Add me to the list of people who love that song and have it on their playlist.
No tackiness here! My niece’s wedding was this weekend – the groom cried through the entire ceremony (it was so touching). Niece was gorgeous and bursting with joy all weekend. They asked one of my brothers to officiate and told absolutely noone. Surprised the heck out of us all! He did a great job. The bride’s stepbrothers behaved.
They had a breakfast buffet for dinner – quite delicious, but the only veggie served all weekend was cole slaw, which was so covered in dressing that you couldn’t see the green in the cabbage. I was prepared for that, since everyone in my family eats heavily carb-laden food!
And OMG, the difference in venue prices between there and here! The ceremony and reception were at an old train depot near Chattanooga. Rental from 8 am - midnight was $750. Sound system was $100. S1 paid four times that rate at the local country arts facility.
Not really tacky, but I am sick to death of strapless wedding dresses! I got married in 1989 and the long sleeves and high neckline were some of the most beautiful things about it. I’m glad straps and sleeves are making a comeback … Thank you Duchess Kate!
@Pizzagirl -My cousin’s first wedding was black-tie and no kids - both of which were simply not done in our family. All the other cousins skipped it.
I think most brides look awful in strapless gowns. And don’t get me started on bridesmaids grabbing their bosoms every few minutes, hitching up their strapless dresses.
I don’t mind some skin showing, as long as there is proper support–a one shoulder dress, or straps that are actually supporting the dress and not just for decoration.
Even a large-chested woman can wear a strapless dress without any issues when there is a proper support provided by properly fitted “scaffolds.” Sadly, most of these young women pay much less attention to the underpinnings than what goes on top of them. So my vote would be for the strapless tradition to go away.
(If a strapless bra does not pass the bounce test, get a new one!!! We went bra shopping with niece for her formal dress (not strapless, but it has a mesh top). Niece was shocked when I collected every style of strapless bras in the store - in 3 sizes each! - and made her try every single one on until the perfect one was found. )
D is getting married next summer. D is petite and in great shape, so she can wear any kind of dress. Her #1 dress rule was “no strapless dress”.There are many beautiful brides and beautiful strapless dresses, but D wanted something different. Like others, she feels its a style that’s been around too long. She also didn’t want to spend the night hitching up her dress. She found a beautiful dress that has off-the-shoulder straps. It is elegant and will stand the test of time.
I want to hear about what happened with the wedding with 28 bridesmaids and the bride being too busy to attend the wedding rehearsal…
D initially tried on several lovely dresses that were not strapless styles. But when she found “the dress” , it was strapless. And she looked beautiful in it 
My DD also looks great in strapless. I think it depends on the person whether strapless works or not.
I don’t. And I wouldn’t have even when I was 21 and thin. I’ve got shoulders and arms with presence
^^PG- I love that description!
I just made it up :-).
Strapless dresses are all about the architecture and superstructure underneath. If it doesn’t have enough, the fabric will sag and bulge no matter how thin or petite or small-boobed you are. On the other hand, a well-built strapless dress will hold up even the most ginormous rack.
I’ve worn literally hundreds of wedding dresses, and it was amazing to see how poorly made some of them were (and how much fiddling and clamping is required to get them to look decent in a picture). They’re all ridiculously expensive, but not all of them deserve that price tag. Craftsmanship matters.
If a wedding dress looks like crap on you, it’s the dress’s fault, not yours, imo.
There’s got to be a story behind that, MoD. And no structure short of a corset would really keep some girls up. I think the Anna Nicole types were also pasted and bracketed up. Sounds uncomfortable.
^^Well yeah. Wedding dress comfort isn’t really a consideration IF you’re shooting for a particular look. Most fancy dresses are incredibly uncomfortable. Most of the good ones will have a built-in corset to distribute the weight of the dress evenly across your torso without sagging or bulging. It isn’t just to make you look good, the corset also keeps the line of the dress where it needs to be.
Heck, most bras are incredibly uncomfortable.
In the immortal words of Cher (Clueless) “Party clothes are so binding!”
Update from my wedding coordinator friend on the large wedding with 28 bridesmaids. Turns out neither the bride nor the groom made it to rehearsal.
My friend posted on FB that one hour before the stated time for wedding ceremony, she was sitting in an empty church. No wedding party, no florist, no decorations, no guests.
The mystery was solved when my friend mentioned the bride and groom were from Haiti. Aha, they were all running on island time!
The wedding itself turned out great once everyone actually showed up. But my friend was pulling her hair out before she understood no one else cared how late the wedding day events got going.
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My wedding dress was comfortable and fit perfectly. Amazingly I wasn’t even hot and we started with an outdoor ceremony in August in southern California and the dress had long sleeves. The reception had A/C. The dress was made in the 1930s. No corsets just a snug fit.
“My friend posted on FB that one hour before the stated time for wedding ceremony, she was sitting in an empty church. No wedding party, no florist, no decorations, no guests.”
This reminds me of my sister’s wedding. At 2:00pm (stated time of wedding) the bride’s side of the church was full and the groom’s side was empty. Bride showed up at the church around 2:15. Groom’s side started trickling in at 2:30. We finally started at 3:00 pm. Once we started a good time was had by all.
Yes there was a cultural divide going on here and once the bride’s side decided to take it as a cultural experience everything was good.
@mathmom the sleeves provided the structure and distributed the weight of the fabric. I may not have been clear (who, me?) when I was talking about dresses and structure-something needs to provide the structure to the torso, and strapless dresses need that support built in because they don’t have straps or sleeves.