<p>I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks the strapless wedding dress fad is boring.<br>
I read the wedding announcements (with bridal pics) in our newspaper every Sunday and see nothing but strapless with the occassional halter or spaghetti strap thrown in.<br>
Wis is right. Strapless is no attractive on everyone. </p>
<p>My boss spent a lot of money on her D’s wedding a couple of years ago. She told me how beautiful the dress was. I finally saw it when she brought in the wedding pics. It was a plain strapless straight top boring affair. The bride was barely five feet tall and had short pudgy arms. I could have thought of several different styles that would have been more attractive.</p>
<p>It’s like any trend; some people are determined to follow it, no matter how bad it looks on them. I was born very busty and had no business wearing tube tops in my youth. But I did. :o</p>
<p>Being sick for the last 10 days I have been catching old reruns in the morning. I am assuming they are old since the consultants look younger. I love the show. My 22 yr old also does. The 15 yr doesn’t get the show. My H can’t believe what people spend on a dress that they are going to wear for only one day.
I wish they would run a marathon this week. I need something to watch.</p>
<p>When my DIL was still my son’s fiance, we used to watch the show together long-distance. We’d call each other and comment on the dresses/drama…it was just about my favorite part of each week.</p>
<p>My DIL had a beautiful, very simple dress…not from Kleinfeld’s.</p>
<p>Seconding the anti-strapless sentiment! I’ve been to so many weddings where the bride is constantly tugging up the front of her dress during the reception. It looks so awkward and unattractive. And honestly, a strapless flatters very few figures. My pet peeve is the lumps of flesh that get pushed to the front of the armpits, even on girls who have perfectly fine figures. I’ve even seen that look on Hollywood red carpets. I hope Ivanka Trump’s sleeved wedding dress, though selected for religious reasons, starts a trend.</p>
<p>Finally! A thread I’m excited about! I thought I was alone! Greatest show on TV! Yes, the Pnina fairy hooker episode where the bride insisted on removing the expensive lace on a $20K dress. I think about what this kid’s life must have been like leading up to that moment. I bought my dress at Kleinfeld’s 19 yrs ago. I told them–I’m not spending over a thousand. They brought me several dresses, I picked one (with sleeves) and loved it. The thought of spending $10k and above on a dress makes me break into a sweat. Also, isnt it amazing how the consultants go into the stock room and seem to know every dress? On hangars, facing sideways, they all look like identical big poofffs!</p>
<p>And aren’t the strapless brides who get married in the dead of winter freezing?
If I had to walk around my house this time of year wearing a strapless top, I’d be a shivering miserable mess. Even though the heat was on, our cavernous church sanctuary was freezing last Sunday. Most every woman there( inlcuding me) and quite a few men kept on their coats for the entire service. </p>
<p>I guess I’m really showing my age to think about comfort before fashion (or passion):)</p>
<p>I love that show, too- but if H is also home I have stopped turning it on since he gives me so much grief (albeit good natured)!</p>
<p>Two family wedding dress stories- my MIL was so excited about her oldest son’s engagement (to me!) 28 years ago that she took me to the bridal shop at, I think, Bloomindale’s in NYC, near where they lived. She had seen some Japanese designer dress in a bridal magazine she wanted me in, and I tried it on there. It was stunning, and fit like a glove- long sleeved, mandarin-type collar, made of an exquisite light WOOL with some elegant beading, and it simply draped without any under-puffy tuile. It was a wow- but cost $1500, so I had to pass it up. It was the only dress I ever tried on. I wound up finding a sweet elderly dress maker who made me a similar style dress for $300- it was good enough, even my MIL was OK with it!</p>
<p>The other story is my mother’s, in the early 1950s. Her wedding to my father was completely planned, dress bought and all. About two months before the wedding, and just before the invitations went out, her next-in-line of 4 sisters becomes pregnant, unmarried with her steady BF’s child. This aunt was the exact same size as my mother. My saint of a mother then does an amzing thing- she literally gave her sister her entire wedding, dress and all! Then my mother wore the exact dress in a smaller ceremony, and a much scaled down version of her original wedding, several months later. </p>
<p>Is there a postscript?? Like, resentment between the two for years? Or, the aunt named the baby after your mother? Or, the guests at your mother’s wedding kept staring at the dress, saying, "I’m sure I’ve seen it somewhere before . . . "</p>
<p>My mom found my dress. I never would have chosen it on my own, but I did love it when I put it on. This was late '80s so you can imagine what it looked like – poofy.</p>
<p>I have an unhappy wedding story. Dh and I were engaged for months and had planned a June wedding. His sister got engaged well after us and then quickly planned her wedding for six weeks before ours, so of course all the out of town family from that side went to hers and not ours. Am I the only one who thinks that was a little jerky?</p>
<p>Sorry, I am late, but I have found my Say Yes to the dress people. I watch faithfully. I watch the re-runs like I am seeing it for the first time. </p>
<p>Wasn’t it the best when Sarah got engaged and was shopping for her dress? I was crying with her. Sarah is also a better person than me, when the customer who saw Sarah’s dress on the show wanted to purchase her dress. Perhaps making the sale took out a bit of the sting:)</p>
<p>I was married in June in a cotton organdy gown, simple but with a tiered skirt. Each tier had a lace over-edging. My cousin had worn a similar dress when I was 13 and that became my dream dress. </p>
<p>My oldest girl had always said she was going to wear that dress even though, growing up, she was much more into glitz and glamour than I. She was married on the coldest day of the year one December and, yes, she wore my gown.</p>
<p>I went to Kleinfeld’s when my sister-in-law was looking for a wedding dress. This was about 10 years ago (before the current owners), but it was a similar set-up – the consultant asked SIL what sort of thing she wanted and came back with three dresses. </p>
<p>During the try-on session, the consultant thought of another option, and because she could tell I was especially interested, took me back to the storeroom with her. Wow! Racks and racks of every kind of dress imaginable (back then they weren’t all strapless They have those huge dry-cleaner ceiling-suspended racks that work with an electric push-button. Very impressive!</p>
<p>My SIL doesn’t enjoy trying on clothes, so she was happy to pick one of the five dresses the consultant brought her (actually they all looked good). I’m bad at making up my mind, so in her situation I would have wanted to try on half the store!</p>
<p>My sister had a looooooooong engagement. My husband-to-be and I became engaged when my sister still had many months left to her engagement. Though we would have happily married right away,I knew she would be terribly upset if I got married before she did. I figured I should give my parents a chance to recover, so we married exactly 3 months after she did. (I’m not sure it made a difference; she found other reasons to be upset with me and continues to do so to this day.)</p>
They have those huge dry-cleaner ceiling-suspended racks that work with an electric push-button. Very impressive!</p>