funny because I ended up buying two dresses because I really fell in love with the second dress I put on. But ironically, when I got the second dress back, it didn't look the same as what I expected so I will be wearing the dress I initially chose the first time around.
I was fairly sure I wanted a v-neck, but that's as far as I'd gotten! I swoon over lovely lacey gowns and tend to pass over the taffeta/pouffy/super traditional type things. In the end, I got an Alfred Angelo - v-neck, yes, but also taffeta and with a much bigger skirt and train than I'd imagined! And I had the same reaction as you - this dress made me feel like a BRIDE, and that's what sold it to me in the end. (That, and when I took my mother to look at it, she got teary.) I didn't even know I wanted to feel like a bride!
Nope! I wanted simple, no beading, no strapless, no ruffles. Bwah hah hah hah! Can you say antithesis?!
I wanted a really tight one and end up making a puffy bottom dress. That was just the start!! I'm always thinking about re-doing something, lucky for me I still have plenty of time to play with it :)
Before I went dress shopping i made a binder of maybe 10-15 dresses I liked to show the sales consultant what I was looking for. The dress I chose was the first one in my binder and the first one I tried on (although I did try on almost 50 others over a few weeks).
I thought I wanted something completely different from what I ended up buying. I was looking for not-strapless, no beading/lace/detailing, white-white. I bought strapless with lace and beading in ivory. I think I just didn't know what looked good on me until I started looking. I loved the look of something else on paper, but it just never felt good on.
Oh I thought I'd end up with a very simple, no lace, trumpet dress with clean lines and no frills. When I went shopping, I tried on every dress that the consultant pulled out and every dress I thought looked different from what I've already tried on. I ended up with an A-line, lacy top with layered ruffles on the skirt. I love it!
I went in wanting a big poofy princess dress and ended up with something a lot simpler. But it exceeds expectations!
I wasn't really sure what I wanted and I tried on everything from poofy to simple to sparkly to lacy. I ended up with a strapless, very "bridal" couture gown. It's perfect!
I am having so much trouble with this. I wanted something simple and flowing but when I put those dresses on they just dont feel right. But I feel like that is what I HAVE to choose. But really like I like a little unique flare!
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My dress isn't anything what I thought it would be. Before trying on I wanted no strapless, simple, and a structured fabric like tafeta. I ended up with a strapless dress, with beading and chiffon. Nothing like I thought I would get!
My dress is absolutely what I wanted--I was pretty single-minded when shopping. Tea-length, simple, flouncy. I tried on other ones just for fun, though, and if we were having a different kind of wedding, one of the more elaborate ones would have made me happy too!
This is going to sound bizarre...but my fiance picked out my dress before we were engaged. We were walking by a store in Portland, OR and he saw this dress in a window and told me to try it on. A few months later we were engaged and a few month after that I returned to Portland to get the dress. My mom hated it, which was heart-breaking, but I loved it and I knew my fiance loved it. I didn't have a "dress vision" per se, but I definitely didn't expect my fiance to pick out for me. I have my fitting in a couple weeks and I can't wait to see it again! 
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Kind of. I liked the lacey, flowy, romantic dresses and I liked the short, tea lenghth vintage looking dresses. So I went shopping with both in mind and would try on either style. I ended up with a strapless, tea-length, ivory dress with a little lace and beading.
I wanted something romantic, flowy with some sort of sleeve and no poofy. That's exactly what I got, even though I tried on some pretty fantastic anti-theses of my dress.
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I wasn't sure how to word the title, but basically the dress I bought isn't the dress I thought I would buy when I went shopping.
I wanted something very simple - but when I put them on, I didn't feel like a bride. It just felt like...a dress.
I tried on one with bling and a bigger skirt and...wow. I felt like a bride! I would have sworn my dress would be simply and lacy, and instead it is taffeta with bling and a big skirt. And it is perfect for me.
Did your dress turn out to be what you expected?
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