Help! In between wedding dress sizes, do i size up or down?

I was advised to ALWAYS size up! You can always have alterations take a dress in...if you get it too small there is only so much material to work with! You dont want the nightmare of the seamstress working her magic taking the dress out to make it larger and still not fitting. This happened to a friend of mine. She looked at the seamstress and asked her what to do. All the seamstress said as she looked at her incredibly sadly was "...diet?" You DONT want that stress! You dont want to HAVE to lose weight for your wedding. Your fiance loves you as you are now! If you lose weight then great and they will take the dress in... but dont make yourself be soooo worried about fitting into your dress and dieting. Make that dress fit you!

Definitely size up. It's better to take in a dress for alterations than to add fabric.

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Great advice!

View Quoted Comment Now we are all going to want to see it! You will have to come back and share!!!! I’m sure it’s beautiful!

I would agree with other people saying size up but also you could ask the bridal shop which measurements are most important for your style dress. For example if by the size chart the only measurement that's closer to the larger size is the hip size and you have a big ol' ball gown that's not hugging your hips it might not matter much. That's what happened in my case.

View Quoted Comment It’s the Galatea dress by Willowby ❤️

Size up! My seamstress says it’s always easier to take in than let out!!

Go up! You can always cut twice but you can't add materials! At least not easily.

Sorry y'all not sure why the pics aren't loading

View Quoted Comment Omg! I tried that one on! It’s gorgeous! You are going to rock it! I love all the little details. The velvet bands. The lace. Stunning!

I agree with everyone else, always size up.

Trying one last time and if the pic doesn’t load I’ll give up haha

Always size up. It is way easier to take in a dress and make it smaller then to make it bigger.

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Thanks girl!! I went to my dress shop specifically to try on this exact dress. I tried on a couple others first, then this one and I knew it was the one

That dress is gorgeous! I say size up, but that's just me. Good luck!

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Thank you so much! I think that is probably what I'm going to do.

Always size up. You don’t need the stress of a dress not fitting.

My dress shop said I was right an exact 8, however even though I was exclty a size, they still advised to order a 10 just in case. They can always go down but it is very hard to go up.

The dress store employees will ALWAYS say to size up and I think that is the wisest decision for most people! I was already in the process of losing weight and didn't want to make alterations even more expensive than they will already be so I actually ordered one size down and that dress is too big for me now. I think they say to size up because a lot of brides say they will lose weight and don't because of the stress of it all lol. Better to be safe I'd say. I'm happy my decision didn't come back to bite me later on

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Agreed- size up! It's much easier to take in a dress than it is to let it out.