Anyone else come away with the opposite dress than they were planning?!

Yep, me too! I was going to have sleeves and definitely not be strapless...and the one I fell for? Strapless! I think it's important to be open minded about trying on all sorts of dresses, no matter what you have in mind, as you never know what might actually look amazing on!

I was going to have a trumpet/mermaid dress to show off my great a$$ ?. I came away with a A-line ballgown with lace sleeves. Not at all what I thought I wanted but I love my dress

Me too - I thought I'll go for lace and straight or fit and flare shape but now I'm thorn between two satin A line gowns

What I've learnt is that the dress can look COMPLETLEY different on the picture than on you. The pictures used by designers are photoshopped, the models are dead thin and wearing stilettoes. There were many dresses I loved online but hated on me, and opposite - some I wouldn't look twice at online but loved wearing them

Absolutely this! Searching online I had my heart set on satin, no fuss, no/small train. My dress couldn’t be more different, lots of lace which I thought I’d hate, huge long train... I lovely it so much though!

*Love! Was so excited thinking of it that I didn’t proofread

Yep, my dress has 3 elements I said I absolutely didn't want, plunge neckline, illusion front and tulle skirt. But it is a lace fit and flare so not entirely different in the end!

I went to a specific bridal store to try on the dress I had fallen in love with online only to be disappointed, not with how it looked on me so much as the fabric being totally different from what it looked like in the designer's pictures. The lace on my dress is like I thought the lace on the "dream" dress would be and I think that's one of the reasons I love it so much. Its also from the bridal salon's own range so I wouldn't have found it anywhere else.

You see this happen on “Say Yes to the Dress” all the time! I have a very specific idea too (see pic) but not tried anything on yet as not getting married until July next year. And I’m prepared for this to totally not suit me!

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Yes, my daughter watches ‘say yes to the dress’ and said the same, that it happens all the time!

Originally I’d looked at your dress, as was all for tea length, but then I decided that it’s going to be my ‘one’ day to go all out and wear something amazing, so decided to go full length and full on! It’s really pretty though, so see how you feel when you try it on xxx

Yes! I went in with an idea of wanting lace and mermaid style.


Tried on 5, couldn’t move in a mermaid, so ended up with an a-line! ?

Yup thought I had planned for boob tube style fell in love with Stella York Sophia dress but loved the train on Stella York Taryn, so got the best of two dresses and had the train amended on Sophia to look similar

Yep, went with a dress I dismissed as looking cheap, it has all the things I didn't want but I love it and it's comfortable too!