Strapless wedding dresses-- yea or nay?

[HazelNutCoffee]

@Cat_Whisperer

That is a beautiful dress (and you’re not so bad yourself, either, wink wink).

@Yllaria

Yes. You and the dress look wonderful.

@nearwildheaven

Gorgeous!

Thanks. I was really happy with the dress! It was comfortable AND I felt pretty in it - win-win.

Going with a seamstress is something I’d recommend to any bride who is having difficulty finding what they want in a reasonable price range. The dresses that I fell in love with were all in the 2000-4000 USD price range. Getting it made only cost a fraction of that.

Little Bird I think you look lovely in your dress.

[SaharaTea]

@SpoilerVirgin

I thought of this thread when I saw pictures of Kelly Clarkson’s wedding dress. She got married yesterday in a beautiful dress. I was trying to figure out what I liked so much about it – it’s the long lace sleeves.

I frickin’ love that dress. So much so that I wish I could get married again just so I could copy it.

[Find_Friends]

@kushiel

Reminds me of this pic! Poor bridesmaids.

@Zombie Whisperer

Oh dear! That looks so wrong!

@Muffin

That looks so right!

Agreed!

And it reminds ME of an overheard remark by a mother at a reception wedding about a previous wedding reception she had attended.

Her little daughter: :eek: Mommy, that woman has nothing on!

[Nava]

@corkboard

Like so many other things, it depends on the person and the dress. One can look positively modest in a strapless dress, or one can look completely inappropriate.

… in a dress that covers everything up to the chin (anything of the “mermaid” type for example).

[Tante_Dillie]

@HazelNutCoffee

I decided to get my dress made because all I could find around here were poofy, strapless concoctions that made me look short and fat. I wanted something that I felt comfortable in, and that I could walk around in without too much trouble. I was really happy with what the seamstress came up with. I showed her a photo of a dress I liked and she made one very similar to it, with a few adjustments. Here’s a photo of me wearing the dress.

Hazel, you are gorgeous! And so is your dress.

[Cartooniverse]

@SerafinaPekala

Were those her engagement gift?

This made me laugh so hard that people on the bus are staring at me.

" Hey Ma, so do I go with the lace around the nippleautages, or is that tacky ? "

:eek:

[Cartooniverse]

@HazelNutCoffee

I decided to get my dress made because all I could find around here were poofy, strapless concoctions that made me look short and fat. I wanted something that I felt comfortable in, and that I could walk around in without too much trouble. I was really happy with what the seamstress came up with. I showed her a photo of a dress I liked and she made one very similar to it, with a few adjustments. Here’s a photo of me wearing the dress.

The glow on your face was nicely enhanced by the dress on your corpus. What a happy bride !!!

[Baker]

@alphaboi867

if anything it symbolized that the bride’s father was rich enough to buy her a widely impractical dress which couldn’t even be cleaned & she’d never wear again.

I’m told that although my paternal grandmother wore white she and my grandfather were poor(he was a young minister) She altered the dress so she could wear it as a Sunday dress, and it was considered too “showy” by the hard headed German Lutherans of her husbands’ congregation. Judgemental older women were the worst.

[Find_Friends]

Gown-less wedding straps? …

I mean–

:o