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CatBones
Expert July 2020

Wedding dress didn't fit- do-over?

CatBones, on August 7, 2016 at 4:58 PM

Posted in Wedding Attire 25

I went to a wedding this weekend. Got to the church a little early because I'm paranoid of being late to the ceremony starting, and the first thing I see are bridesmaids trying to hide from the bride and some older relatives looking concerned. I'm a nosy bish so I ditched my fella and went over to...

I went to a wedding this weekend. Got to the church a little early because I'm paranoid of being late to the ceremony starting, and the first thing I see are bridesmaids trying to hide from the bride and some older relatives looking concerned. I'm a nosy bish so I ditched my fella and went over to see what was wrong. Apparently the bride did not fit in her dress and was having a meltdown.

She bought it ages ago in a too small size because she thought it would give her the motivation to lose weight. This woman is in her mid-thirties, and has fluctuated between sizes 14-18 since she was a teenager. But she was determined to be "thin and pretty" for her big day. I have no idea what size she is now or what size she bought but her plans of losing weight did not work and she was apparently taking it out on everyone who was in her getting ready room.

The wedding happened, but... clearly the dress did not fit her.

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  • Lara
    Master July 2015
    Lara ·
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    I'm sorry but this is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. First of all, why on earth would she wear that dress? There have been brides on here buy dresses the week of their wedding because the original dress didn't fit. And second, you don't get a re-do. Grow up.

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  • K.M.
    Master September 2018
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    It is definitely the bride's fault and I'm not arguing against that but I just have to wonder why no one told her to be realistic and get a dress that fit. I clearly don't know her personality and I realize some people just don't listen but someone else had to know what was going on.

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  • annakay511
    Master July 2015
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    That bride is literally deranged.

    Honestly, if she hadn't made such a big deal out of it, people probably wouldn't have noticed as much as they did.

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  • CatBones
    Expert July 2020
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    I have no idea when the dress was bought or about fittings. I'm assuming people tried to politely tell her about the dress? I clicked "unfollow" on FB because she made so many wedding posts I just didn't want to keep up with it anymore. Like literally it was a few weeks of multiple posts a day about it ("eating a salad for lunch because I'm engaged!") and I just couldn't. As soon as she got engaged she said she was going to start drinking smoothies and go running every single, but clearly that didn't work out so well.

    She's the daughter of one of my mom's friends so I've known her for a long time but don't really *know* her. She's fairly stubborn and definitely needs things to go her way. I mentioned the husband is calm. He really is and just goes along with whatever which is a nice compliment to her needing to be in charge of things all the time.

    The bridal party was huge- twelve people on her side and ten on his plus three flower girls. I have no idea how the logistics of this being done again would even work.

    Everyone was trying to be nice and ignore the dress and compliment her hair and the decor and the food, and I really only heard people talking about it before the ceremony and after the wedding was over completely. No one wanted to be rude but it was obvious.

    I remember in 6th grade I had a birthday party at a roller rink. They accidentally gave us the room theme room, my cake was vanilla instead of chocolate, and another girl wore the same headband as me. I thought my life was over and pitched a fit, I even went out to the parking lot for like a half hour and no one knew where I was. I sobbed. I look back at that and cringe but also remind myself I was a kid, and at the time it WAS mortifying. I'm aware a wedding has higher emotions but I'd really like to think I've grown as a person and would handle this better.

    Overall this was a weird thing to be a part of, it felt so avoidable. And I'm going to make sure to not buy my dress too early and to go to all of my fittings. And maybe have a backup option just in case...

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  • Nancy Taussig
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    Do you think she might be pregnant? At one of my ceremonies, the bride's zipper wouldn't stay up because she was pregnant and her boobs suddenly (in 1 week) grew so much. Fortunately, I had a long white scarf with me and we camouflaged the gap.

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