Quick, Throw Me Some Beads!
July 20th, 2007 @ 2:00 pm by Mrs. Snow Pea
Has anyone had any experience with these bras? I don’t need a whole lot of lift but I do need the bra to stay on through the day. I don’t want to confuse my wedding day with mardi gras! This one looks low cut enough for my wedding gown. Other strapless bras are cut too high like a tube top. Any other suggestions?
Now? I Feel Like A Bride?
July 16th, 2007 @ 4:47 pm by Mrs. Corn
So, I have a confession to make…one that I am slightly embarrassed to mention because my mom reads my posts on Weddingbee; but in the interest of being honest about the process of wedding planning, I feel it is important to share: I just found the yummiest thing to wear on our honeymoon:
It never dawned on me that I would want something like this; I have seen other brides receive things like this at their showers and thought that they were nice, but not really appropriate for me since Mr. Corn and I have been living together for almost a year.
You Don’t Want To Know What’s Going On Under Here. Trust Me.
July 11th, 2007 @ 1:55 pm by Mrs. Strawberry
I had visions of romantic lace lingerie for my wedding day. Something soft and feminine with a vintage touch. I fell in love with the romance collection from Spoylt when Weddingbee was giving away some of their goods. But now that I have stopped to think–I realize that satin and lace will do nothing for my protruding gut and thunder thighs. Nay.
Many bees have blogged about the magical and mystical powers of Spanx. They will definitely do the trick. However, I’d rather Mr. Strawberry not be confronted with my stuffed sausage appearance on our first night as husband and wife. I mean you really have to work to get into those babies. Not exactly a turn on.
What’s a girl to do? Any words of advice?
A Little Heft For My Friends
June 21st, 2007 @ 4:40 pm by Mrs. Kiwi
My wedding dress will be the second strapless dress I’ve ever worn. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a little worried about the bra situation since I’m a D/DD cup (depending on the bra), and these babies need some help staying in place–I don’t think cups sewn into the dress will work. Since the top of my dress is majorly beaded, I don’t think I have to worry about lines from boning, so that is one thing I don’t need to think about. There are a few ideas I have for the dress: corsets, merry widows, bustiers, longline bras…the list goes on. I like the idea of a corset, since it enables you to cinch it however close you want it, despite making you gasp for breath!
Here are my top choices for wedding day underthings.
Goddess Smooth Bridal Strapless Merry Widow:
Forget Losing Weight For the Wedding…I Found This…
June 9th, 2007 @ 4:58 pm by Mrs. Corn
My mom came to visit a couple of weekends ago and one of our goals for the weekend was to purchase my under-the-dress attire. We headed to a wonderful store in Boston, Lady Grace. The kind of place where there are sales people who actually know what they are doing, can measure you and make ‘the girls’ do things you never knew they were capable of doing.
I will admit, I was mightily depressed while we were in there. Turns out my size is a LOT bigger than I wanted it to be. Everything made my fat rolls stick out, and I was very concerned that the boning in the strapless bra that we finally settled on would show through my dress (that doesn’t have a lot of beading on it and is A line). Well, it turns out the girls at Lady Grace had a surprise for me. I thought that all I was going to get was the strapless bra and however long it was, was as long as any suck-me-in I was going to get. But after I decided on a bra, the saleswoman told her apprentice to ‘go get the Spanx’.
Sexy Little Bridal Things
April 10th, 2007 @ 12:28 pm by Mrs. Strawberry
Male Spanx?
April 9th, 2007 @ 3:07 pm by Mrs. Lemon
Yes, male body shapers do exist. At least, that’s what I found out from a google search after Mr. Lemon raised the question last night. I was talking about the lengths I had gone to hide my pudge for our engagement pictures, and he began wondering if anyone had started to make a male version of SPANX. In theory I figured that there had to be multiple stores here in LA that carried them due to the body-conscious population, but the idea of them existing just never crossed my mind before.
So my search uncovered quite a few sites that sold male body shapers, and in fact it’s the latest rage in Japan right now. Underwear company Triumph International Japan released a “long girdle” and a “hip hugger” girdle to sell on a trial basis last month, and both sold out within weeks.
So this begs the eternal poll question…
Suck It In
March 19th, 2007 @ 12:38 pm by Mrs. Kiwi
Okay guys, I need some of your help. I’m looking for a corset to wear under my strapless wedding dress. Dress is here:
Big Girls Don’t Cry
February 25th, 2007 @ 12:10 pm by Mrs. Pearl
One of the most frustrating parts of being a plus-sized bride is that I see all these wonderful ideas that smaller brides have, but know that it will be hard to find the clothing item in my size (if at all possible). Granted, I really don’t have any desire to wear a garter, but it would be great to wear those cute ruffle butt panties or the terrycloth wraps that other people wear.
No worries, friends. 
I have found sites that have the aforementioned items.
Hipsandcurves.com sells ruffle butt panties (albeit not in blue) that fit anywhere from 1X-3X. The panties are either white or red and are called “Rhumba panties.”
Two sites that have the terrycloth wraps are: Embroideree and Plussizebathwraps.
Now I’ll get to wear the ruffly panties I <3 and get myself and my bridesmaids the terrycloth wraps. The trouble I go through for a couple of pictures!
Anyone out there have other sources for ruffle butt panties for not tiny girls?
Spanx
February 14th, 2007 @ 12:40 pm by Mrs. Blueberry
I am currently sitting in front of Mr. Blueberry’s computer in ripped jeans (chasing preschoolers around all day tends to destroy jeans), a flour-covered t-shirt and…Spanx.
I ordered the Higher Power, in a size A, and here’s what I have to say:
The good:
~They do nip in my waist a bit.
~They do smooth my stomach, when I’m standing up.
The bad:
~When I sit down, they create a stomach roll that most definitely does *not* exist sans Spanx!
~The leg openings create a seamy line that’s visible even through my jeans (of course, I do have flabby legs)
~They come nowhere near the bottom of my boobs. Stretched to the max, they go just above my waist.
~They do smooth my butt, but don’t hide cellulite or VPL–and they seem to significantly reduce the size of my ghetto booty–aka one of my favorite assets.
~That crotch opening is weird.
