Was finding your wedding dress a WOW moment?

I didn't cry right away. I got slightly teary when we started talking about it being my dress. I still tried on probably 4-5 more dresses just to be 1000% sure, but I just knew it was the one.

It wasn't a super emotional experience. I just thought it was really pretty and flattering.

No.. I really liked it and am very happy with it. But I never had the OMG tears moment.

I saw my dress at an expo that I was going to with my best friend. We had already agreed to go for her wedding idea searching and right before the expo I got engaged so the tide turned and I was on the prowl for all wedding ideas. When we first walked in all you saw was all the beautiful gowns, at this point I had already seen a lot of the gowns with my best friend while helping her pick out her wedding dress so I had a good idea of what I wanted. We quickly skimmed through the racks and I did not see anything in my size that was worth my time. We continued on through the expo. A little later on I passed by the dresses again and there was this one lonely dress hanging up on the other side that made me stop in my tracks I quickly took all the pictures of it, until the bride that was purchasing the dress started staring at me oddly. After the expo I called around Phoenix and found a bridal salon that carried the dress and was able to try it on, fell even more in love with it! I did not cry, but I felt so happy in that dress. I did try on many many more, for fun and you know just to make sure it was THE DRESS and I always went back and compared every dress to that first dress. That is how I knew it was THE DRESS.

PS sorry for the long story

Mine was the first dress I tried on. I was like "Damn this is gorgeous", but I didn't want to pick it right away. So I tried on another 10 or so, but kept comparing them all to the first one. I tried it on again at the end and knew it wasn't going to get any better than that. No tears or anything, just decided it was the most beautiful dress ever.

I tried on so many and kept thinking that maybe that whole "OMG This is the one" thing wasn't real and girls over dramatized it. I also couldn't imagine how some girls spend thousands of dollars after only thinking about it for 15 minutes. I thought I was a reasonable person, that when I found the dress I would sleep on it before deciding to buy.

Then I found my dress, knew it was the one, and dropped $1,700 on it. $700 over budget. But I don't regret it.

I feel like I'm such a highly emotional person, I would have bet that I was going to cry when I found my dress. But when I found it, I was like "I can't stop comparing it with others, which obviously means this is my dress. Let's wrap it up and pay." Seriously. No tears, no over excitement that I expected. Sure I was so excited to find the dress that I wanted and I didn't want to take it off, but I thought I would be like one of those girls on SYTTD and be jumping up and down screaming that I found the dress. Nope, none of that.

i had an OMG moment especially since i went with my best friend, her expression said it all

I tried on a bunch of dresses most of them were gorgeous (because wedding dresses are generally gorgeous lol). But never got "the feeling." Then i went to a sample sale and almost didn't pick up the dress but my aunt said give it a try so I did. I ended up really liking two so I tried both on with a veil and was perfectly calm, collected and undecided. Then I turned to the mirror, did a little dance move and tears started coming out of no where lol. It caught me off guard but after the tears I knew it had to be the one. It was over the budget I gave myself but under the budget my mom gave me so it was a done deal!

I put it on and I finally felt like me. The other dresses I tried were either too plain or too fancy where I just didn't feel like me. When I tried my dress on, it was not over the top, but still really elegant. So I felt like me, but really really pretty.

I actually never tried on any dress in a store. I bought my dress "pre-owned" (though, new and never worn) by a bride who got dress regret and decided to sell online.

I will say, though, that the "wow" experience is totally over-rated. The first two pictures are of me in the dress when it first arrived-- I was definitely NOT wowed-- the dress is gorgeous, but when I first put it on, the bust was ENORMOUS and drooped like crazy. The skirt was way too long, and just looked raggedy and sloppy at the hemline. The dress doesn't have a lot of coverage on the arms and back, and I felt like I looked chubby. The skirt was REALLY poofy, and I felt like a Southern Belle putting it on. . .of course a dress consultant would have been able to pin it and make it look a bit more flattering, but still, there is a good chance I would not have bought this dress if I had been convinced I needed a "Wow" reaction.

The last picture is my dress after alterations (and some weight training)-- a HUGE difference, and I really believe it was the perfect dress for me, even though I never felt like I had to find the "perfect dress".

I'd say somewhere in between for me. I started out shopping at David's bridal and had brought in about 15 styles I saw online that I liked. They had about 2 of them so I was already discouraged. And then the woman who was working with me kept bringing over stuff that was totally opposite of the styles I liked. And David's bridal helps more than one person at a time so she didn't even help me in and out of the dresses and by time I had tried on the ones she had given me, I couldn't find her again so I was just sitting there waiting for her and I only had a 1.5 hour appt. At Alfred Angelo the experience was so different and I think I would have liked any dress at that point. I tried on a couple I really liked but when I tried on my dress I just knew. I didn't cry or anything but I just felt so pretty, it was in my price range, and I didn't want to shop anymore lol.

Did not have an emotional reaction at all, which is odd for me because I'm such an emotional person naturally. I still don't have that feeling even after all my fittings and seeing myself in my dress. Actually when I went for my very first fitting I had forgotten what my dress looked like. Maybe on my wedding day - in 9 days!!!! - i'll feel a little something towards my dress but right now I'm just meh. It's a pretty dress, I think it's just me and how much i hate wearing dresses and showing any skin. I wanted sleeves and they added them but in the last fitting i had them take them off they looked bad. So definitely no wow moment for me, although my mom did so I take that as a sign that it's good

I was debating between a dress I liked that was cheaper, and a dress I had loved online that I thought was beautiful but not as flattering on me as I had hoped. The consultant grabbed the back and pulled it in as hard as she could (it was a 16 and I'm a street size 4-6), and while I didn't cry, it definitely made me say wow.

@Barbara, I was not around for your BAM and never saw pictures of you in your dress until now. Wow! You look stunning!!!!

EDIT: Sorry, just had to say that. I can't actually contribute to this thread, I haven't found my dress yet. Going shopping 10/10, so fingers crossed.

Apparently not because I bought a new dress online 2 days before my wedding. As soon as I tried THAT dress on though, I was soooo happy! Like magic

In between.

There have been a lot of moments where I thought I would have those "HOLY SHIT!!" movie type moments but I haven't, lol. Not that I'm not an emotional person because I truly am and find joy in the smallest of things but from things like my proposal, dress, venue, etc. I wasn't having freak outs. I guess deep down I knew all of this was going to happen with FH so I haven't totally been surprised? Haha no idea.

ETA: I did have a bit of an emotional moment when I found that while trying on dresses I didn't look completely awful in all of the dresses that I tried on like I had anticipated though.

I didn't cry. I went back a second time before deciding between 2 dresses. In my head, I was 90% certain I wanted this one gown. It was comfortable and fun (which is my personality). Then when I went back, I changed my mind. I did that one the first time, but I loved it more the second time. I felt more like a bride in the second dress.

I didn't have any kind of special moment. I knew what I wanted, I knew what my budget was, and I went in fairly sure what dress I would be choosing. Got a dress that I live that will look beautiful on my wedding day. I've seen a lot of dresses that I like as much or more, but my budget was pretty in stone.

I did not expect to find my dress the first time I went shopping. My mom and I arrived early to the appointment and wandered around the shop pulling some dresses while we waited for the consultant.

The first dress I pulled was one I saw online that I thought was beautiful. It was the 3rd dress the consultant had me try on, and I liked it but did not have that WOW moment. I told her I wanted to think about it, but keep trying on other dresses. About 15 dresses later the consultant decided to add a veil (didn't do this with any other dresses) and I liked how it looked with the dress I had on. My mom chose a different veil, which I LOVED - and then I said I wanted to put dress #3 back on with the veil my mom picked. When I stood on the platform and turned around to look in the mirror I burst into tears...so the veil made all the difference for my WOW moment.

I had the same reaction when I picked up my dress and tried it on again. I know it is the one, and it is more beautiful than I remembered.