Did you gain or lose weight for your wedding? Did you do it intentionally? Did it affect your gown size??

Question

What size gown are wearing? If you gained or lost, what size did you become?

Thanks!!!

Answer 1

I stayed the same. But I was very nervous after the final fitting! LOL! I believe my dress size was a 14. But with the "Super intense" BRA, that I wore under it, it really "Sucked in my stomach", so it fit perfectly and was flat as a pancake! Don't worry it will fit just fine!  

Answer 2

i wore a size 10 gown. i lost about 12 to 15 pounds before my wedding but it didn't affect my dres size, i still wore the 10 and it fit well.

Answer 3

How fatties land husbands is beyond me.

Answer 4

As a competitive athlete I have been the same weight for a very long time. My current weight is pretty much my "ideal" weight for the things I do (triathlon, distance running and open water distance swimming). I don't plan to lose or gain weight before I get married (08/01/09) and based on my current level of fitness I doubt that I will unless something tragic happens (injury, illness, etc). My gown is a size 6, yhat's what I'll be wearing. I measured for a 4, a 6 and an 8 depending on designer.

Good luck!

Answer 5

I stayed about the same, but I'm a marathon runner, so I was scrawny to begin with.

I changed the type of my birth control, and my chest ballooned right before I went gown-shopping, so I had to get a gown that look gigantic on me, and had it taken in everywhere but in the chest. I'm also only 5'1", so all the gowns I tried on looked like parachutes.

I am normally fluctuate between size 0 and a 4 , depending on the brand, but I think my gown was size 6 or 8, I don't remember which.

Gowns have really weird sizes- they run super small, and the sizes are kind of arbitrary.

Whether you gain or lose weight depends a lot on your body. I lose weight when I'm under stress because I just forget to eat. Some people tend to comfort eat when they're stressed out.

Answer 6

I'm a bridal consultant, and I rarely tell brides the size of their gowns, because they'd probably pass out if I did.  Bridal sizing is completely different from regular "off the rack" sizes, a wedding dress will usually be at least a size larger than what a woman usually wears, and frequently it's 2 or even 3 sizes bigger.  

The important thing is not the size of the dress, but how it fits and flatters the bride.  All women, regardless of their size, have body issues that can be emphasized by a gowns design, and issues they'd rather hide.  I've fitted wedding dresses from a size 0 to a size 28, and I can tell you that every single one of my brides looks absolutely radiant on her wedding day.  THAT'S what's important, not what number is on the tag inside the dress.  

FYI, the bride who is a size 0 has just as many concerns about her body as the bride who is a size 28.  

Answer 7

I am almost 6 feet tall, 150 lbs and I did not change my weight.  It was just something that I was told.  The dress size I ordered I could not gain or lose weight.  I wear a size 6 dress normally and a size 10 wedding dress,  Why do you ask?

Answer 8

My sister lost about 20lbs before her wedding. Not on purpose but because she was stressed out so bad about it.