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I was just thinking the other day while browsing through a wedding magazine.....wedding dress models always look so UNbridal like!!!! They're almost never happy or smiling!! Here's my personal example!! Post yours!!!!!!!!!!
My dress on the model:
My dress on me (this was before the fitting)
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I've noticed that too! Most bridal magazines show the women looking bored or pissed off! haha You look so nice in your gown!
@daisywu Your dress looks great on you and much better with a smiley bride!
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I love that dress! It looks great on you!
I've noticed that too. Some of them look really pissed off. And I've seen some with absolutely BIZARRE hair and veil, they literally look like bird's nests. To me, that detracts from the dress. Happy models would make me think more positive thoughts about the dresses.
I heard once the reason why runway models always look pissed off is that if they smiled the attention would be brought to their face, not the product (clothing). Maybe it's the same thing for print work.
That's true...I get the whole drawing attention thing...but I'm with Liz.smith.....I'd feel happier buying a dress espeically for my wedding day if it were presented in a more positive manner....there are SOME bridal stores (like David's Bridal) that have a more positive image!!
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who notices the models in the bridal magizines. Atleast you look great in your gown ;)
My sister and a few other people commented about my dress. They said they never would have chosen it based on how it looks on the model, but it really came to life on a real person. I think many of the models are straight up and down and don't have the curves needed to really fill out my wedding dress appropriately.
Talking to the many bridal consultants in my extended dress hunt, I heard more than once that it was more challenging for them to find more traditional dresses that looked good on girls built like models. They said a few curves helped fill out the dresses. I didn't worry about the implications and took it as a compliment... Never mind that they might have been implying that I'm *ahem* fluffy!
Here's a photo of me (on the left, obviously) and the model in my dress.
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I'd probably be pissed if someone airbrushed my kidney off too... 
You look great!
I think both of you look great!
I'm kind of amused how a large percentage of the models look like they're 14-16 years old. What 14 year old should be wearing a wedding dress in the first place?
You look SOOOOOOOOO much better than the model!!!!!!! YES the model looks like she's 15!!!!!!!!!!!!
daisywu: I'm getting my dress at Pearls and Lace, too! :)
You look great!
A friend of mine in high school modeled in some bridal magazines. At 17, she said she was the oldest girl on the photo shoot.
I guess it's just the "standard" of beauty thing. Isn't it weird that people are creeped out by child brides, but aspire to look like one? (Or, that's what the magazines tell us we want to look like, rather).
I personally think all the pics of the 'real' brides are much more beautiful!
Here my dress on the model vs me. I'm the one that's at least 60 lbs heavier and nearly a foot shorter than the other, lol.
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I think that often the bride looks better in the dress, as the model is too impossibly thin! and Daisywu, you definitely made a huge difference in my impression of the dress, you looked great! All of the real brides, in my opinion, made the dresses look SO much better. The models just look ridiculous!
If I had seen my dress online at David's Bridal I would have never gone for it. I don't know why, but I don't think it looks that great on the model. I'm really starting to appreciate my curves after this post. 
http://www.davidsbridal.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplayView?storeId=10052&catalogId=10051&categoryId=-49998999¤tIdx=0&subCategory=-49999486%7c-49998999&catentryId=1000185
Awww dorsay I'm so glad you feel that way!! Its SOO important that the bride feels happy about what she looks like especially on her special day!! All you girls look GORGEOUS!!!!
Coleyjean....isn't Pearls and Lace the best??????? I actually live up in Vancouver BC and decided to drive down there to get it because the prices was literally hundreds of dollars in difference!! I just got my first fitting with one of their ladies last week!!!! I hope it'll be ready in 2 weeks so I can pick it up!!!!!!
I love love LOVE how all the real brides look so much more beautiul in their dresses! I thnk it is because us non-models have real bodies - curvy or not-so-curvy - and the glow on the face of the real brides beats any air-brushed model any day!
I totally agree, models are so thin, like barbies, they should have real persons model the wedding dresses.
There's a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold">big difference in mine because the model's dress color happens to be <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic">orange. Yeah. And Shiny. Needless to say, I never would have picked that dress out based on seeing it on the model but I'm glad it looks so much better in white and in person :)
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It's also interesting how much of the detail of the dress is lost in the professional wedding photos as compared to the model photos. I don't want to look like the model, but I wish the details of my dress were more visible in my pictures.
My favorite is when the dress models are not only impossibly airbrushed to the point where they're so thin that there's no WAY they could realistically have all their internal organs, but they're also in such bizarre poses that you can't see the dress at all!! I'll have to dig up some examples, but I know I see it in bridal magazines all the time!
YESSSSSSS When I was deciding on a dress (I was down to 2 dresses!!) I went online to view them again because I wanted to compare and the stores didn't let me take pics cuz it was their policy. One is already posted above...here's the other one...
http://www.mikaellabridal.com/ type in style 1130
This is a Mikaella...it looked BEAUTIFUL on (I would have went with this one if we were going for a church/chapel wedding)....Doesn't it look GROSS in the picture?? I can't even describe how beautiful it was on....this picture (especially the model) is really bad!!!
I never noticed it before, but like daisywu said, the models are never smiling or look happy. I also don't like when the models look like contorshanist in their wedding dresses, doing all kinds of weird bends lol!
I love this post! I am taking a picture of myself in my dress on friday. I will put my two pics then! All you Bees look MUCH better then the models! The dresses come to life much more on us real ladies!
Wow there is definitley a HUGE difference between models and real life brides!!! You can see the GLOW in all these lovely bride-to-beeeeeeeeeees!!!
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And isn't it funny how so many of the models in the magazines are hunched over like someone has punched them in the stomach? What is that??? Maybe a real bride punched them in the stomach. That's why they are not smiling. :)
I love this post! I always wondered why they never looked happy, perhaps its because they are hungry! If I was starving and someone asked me to twist my shoulders, bend my elbow in the opposite direction, and my hair looked like I just woke up I probably wouldnt be smiling either.
haha, agreed! The models look so sickly and weird with their strange body shapes. The dresses are NOT flattering! Not to mention a lot of them have so many underthings on it changes the way the dress flows. I'm not keen on any of the Maggie models I've seen...her dresses accentuate curves SO well, and models simply don't have any. Otherwise, what's the point in a corset back?! They certainly all look "couture" but not happy. Brides should be happy in all their pics! Even models for bridal magazines.
Has anybody noticed that sometimes they look REALLY young, like 15?! I find it strange
You know I was initially excited to read this post because the focus was on how the models aren't smiling and don't seem happy, and so the dresses look better on real brides because we appear so happy. But then it turned into a post bashing thin people... I'm tall and willowy and look about as thin as the models in all those photos. From the comments on this post, my lack of curves is incredibly unattractive and I'm not a "real" bride. I hate being sensitive about this issue, but real brides come in all shapes and sizes ladies. Love your curves because they're beautiful, but please, don't attack those of us who aren't blessed with your natural curves.
Or what about the weird positions they put the models in - so that you cannot see the dress at all. Like "lounging" on a counch, etc. Craziness!
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@loveatfirstsightlover: I don't think anyone here is bashing thin people. I think what we were making light of was the unrealisticness of bridal models in magazine shoots and how when you are truely a bride you radiate natural happiness.
@loveatfirstsightlover: I know how you feel...I'm super thin as well...and NOT tall so it makes it even worse! But like Jennybryde said we're just basically commenting on how magazine bridal ads should really be more realistic. I think especially in the wedding business the ads always tend to be a lot more unnatural. And if you think about it ...it IS weird how they have it that way since this is supposed to be one of the most happiest days for a bride. She should be glowing and happy and completely natrual on that day. Most of the brides in the gown ads just do NOT look that way and I think it's unfortunate when they can market things in such a way where it is completely positive and bubbly and natural. And not to mention....how come there are hardly ever dress models of different nationalities? I'm Chinese and it'd be nice to see asian models in wedding dresses more often. It only makes sense to me to have more variety.
Also I'm really curious to know how ads in this industry will change overtime. A lot of beauty ads these days showcase way more variety in terms of types of people...like Cover Girl!
@go2bee. I completely agree - the "editorial shots" that they use for bridal ads seem silly and should be used for high fashion photos, not photos of wedding dresses. For me, it's the outrageous hair and makeup that most brides wouldn't wear on their wedding day. It would be nice to see a variety of nationalities, body types, etc. Eh, maybe I'm just sensitive about the issue. I did modeling when I was younger and I'm still the same size and when I get the impression that I wouldn't fill out my wedding dress as well as another girl because I lack the curves of a real bride, I get a little defensive. I know that the girls on this board didn't mean anything by it, and I'm glad that most of the focus was on the happiness of the brides.
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