Advice when trying on different sizes to your own.*edited title*

This is why I didnt want to even go shopping till I had lost a lot more weight, but I am struggling so going next weekend. I just know that I will be in the opposite situation - anything I try on that fits my size 24 now will look totally different in the size 14 I want to be when I get married, and if I try something on that I might be confident enough to wear as a size 14, it will look naff inc my current size 24!

I never had to worry about that as I never intended to lose weight before the wedding:-) He fell for me at this size so ill stay there happily. Guess we are all different arnt we :-)

Like you say it may work in the opposite way as well!

Sorry to here you didn't like it. Is there anything the shop can do to make it better? Can the neckline be changed?

Afraid not, if they tried to change the neckline it would pull up the rest of the dress, and it wouldnt fit on the bust properly. Plus I havent told them to be honest haha

This isn't meant to sound patronizing, but have you asked them if they can do anything about it or are you just assuming? You'd be really surprised at what they can do. there was a thread the other day about how someone had their dress changed because they didn't like it and the difference was amazing! I'll try to find yo the link.

Do you have a flash!

Take a look at this.....

https://www.hitched.co.uk/chat/forums/t/266174.aspx

That's not patronizing at all, I did ask her about the neckline at the first fitting because I knew it felt too low, she said then she could pull it up, but not too much because otherwise you loose the back. My other issue is how much heavier it feels that the one I tried on, but that isn't really avoidable as there is so much more materiel in a dress 4 sizes bigger. The logic off this escaped me till my first fitting! Can't flash as I'm on the iPad but stick mori Lee 6606 into google and a lot of pictures come up. Not much more then can do, though think it might be adaptable afterwards into a nice knee length dress!

Wow! that is a stunner! Hope you grow to love it again.

This sort of thing is worrying me already!

I have ME/Chronic Fatigue syndrome on the severe scale and my weight yoyo's up and down depending on my health at the time and how mobile I am. I can go months being housebound and the weight piles on but on my better periods when I can get out once or twice a week it drops off again!

I know from reading posts on here dresses can be altered in amazing ways, but as the OP says, it can make a dress look totally different!

Yeah hope so too, I pick it up next Tuesday, so hopefully I will have a flash off it.

Unfortunately for the 'larger brides' most shops don't really understand these things - it's always better to go to a shop that specialises in bigger sizes. We used Whyte Weddings in Worthing which specialise in sizes 16-32.

Here's my lovely wife in her dress. Proper size, not poured in to something 6 sizes too small!

AJ this wasn't so much due to that as almost all the other dresses were closer to my size, its just this was the only sample they had of this dress. They had a good selection off sizes, it's why I went to them:-)

I know this sounds odd but i'm sure you'll find a way to love your dress if it can't be altered. it sounds as though you still like your dresss and i'm sure on the day yoou will feel stunning!

Can I also make the point that it is not just larger ladies that have this problem. The sample of my dress was a size 16 and I needed a size 4. Yes I could get into all the samples I tried on but they never sat right on me at all due to how much they needed pulling in.

I had the same problem with the dress I had for my first wedding, when they pinned me into the sample that was way to big the waist sat on my waist, but when it came in my size it was a dropped waist, more on my hips and I hated the way it looked.

queenofspain's point is valid to everyone, make sure you have seen a picture of the dress on a model/real bride, wearing the size that fits her.

As soulmates is right I've edited the title slightly:-)

I wasn't having a dig at you! But thanks, and I do really love your dress x

Can i just advise that you speak to the shop? you really don't know what they can do - there may be places they can lessen the amount of material so as to make it lighter. i couldn't get over what the shop managed to do to my dress - things that I just didn't dream were possible (that's mine that someone posted a link too). I also assumed that things they suggested would ruin the way the dress sat (like removing the straps, adding a fish tail etc) but they didn't. what impressed me most though was that they wanted to make sure that i got the feeling about the dress and once they appreciated my concerns, they considered all sorts of things to make it better for me.

It can't hurt to ask and you never know, they might have some ideas.

When I was looking for pictures of your dress I came across this ad for it,

I can't get the pic of the front to show!

Maybe the back can be redesigned to allow the front to sit how you want it to.

It's ok soulmates I really didn't think you were having a go:-) you had a valid point I hadn't thought off:-)

Edit as I've just seen the picture, that's exactly how I liked the neckline when I tried the dress on!!