Weddingbee Blog

So now that I’ve told you about my dress (!!!), I thought I’d share a few more dresses that didn’t make the cut. I mean, who doesn’t love a little more wedding dress porn? I know I do!

Part 1 brought me to Village Bridals, Macy’s, and David’s Bridal.

Part 2 was a pretty extensive look at the David’s Bridal collection.

The very first dress I tried on at DB was what I like to call the “mullet dress.”

Oh, baby! Are you nervous yet?

Image via 80’s Tees

Anyway, being serious. It’s actually called a high-low hemline, because the front is shorter than the back. This dress looked so freaking cute on the model, and I thought that if I got this dress (for really cheap), I could get a kick ass pair of heels (hiii Louboutins). The front looks real cute, right?

DB CT326

However. Different story from the side view. For my first magic trick, I will turn to the side and show you my thick, ever expanding torso.

Yeah. It’s not that bad, but hive? I’m not that big. And the dress size was definitely right. It just made me look like I weighed 100 pounds more than I already do, and I’m trying to lose weight even now. So…no. This was not going to work.

The next dress I rather liked. It fit me pretty well, but I knew it wasn’t the one. Also…when I previously showed Mr. Foxy a picture of the dress on the model, he said it looked like a nightgown.

DB WG9830

I’ll admit, he did have a point.

I went on try on a few more dresses at DB, which were so bad that they didn’t even warrant pictures. This was one of them:

Oleg Cassini CRL277

I already have a pearish shape, but I seriously looked like a big ol’ pear in this dress. A big, albino pear. No thank you. (Also? Foxy thinks all lace looks like a doily. I wasn’t really letting that rule my decision, but I didn’t want him to just see doilyness on our wedding day.)

Thus ended the David’s Bridal extravaganza.

Onto RK Bridal: I honestly don’t know the majority of the dresses I tried on there, in part because we weren’t allowed to take pictures of me in them and in part because some of them were huge misses. However, the one that was a big contender and competing with my winning Allure dress was this one:

Maggie Sottero style RD1068

I actually had this gem in my dress inspiration section of my wedding binder for a while. Gorgeous. I liked this one about as much as I liked the Demetrios 3137 dress…high up there, but wasn’t getting that warm fuzzy feeling.

And that, my friends, sums up my wedding-dress search! I probably tried on a total of about 25–30 dresses before I found mine. How many dresses did you/have you already tried on?