Love the dress! Really pretty and sparkly, and very flattering. Speaking as someone who got married having not bothered to lose any weight, take it from me that it is a fight worth fighting your absolute hardest - I loved my dress and felt great on the day but when I got my photos back, I cried and cried and cried. I never believed how huge my arms looked until I saw them in the photos. The dress had the most amazing train which is what I'd always wanted, very long and beautifully embroidered, so I'd requested lots of back shots of it - big mistake. All I could see when looking at the photos, instead of the beauty of the dress, was a huge backside, muffin top and fat back. This is what everyone else would have been able to see when I was standing at the top of the church getting married.
This year I am being a bridesmaid for my very bestest friend, we have been friends our whole lives and she's like the other half of me, we have an unbreakable bond. She was my bridesmaid too. Sadly, I can't display any of the photos of us together at the wedding, as I've know split from my husband. This makes me even more determined that in the photos of me and my best friend from her wedding, I am going to look a million dollars. I'm fighting this with all that I've got at the moment because I just want to look the very best I can, for her, but also for myself, to avenge my own horrible wedding photos. I ruined my own and I'm not ruining anyone elses! Added to this, she is a size 10 and her sister is a size 8!
I'm just telling you all this because even though I have been through lots of ups and downs with my weight battle, and even tho I do feel as if I should be perhaps a full stone down by now instead of 'just' half, and I wish I'd started this time last year, I know, because of those awful wedding photos of my own, that if you want this hard enough, you will acheive it. Just keep the focus on, do whatever you can to get this weight off and you will have your reward in around August when you get your pictures back.
Please believe in yourself!