happygal
Banned
I ordered my wedding dress at the end of August because I was advised that if I didnt I would be run the risk of there being a delay on the normal 8 months and then I wouldnt get time for alterations!!
Or even worse I would run the risk of having to get married in my pyjamas because the dress hadnt arrived at all!!
The girls in the shop were very nice and asked me my size. I was fully aware of the fact that I was going to be about a size bigger, so I told them that I wear a 20 sometimes 22 but I would prob take bigger in a wedding dress.
I tried on dress after dress and then seen this gorgeous model type trying on a dress that I just fell in love with. It was in the same slimming kind of style that I had tryed on but it just Shone and I fell in Love with it so completely When I said the women thats my dress, she said 'we dont have it in your size to try on but it would be equally as slimming as what you have tryed on'. My mum was elated because she had noticed the dress too and thought it was lovely.
Anyways, after they measured me up (which was tres embarrassing because it was a skinny milink that was doing it) they told me I would be a size 26 . (I thought that I would go up one size but not 2 nearly 3)
I told them I was planning to lose weight and that I planned to have at least 4 stone off before the wedding. But the lady said that she wouldnt order it in a smaller size because if she did then that would be the shops fault for ordering a dress that I dont fit. I said that I would go elsewhere and order one as a random pedestrian off the street if she wouldnt order a smaller one. She said that she would order it one size smaller but that was her limit but that alterations to the dress would be no problem and you could alter it down sizes but that you couldnt alter it up. She made me promise that I would lose at least the 1.5stone that is would take for me to shrink a dress size. I said I was determined to lose even more than that.
So I ordered the dress in a size 24 with the thought that it could get it altered to whatever size I was closer to the wedding (as long as that size was smaller).
I was in the shop the other day with one of my bridesmaids who was trying on her dress and told her that I had almost one stone off on the cambridge diet and that the average weight loss is a stone a month so I would most probably be an (everyday wear) 14 by my wedding. She told me that I shouldnt overdo it because my dress cannot be altered any less than a 22 and I was so Mad!!! Especially after being told different. She said that she would double check and come back to me and went to see her boss. She came back to me and said that it could come down to a 20.
My problem is (and I had explained this to her when I bought my dress) that I usually lose most of my weight from the top half of my body first and this is the part the dress will be fitted to. I mean I have been known to have a 14 on top and a 18 at the bottom. But this kind of rounded off (if you excuse the pun) when I put on weight!!
What should I do? Settle for a goal that would leave me size 16/18 and therefore a 20 in the dress or just lose my deposit and order another one??? I dont have the money to order another but its so important that I look gorgeous on my wedding day.
HELP PLEASE!!!
Or even worse I would run the risk of having to get married in my pyjamas because the dress hadnt arrived at all!! The girls in the shop were very nice and asked me my size. I was fully aware of the fact that I was going to be about a size bigger, so I told them that I wear a 20 sometimes 22 but I would prob take bigger in a wedding dress.
I tried on dress after dress and then seen this gorgeous model type trying on a dress that I just fell in love with. It was in the same slimming kind of style that I had tryed on but it just Shone and I fell in Love with it so completely
When I said the women thats my dress, she said 'we dont have it in your size to try on but it would be equally as slimming as what you have tryed on'. My mum was elated because she had noticed the dress too and thought it was lovely.Anyways, after they measured me up (which was tres embarrassing because it was a skinny milink that was doing it) they told me I would be a size 26
. (I thought that I would go up one size but not 2 nearly 3) I told them I was planning to lose weight and that I planned to have at least 4 stone off before the wedding. But the lady said that she wouldnt order it in a smaller size because if she did then that would be the shops fault for ordering a dress that I dont fit. I said that I would go elsewhere and order one as a random pedestrian off the street if she wouldnt order a smaller one. She said that she would order it one size smaller but that was her limit but that alterations to the dress would be no problem and you could alter it down sizes but that you couldnt alter it up. She made me promise that I would lose at least the 1.5stone that is would take for me to shrink a dress size. I said I was determined to lose even more than that.
So I ordered the dress in a size 24 with the thought that it could get it altered to whatever size I was closer to the wedding (as long as that size was smaller).
I was in the shop the other day with one of my bridesmaids who was trying on her dress and told her that I had almost one stone off on the cambridge diet and that the average weight loss is a stone a month so I would most probably be an (everyday wear) 14 by my wedding.
She told me that I shouldnt overdo it because my dress cannot be altered any less than a 22 and I was so Mad!!! Especially after being told different. She said that she would double check and come back to me and went to see her boss. She came back to me and said that it could come down to a 20. My problem is (and I had explained this to her when I bought my dress) that I usually lose most of my weight from the top half of my body first and this is the part the dress will be fitted to.
I mean I have been known to have a 14 on top and a 18 at the bottom. But this kind of rounded off (if you excuse the pun) when I put on weight!!What should I do? Settle for a goal that would leave me size 16/18 and therefore a 20 in the dress or just lose my deposit and order another one??? I dont have the money to order another but its so important that I look gorgeous on my wedding day.
HELP PLEASE!!!
