Wedding Dress Shopping - dress sizes

The best thing to do is to call a few of the boutiques you are interested in visiting, tell them your size and ask if they have many dresses in that size (or one up/down from there).

When I tried on dresses, I was happy to try something on that was 'just' too small to do up, because I could still get a good idea of how it would look. Same with something that was a bit baggy. But when they got so small that I couldn't even get into them properly or so big that I could have fitted two of me into the same dress, I didn't think there was much point, since when something's that much of a wrong size, it's not really possible to get an idea of what the right size would look like.

Hey, I'm currently size 14 and was dreading trying on dresses as thought nothing would fit. The shops are lovely and don't make you feel like a dress doesn't fit. They tend to have dresses in smaller sizes and some in larger sizes. I tried on several larger sizes and some were too big so they tightened them and others they had to put a panel in to make it look better. Try some boutiques but also try other places like wed2b. But honestly it isn't as bad as you may think, they are used to people of all shapes and sizes trying on dresses.