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Also the wedding is outside in the South, so making them wear a jacket is just evil
Do you have a picture of the dress so we can get a better idea? Maybe a seamstress can sew together the sides of the sweetheart or something?
http://www.dessy.com/dresses/bridesmaid/6590/
that's a link to the dress. My largest BM is a C-cup, so we're not talking about majorly booby girls here either...
I gotta say, anything larger than a B cup and sweetheart necklines are going to be a problem...
Rather having the dress altered, could they wear strapless minimizer bras?
Well, I'm a DD/E and I prefer sweetheart b/c i actually find them to be the most flattering/LESS boobylicious thing I could be wearing. If they wear the dress with the appropriate bra underneath, there shouldn't really be a problem. My last strapless was something that would show me off more, but I recently got a longline bra and i find that it shows off my breasts less and holds them in place versus pushing them up more.
I think good undergarments are the way to go.
And, sometimes, you can't just hide big boobs--you can make the problem worse by making her look so unflattering all you notice is "wow that dress looks bad!" so if you can support them properly and cover her enough, she'll be ok. She may have to wear the dress up a little higher than she'd prefer--which i've done before. Which looks silly because the sash/waist part is up higher, but oh well, what can you do?!
maybe you could have them alter it with some cloth or lace to hide the boobs a little.
artbee beat to what I was going to say. I think that if you talked to a seamstress they should be able to put a privacy panel and/or build up some lace or other fabric behind the sweetheart where the cleavage is. Also, the gown may not be fitting her right. Have her talk to a seamstress to see if the top is too small for her. The gown may just need to be altered to fit better.
Maybe they could add some kind of modesty panel to the dresses to help cover up the cleavage. Good undergarments could really help too.
as a fellow big boobied girl, i second and third and fourth GOOD UNDERGARMENTS. usually if someone is wearing a crappy bra with strapless stuff, they will get that "hooker trashy" look. get a good bra/corset and they will be able to rock it without looking like streetwalkers :)
sweetheart is usually the MOST flattering for big boobies though. so im guessing either the size is wrong or they arent wearing the wrong undergarments. :) good luck!!!
Isn't it annoying that these things never look risque on the models?! I think it's because the models usually have no boobage because they are so skinny! I like the idea of a lae modesty piece!
Oh My, as a very large breasted woman, I can tell that dress would show mine to the world! I am sorry this is happening. Is it too late to return them? I don't mean to be discouraging. As others said, sometimes you just can't hide big ones. At my sisters wedding, she had straps added so at least the strapless dresses were held up as high as possible for the large-breasted ladies.
Hum. Maybe it has to do with the plunge of the "v"? My opinion is taken from my MOH, who tends to be rather unequivocal about these things. So perhaps I should've qualified my answer. 
this would bother me too. No bride wants the attention on the boobs. I'm a DD and i dont like to show mine. I would recomend buying a shall in that same material and adding material to the front of the chest area. or you could even have someone make the dresses knee length and take the bottom material to the top part. And maybe even add some straps to the dress. I think a think halter strap would probably cover the sides a little. I recommend no bra also(if possible) When i wear a bra they look up and huge. When i dont..they look smaller. So maybe you can try that.
Heres an example...i tried a dress on that showed major boobs so i added this cloth material to cover a little. Im sure you can find different types of cloth. This cloth is from DB
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I'm going to second (or third, or fourth) what a lot of the ladies said, and recommend that you fashion a straight lace to go under the sweetheart neckline. I've done it with a dress that I have; it covers the girls up, but doesn't completely take away from the beautiful sweetheart neckline that you were obviously going for.
I had a similar problem at my sister's wedding. Since I'm short though, the dress was too long so my seamstress took a bit from the bottom and made a little panel that covered the cleavage. She did an amazing job and everyone said they actually liked my dress better than the ones that hadn't been altered.
I'd talk to a seamstress. They'd know if the problem is needing different undergarments, adjusting sizes a bit or adding a modesty panel. Whichever way you go, it will be fine!
oooh LOVE I really like how that looks.
This is a weird situation...my BM's aren't that chesty (biggest is a C). And I'm a C and MY dress is a sweetheart and is totally not scandalous...it must just be the way it's cut--it seems like on my dress it comes up higher
I'm a C cup, and I made sure to wear good undergarments whenever I've worn a sweetheart neckline like that one. It showed just enough to look very flattering. Often I wore a long-line bra that held them securely in place. They weren't pushed up and jiggling around in everyone's faces.
Hummm ... my girls got a Dessy dress with a sweetheart neckline just like that and none of them had an issue with it. I'm a DD and also bought the same dress for myself in a pretty pattern and it doesn't show my cleavage at all!! It sounds to me like an undergarmet issue (or they bought their dresses too small).
Is the issue too much cleavage in the middle, or does the entire bust panel sit too low? If it's the entire area, perhaps the dresses are just too small.
If it's the cleavage in the middle, I agree that a lace panel in the middle would make it a lot more modest. Maggie Sottero's Grace Lynette has a really low cut part in the middle but it's still quite modest because of the lace covering it.
I think that a layer of lace or chiffon would provide sheer coverage - but since you chose the dress without them trying it on, I would cover the cost of the alteration (I would be miffed if I was a bridesmaid, the bride picked a dress, then didn't like the way it looks and expected me to cover alterations to make it more appealing to them).
Yep, I go with the undergarments solution, especially when your maids don't actually have giant boobies. That said, maybe the addition of some ribbon or lace in a co-ordinating colour could be a good way to make the dresses more interesting too.
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So...my bridesmaids got their dresses in and they are WAY low cut. I am not cool with the cleave. Both of them live out of town, so I had to pick a dress online and have them get it at a local store. Online, the dress did not look scandalous at all. On my BMs, however...eek!
I am not really sure what to do at this point. The dresses were like $200, so I'm not making them get a different one. Can alterations places do anything to fix a strapless sweetheart neckline that shows major boob???