Beautiful Wedding Gowns For Picture Perfect Weddings

Selecting Your Dream Wedding Gowns

Choosing your dream wedding gowns is one of the most difficult and important task for your wedding.

There are so many different categories to choose from. You name it, they have it. There are couture wedding dresses, high-end designer wedding dresses to bargain wedding gowns. Wedding fashion of the season changes ever so often.

I knew of a friend who chose to custom made two wedding dresses, one for the local ceremony and one for the overseas ceremony and wedding reception. She solved her dilemma of choosing between the two.

There are some practical considerations when choosing that perfect, Cinderalla gown, you may want to ask yourself the following questions when you are doing your wedding planning:

1. How often does one get to wear the wedding gown again?

2. What is your wedding budget? Have you included that designer gown cost in your wedding budget checklist?

3. Does the wedding dress suit the wedding theme?

4. What is your wedding style?

5. Do you know your shape and fittings?

For my own wedding seven years ago, I custom made my wedding gown at a local bridal boutique and bought a Chinese Cheongsam at a Chinese dress designer boutique and two evening gowns at a sale.

I get to wear one of the evening gowns at my company's event two years after my wedding with some alternations and additional accessories sewn on. I get to wear my Chinese Cheongsam for a Chinese theme parties and on Chinese New Year.

Just a liitle change here and there with some new accessories and the "old" gown look new again!

For start, get a stylist to help you. You will need to understand your body shape, what flatters or emphasise your defects for example, if you are short, what will make you look taller? If you have a pear shape body is the bustier top gown suitable for you? What are the types of wedding lingerie, wedding shoes that suits your gown?

Get to try as many gowns as possible and also understand what sort of fabrics looks good on you.

Do you prefer the smooth satin or the Victorian lace? Are you having a beach wedding, then you may want a gown that is made of light, cotton materials.

Pick a style that suit the wedding theme can be your first choice or you can pick the following styles:

1. Elegant, classy and sophisticated

2. Simple

3. Western or Eastern

4. Ethnic

5. Multicultural

Choosing a wedding gown is fun! Pick a day where you and your fianc� or girlfriends can spend a whole day trying out gowns and suits. You should pick a boutique that allows you to try out as many gowns as you like. I loved my "choosing gowns" experience, my "wedding gown designer spent an entire day giving advise and taking tons of gowns of different texture and designs for me to try on. She was so marvellously patient, answering all my questions.

Basic shapes

There are several basic cuts or designs that I was told that suit the different shapes and sizes of the bride to be, if you have or are:

1. Broad shoulders or flabby arms - avoid halterneck or off shoulders gowns

2. Large breasts - avoid bustier or tops that has too many complicated designs, accessories or horizontal stripes

3. Tall - avoid gowns that are too fitting or stripes

4. Short - avoid showing too much legs eg micro minis

The various gown cuttings are:

1. Princess/A-line - Slim fitting with vertical seam from shoulder to hem. This is best for all body types

2. Ball gown - Full skirt with a fitted bodice and waist. This is best for those with pear shape, full figures and tall, slim build

3. Empire gown - Small, scooped bodice, and high waistline with a slender skirt. This is best for thick waists figures

4. Mermaid - Fitted to the knee and then flared. This is best for the tall and slim build

5. Sheath - Narrow body, this design is body hugging - especially the bust, waist and hips. Sexy is the word for this cut. This is best for tall, slim and petite builds.

Colours

I have always loved whites and there are a wide variety of whites and off whites to choose from. I have tried on almost all different kinds of white wedding dresses that was available at the boutique.

I don't have the scientific names of all the whites but these are the few I remembered:

1. Offwhite

2. Creme

3. Yellow white

4. Champagne white

5. Gold white

Texture

The fabrics that are used to make wedding gowns are satin, silk, organza, white tulle,cotton, lace vinyl, microfibre with sweat absorbing materials and the list goes on etc

Do pick a dress that you are totally comfortable in and most importantly it caught his eyes!

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