Weddingbee Blog

I’m a big girl, so I got a big dress. Yes, I need to improve my physical health, but not at the expense of my mental health. Weddings are stressful enough without starving yourself on top of it. Do a YouTube search for fainting brides if you need any more encouragement.

I hate that the industry is all about giving us “helpful tips” about losing weight and such before the wedding. Now is NOT the time for me to have something else to worry about! I did not look forward to dress shopping, either. Too many eyes on me, in too little clothing! I’m on the heavier side, so I’ve been working out and trying to eat a bit better, but I’ve decided that this is me - no sense driving myself nuts to look like a different person on the wedding day! Cheers to you, Miss Kiwi!

The industry is ridiculous. I’m a street size 8, but my dress was ordered in an 18 ,mostly to accomodate my boobs compliments- of mom’s side of the family.

Well, about a month ago, Kleinfeld’s (where I got my dress) called and left me a message that Good Morning America wanted to do a story on plus sized brides and wanted to know if I would be interested in being interviewed. Oh, and according to the message left on my vm, I was considered “plus size” because my dress was “ordered above a size 10″. How ridiculous is that! Especially since bridal sizes are so much smaller than street sizes in the first place and bridal places order the dress bigger to begin with so there is room to play around with. It’s so sad that our society has such a warped perception of what size a woman SHOULD BE be if she’s a bride.

Wow Maria, that’s ridiculous. I think wedding dresses are the epitome of vanity sizing- one day I hope for uniform sizing, or even better, shopping by actual measurements, like men’s pants.

I may have commented before in another post on this, but I HATED dress shopping. So much so that I bought a dress where I liked the designer (he was really nice) and thought the dress could be made into something I love. Who could tell how they looked since NOTHING CLOSED?!

I’m a “street” size 8, who has ballooned (for me) to a large 10 and I may be creeping into the next size if I can’t figure out the issue. I think my body actually got used to my old asthma meds and now doesn’t know what to do. My boobs are– well, let’s just say they’re real, not Fake, I swear.

Nothing zipped in the stores past my waist, maybe. It’s not that I was really up for the “let’s go find a pretty dress”, it’s so no me, but, I would have liked to at least find a few that maybe I didn’t like, but could actually try on fully to make that decision.

The worst though is friends who don’t get it– “Every dress they had to pull closed in the back with all this extra material. ” I love the Bee…

I’m jumping on this band wagon. Dress shopping was by far the most stressful part of planning for me. The embarrassment of having someone hold together the size 10 dress in the back as we walked tandem into a room full of mirrors and size 2 brides, to check myself out was horrific (TO PUT IT MILDLY). Bascially, I bought the first dress that looked halfway decent just to get the hell out of there. And I’m ashamed to say I whispered to the sales girl, “I’m a size 18.” and turned a million shades of red when she announced loudly, “so we’ll start with size 22s” Barf!!! In my opionion, the dress industy would do better if they oversized rather than undersized- it really would be better for business. I know a different size number wouldn’t change the true size of the dress, but hey, what girl wouldn’t be excited to try on dresses two sizes smaller than she normally wore? And just to let you know, I funked up my size 20 dress and I’m going to love wearing it, every minute that it’s on this big, beautiful body of mine!

It seems there is a concensus of brides who want dresses in at least double-digit sizes, so what’s the issue in making the dresses available? Seems like a no-brainer from a business perspective.

Also, it seems obvious to me that a store would do better to have large sample sizes because everyone can fit into them.

And salespeople use vanity to boost sales. If I were the salesperson, I’d rather have to say, “Oh, looks like you will need a size 16, but our sample only comes in a 20, so we’ll clip the back so you can see how it would look” than “Well, if you can get it up halfway, and lean forward and hold the bodice up in the front — That’s what it might look like on you.”

Maria, I hope you do the Good Morning America interview, so you can say “I wear a size 8, and according to the wedding gown industry, I’m a plus size.” It reminds me of a female Army officer I knew, who was over her weight limit because of her ridiculously gigantic muscles: according to the Army, she was fat.

good for you. and yeah, i’ll share my fries with chris farley in a wig