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Ivory or Champaign. MOST white looks horrible on me due to my super fair complexion. There were a couple of white dresses that looked decent because it had good texture, but I still wouldn't consider wearing white.
Its a coloring thing. Some people just glow in diamond white, some just washed out. And sometimes its the design of the dress. I've seen some dresses where the details get lost in the white but look radiant in an ivory or champagne. On the flip side, some dresses in ivory or antique can look dingy or dirty. Each person really needs to try on a couple in each to see if one is much better or worse for their skin. And dont rule any color out by name. I tried on this beautiful glowing ivory dress I loved, and the lady told me it came in white, ivory, and blush. My mother and i literally laughed and said -NO BLUSH! (A pink girl I am not!!) The poor sales woman then sheepishly asked if I didnt like the dress I was wearing. I told her I loved it and thought it was a great ivory. She corrected me and told me it was the blush! There was nothing PINK about it!! I saw the same dress in white - too bright! The same one in ivory - dingy blah. But my glowing ivory (aka Casablanca's blush) was so amazing and was the talk of the wedding.
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I think it depends on the fabric of the gown you're wearing personally! If you have lace, ivory or champagne gives it more of that romantic, vintage feel...(my dress is ivory lace). Most of the time, bright white can turn out to be not so flattering on people...I had a photographer describe it to me as "putting a fluorescent lamp under your face..." Interesting analogy, but I see her point sometimes...ivory can be a little more forgiving, but it also does depend on your skin coloration!
FI wants me to wear white for whatever reason. I personally prefer the ivory because it looks better with my skintone. Mom and I have decided that we need to get diamond white because the white white is not very flattering. It definitely depends on your skintone.
I don't know why but white is so, well white! If I was a younger bride, maybe ivory but I really love the new dresses in champagne and light gold.
I wore stark white! But then again, it looks good on my skin tone and hair color. I've never had a problem wearing white before, but I had to get out in the sun quite a bit to feel like I wasn't washed out!
Mine is ivory, it just went better with my skin tone - I'm pretty fair. The best color on me was the light gold, but I couldn't find a dress style I really loved for my price range that wasn't off-the-rack.
I have been told that if you are more fair skinned to go with ivory. Plus for some reason it makes me less scared of getting it dirty.
If you ask me though go with whatever color you want. But warning: do not follow a trend that in 20 years from now you will look back and ask yourself what you were thinking. Remember to bright blue eyeshadow from middle school? Well you don't want your wedding photos to be another bad ideas from the past.
I think it totally depends on your coloring what looks good on you. I thought that I wanted white-white, but when I tried dresses in that color, they made me look kind of sickly. I'm fair but I have a bit of a golden/peachy undertone in my skin. My dress was ivory and I don't think it looked like "wow, that's an ivory dress". It just looked like a flattering shade of white.
My dress came in both white and ivory. The white was really white and flushed me out. The ivory looks great on my olive skin
My dress came in white or ivory. I thought that the ivory looked almost dirty (like you washed a white t-shirt with some black clothes).
I'm VERY pale and I think that the white looks good on me. I think that the bright white makes my skin look like it has a bit more color.
I'm really pale and all the white dresses just made it worse. Ivory really gave me that very little bit of color needed to make it work. Like many of ladies above me I think its all down to skin color. I've seen some women who look really gorgeous in white. I'm just not one of them
I'm wearing ivory. I have a pretty light skin tone, but my wedding is in the summer and I get quite tan. The ivory just looked better with my skin and hair (chestnut brown).
Technically my dress is "godiva white chocolate." So its ivory! I'm in the very pale group, so it was really flattering on my skin.
There are so many shades of white and ivory I am not even sure what exactly I want! I know I don't want the stark white and I don't want the darker ivory. From my little shopping experience, I think I want "diamond white" (I was told it's not white white and it's lighter than ivory"). I have tried on a couple of champagne dresses and the store clerk said the dress didn't look good on me because I seem washed out (I am Asian) and I didn't like it on me, either.
I'm the opposite of everyone! I am tan, and I have blonde hair and I hated the white white! I felt like it glowed and you didn't see me at all. I was just this huge dress lol plus I kinda looked like Malibu Barbie which isnt what I imagined for my wedding day! I chose Alfred Angelo's diamond white which I think looks like an Ivory.
I tried on tons of ivory dresses, and they looked nice, but the dress I ended up buying was white, and the color looked amazing! I think it really depends on your skin tone/coloring. I am Asian with olive toned skin, and the white just worked really well.
I'm wearing ivory. White just washed me out totally. When I tried on dresses, the salesgirl took one look at me and told me that ivory would look best with my skintone and tried to bring me dresses in that color.
I think I'm wearing ivory...the designer calls it "natural"...whatever that means...white looked really bad on me...oh man I can remember the white on me, it was scary.
My dress is ivory and champagne. I tried on white dresses and they just looked so white :) It didn't enhance anything--I normally love wearing white in the summer time when I get a bit darker--but white wedding dresses just didn't work. They didn't look bad on me, but ivory looked so much better against my brown skin tone.
I think it's a matter of trying both on and seeing what makes you look best. My best friend wore white and she's Latina and brown--but has a lighter skin tone than I do--and she looked awesome.
Originally I ordered my dress in diamond white because I wanted to keep close with tradition and stay as close as possible to white-white. After looking at pictures of real brides, I realized to screw tradition and went with light gold. The dress I tried on was light gold and I fell in love with that colour so the decision to change wasn't difficult.
I did try on several stark white dresses and quite frankly the sight of me in them just seemed soooo unnatural...almost scary. I'm Asian and the light gold just looked better with my skin tone.
I'm dark-skinned, so a bright white dress would not look good on me. Too stark and harsh. The cream tones in an ivory dress play well with the cream undertones in my brown skin. :)
Wow....thanks for all the wonderful advice about color!!! Sounds like most people are going with ivory because it is more flattering which is great to know! My skin tone is kind of in the middle...I have lighter skin, but definitely not pale and I get really dark in the summer (my wedding is in May). I think ivory would be the best choice!
Another ivory dress girl here. And I chose ivory because it looked much better on me than white.
I actually just did a blog post on this!
http://barefootstargazer.blogspot.com/2009/07/i-was-blushing-bride.html
including a quick thought on how your dress affects the photography.
I'm going with Ivory as well...it just looks better with my brown complexion.
DEFINITELY be open to at least trying on the various shades. When shopping for dresses with my mom, we both LOVED every single champagne colored dress on me, no matter the style. We soon realized that it was the color the dress- it just worked so well with my skin tone. [On a side note, the blush tones made me look awful! So it is really trial and error!]
When I picked out my dress it, came in white, diamond white, ivory and LIGHT GOLD. Believe it or not, I picked LIGHT GOLD. Granted, it wasn't anywhere near a gold color. The name scared me quite a bit & I fretted over it during the few months my dress was being made, but once I tried on the final product, I LOVED IT!
And on the day off, my dress definitely didn't look gold, or even champagne colored. It looked like a beautiful shade of white that made my skin tone radiate, which is exactly what you want!
The dress I fell in love with didn't come in ivory, which is the color I wanted. In the end, I picked the dress over the color.
My dress is white white. My skin is light but I do get lightly tanned in the summer (when my wedding will be). The dress complimented my skintone and hair plus I like the very tradtional look.
good luck!
I actually had the opposite experience of sminerva21! I loved my dress but I wanted stark white, because I was afraid ivory would look too "old" or washed-out--but it was only available in ivory so I took a chance. It is the palest shade of ivory and I think it suits my skin tone even more than pure white would have--and it even gets my traditionalist mom's stamp of approval!
Mine is ... antique white. It's not ivory at all, not stark white ... it's a soft beautiful white.
I am fair skinned so white-white was not a good color for me. My dress is called Ivory but its not the yellow-ivory color, its more on the white side. If that makes sense :)
I chose the colour of my dress based on what looked best on me. I found champagne dresses kind of washed me out, as did white white dresses. I ended up loving the colour ivory of the dress I chose...and it worked really well with my skin tone. Just try on one of each and see which you like best on yourself :) Also be aware that ivory by different company's is not necessarily identical! Some are much "yellowier" than others. One of my fave colours of all time is duipioni silk in natural...soo gorgeous!
I had a hard time in the poll, my dress is a champagne slip with ivory lace on top - which color to choose! It really warmed my skin tone, wheras I looked scary in the white white dresses. :)
I am very, very pale, and my skin is pink-toned. After trying on a few dresses, there was no doubt in my mind that I had to go ivory. I looked absolutely Corpse Bride in white.
I ended up buying a white dress, which looked really nice since I currently have a bit of a tan. I'm normally pale with freckles, but my wedding is at the end of May and I'm planning on testing out some spray tan before. I was told that white white looked better on me than an ivory based on my coloring (fair skin, light eyes, dark hair, freckles). I did try on a blush colored dress that also looked fantastic on, color-wise.
Just try different colors on and see where you feel best!
I am somewhat pale, but "olive-y" if that makes sense. White worked best for me. Ivory made me look yellow.
I just look better in ivory. I think it's more flattering on a lot of people.
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Hi Bees!! I was wondering what most of you ladies are wearing in terms of gown colors and what is the benefit of white vs. ivory (or some other color)? Do certain colors look better with certain skin types?
What do you prefer and why??