Clearly you must be nuts, because that dress looks INCREDIBLE on you. The models get photoshopped etc. You aren't. You look perfect! Everything looks and sounds so wonderful!!!
Maggie
Thank you, Maggie. You guys are all making me feel so much better (and a little bit like I must be nuts to not be seeing what y'all are
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I know that with a wedding dress, if it doesn't "feel" perfect to you, it can be really disappointing. But, i just wanted to add, that i think the dress is beautiful, and looks great on you in those pictures. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you and hopefully when the length and few imperfections are fixed when you go back in august it will be just like you pictured it! Good luck!! All of your wedding plans sound great!
Thank you so much. These disboards are so great for lapses of confidence. Some decisions have been so easy and have just felt "right", like my shoes, my hair-and-makeup stylist, my DF's suit, the menu, and a few others. With other decisions, you go back-and-forth and second guess yourself so much that you drive yourself a little crazy. I can definitely relate to all those "2 dress" brides now!
Lisa,
I think the dress is absolutely stunning on you. I think when your mom picks it up and you don't have the pressures of the seamstress and those horid lights it will probably be a different story. Don't compare yourself to the model in the photos, remeber they are airbrushed to make them look better. And the part of the boddice, your mom is right she is laying down in that picture. Go ahead and lay down in your dress and I am sure yours will look the same!
The only thing I wonder about is, if you wait till August, and you end up hating the dress, you really wont have enough time to rush another dress. So your options are limited. Can't wait to hear what happens.
Thank you! Maybe I'll have to get a lying down picture, just to post here.
I worried about not having enough time either, but the good thing is that I can't picture myself wanting anything other than all lace, A-line, strapless. And in the months since January, I've never once spotted a dress in a wedding magazine that made me think I wish I had chosen it instead. So... I think this must be the dress for me, despite my doubts. I just need to feel confident that it fits as well as it's supposed to.
I was actually feeling pretty good at the time of the fitting (other than no one else noticing some of the little flaws I saw.) I just asked my dad to email me a couple more of the photos to post here. This one was the one that triggered the "meltdown". When I looked at it, I began to seriously question the fit:
Of course, my mom, ever the rational one, said that I'm not going to be bending over like that in wedding photos. And, of course, she's right. But it made me notice the little gap right in the middle, below my breasts, in the rest of the pictures:
Again, super-rational mom says it's just a shadow. And after everybody's comments here, I'm feeling much, much better. Feeling like it is actually completely fine. And that it's not just mom saying what she thinks will work to make me feel better.