Dressing for the Season

The dress is beautiful and definitely wear it for the ceremony. You loved it initially so why not! There’s the option to get a 2nd dress for the reception if it turns out to be extremely hot. It doesn’t have to be a wedding dress (which can be costly to add another dress). There are many white cocktail dresses that will look stunning and fit for the weather. I bought a white dress on Lulus.com for my reception dress and didn’t spend nearly what my wedding dress cost

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That's true! I suppose I could have a back up dress just in case I feel like it's literally way too hot and I'm going to pass out or something! I've been quite nervous about our first dance in that dress because it's so big with a huge long train, so that would likewise be solved. The thing about the highlands is, once the sun goes down it gets cool very quickly, so the evening is likely to be fine compared to the day.

I guess I just worry I'll look stupid in a gown with sleeves, since it's pretty uncommon in Australia to begin with, and even more ridiculous in the middle of our summer

I'm wearing an essentially a spaghetti strap dress in the end of October. I'm from Illinois, Chicago suburbs and it can be literally anything weather wise. Two years ago it snowed on Halloween (I'm getting married October 30th so day before Halloween), it usually rains and is cold and windy. Sometimes it can be nice and 70 degrees F. So its really a crap shoot. I'm hoping to have my ceremony outside so if its cold I can deal for 15 mins or so. But if its raining, or snowing ceremony will be indoors.

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That does make me feel better. There are so many things I never thought I'd have to consider with this wedding, due to stupid covid changing plans! And there's not really much point in trying to make other accommodations because who knows if our Feb wedding will go ahead? It might get postponed too, and then I'd need the sleeves!

I’m wearing a strapless dress in November, and I’m from Connecticut so that’s late fall for us. It’s been warm the past few years on our date, but we’ve gotten snow that early before so really it could be anything. I’m just going to suck it up and deal because the dress I got is everything I wanted!

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Haha, I think I'll need to take that approach too, and just pray we don't end up with some outrageously hot day. That said.. at my sister's wedding, you couldn't tell in the photos how hot and windy it was just by looking at them... so hopefully it's okay and will all work out in the end.

You should ask your seamstress/designer to make your sleeves removable so you have the option to take them off if it is a very hot day. It is a gorgeous gown.

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Aww thank you! I thought she'd only pin them on (and that potentially they would be removable) for my next fitting, but during our virtual discussion, she said they're sewn now - she did this before we had to postpone, so it would have been fine at the time. But now, I would either need to to ask her to remove them (at more cost) or leave them as-is. I haven't actually got a quote yet for all the work she's doing but there's quite a lot so I'm not expecting it to be cheap. I suppose I could always ask her (after I've tried the dress on, closer to the time) how much it would cost and make the decision from there.