What is your normal dress size & what is your wedding dress size?

shellsuit

Do they really come up so small??

Just been looking on preloved and can't get over the difference!

Someone is a 10 and wore a 14 and someone else is an 18 and wore a 22!

I've got my dress and with me needing to lose weight anyway, didn't think too much as I got my normal pre pregnancy size (trying to shift the baby weight at the mo!), but now I think I need to rethink and buy something bigger! :eek:

frannyann

I am normally a 6 and my dress is being taken in to about a 10!!!

ETA: Think its dependant on style, I've heard they mostly come up small??

page_e

I'm a 12 and i've bought a size 10. I'm not sure if it's a small 10 i'm just going to slim into it

stef240377

I am usually a 16, my dress was in the sale and the only size availabe was a 24:eek: but the lovely seamstress has taken it in and it fits like a glove, in fact on second fitting had to have a further inch taken off it.

shellsuit

frannyann wrote: »

I am normally a 6 and my dress is being taken in to about a 10!!!

You already know what I think of you :mad::rotfl:

Blimey, so there is a lot of difference isn't there!

page_e wrote: »

I'm a 12 and i've bought a size 10. I'm not sure if it's a small 10 i'm just going to slim into it

Good luck with the slimming!!


By the looks of it, I'm gonna have to shave 6 inches from each side of me to get into my dress :rotfl:

shellsuit

stef240377 wrote: »

I am usually a 16, my dress was in the sale and the only size availabe was a 24:eek: but the lovely seamstress has taken it in and it fits like a glove, in fact on second fitting had to have a further inch taken off it.

How much did you pay to have it altered?

I think I'm looking at either keeping mine or getting another dress and praying it will fit, or getting one which is much much bigger like yourself, and then getting that altered.

SuSu1871

I'm nowhere near looking at dresses yet, but I'm surprised there's such a big difference in sizes. If anything I'd have thought it would go the other way

Fortunately as I've got nearly 2 years to go till I get married, I've got time (and one heck of an incentive!) to slim down from a size 16 to a size 12. I'd be gutted if I put in all those hours, lost all those pounds and ended up having to buy a dress size 18. I know it's only a number, but it's psychological isn't it.

frannyann

shellsuit wrote: »

You already know what I think of you :mad::rotfl:

Yep I do!! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::D

shellsuit

frannyann wrote: »

Yep I do!! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::D

*puts fingers in ears*


La la la la, i'm not listeninggggggg...


:rotfl::rotfl:

shellsuit

SuSu1871 wrote: »

I'm nowhere near looking at dresses yet, but I'm surprised there's such a big difference in sizes. If anything I'd have thought it would go the other way

Fortunately as I've got nearly 2 years to go till I get married, I've got time (and one heck of an incentive!) to slim down from a size 16 to a size 12. I'd be gutted if I put in all those hours, lost all those pounds and ended up having to buy a dress size 18. I know it's only a number, but it's psychological isn't it.

Ah well, I suppose you could use a sharpie pen and scribble the 1 out so that makes the dress a size 8

stef240377

shellsuit wrote: »

How much did you pay to have it altered?

I think I'm looking at either keeping mine or getting another dress and praying it will fit, or getting one which is much much bigger like yourself, and then getting that altered.

As the seamstress is linked to the shop and not independant she has charged me a whopping........wait for it........£30!

That is to take in the waist and remove the loops for the shoulder straps.

I was quite apprehensive about the costs as some stores i had looked in quoted from £100 and it went up more the more you had altered.