Wedding Dress Sizing

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Dear Wedding Dress Designers -

Stop freaking us out! It takes every bride way too long to realize that wedding dress sizes do not match up with the sizes of regular dresses. I don't know what it is in the fashion industry that decides what size a garment is, but whatever the criteria is right now, it should change for wedding gowns.

If there is going to be a discrepancy, it should be the other way around. If I wear a size 8 dress normally, I want my wedding gown to be a size 6, not a size 12!

Sewing your Own Wedding Dress

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Sewing your own wedding gown is not as difficult as it may seem. In fact, by doing the work yourself, you may end up with a dress that's even more beautiful than you could possibly imagine.

Wedding Dress Terminology

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I've been working on a glossary program for this wedding dress site, and before I release everything (it could be a week or more), I thought I would share a few wedding dress terms that might help you out.

Princess Gown: Clean Angular Lines with a soft form. A subdued variation of the "Ball Gown" featuring a slightly tapered waist that gives way to an "A shaped" skirt.

Caroline Herrera

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Carolina Herrera, designer of Renee Zellweger's wedding dress, blabs to Women's Wear Daily as only a very, very private person would.

Seattle E-bay Wedding Dress

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There was a bit of a buzz earlier this week when a seattle man auctioned his ex-wife's wedding gown. Here is the text of his auction, it's hysterical.

edit... apparently this was last year. Oh well, still funny.

The size 12 dress ended up selling for $3850

I found my ex-wife's wedding dress in the attic when I moved. She took the $4000 engagement ring but left the dress. I was actually going to have a dress burning party when the divorce became final, but my sister talked me out of it. She said, "That’s such a gorgeous dress. Some lucky girl would be glad to have it. You should sell it on EBay. At least get something back for it." So, this is what I’m doing. I’m selling it hoping to get enough money for maybe a couple of Mariners tickets and some beer. This dress cost me $1200 that my drunken sot of an ex-father-in-law swore up and down he would pay for but didn’t so I got stuck with the bill.

Summer Wedding Dresses

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Linda Wells, the editor-in-chief of the new magazine, Allure Bride visited The Early Show to help crack the complicated wedding dress code

We've all heard of Bridezilla

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But what about Momzilla? An article at pittsburghlive.com reminded me of this not-as-rare-as-it-should-be creature.

Quoting the article:
There's the mother-in-law who not-so-nonchalantly suggests she join the honeymoon soiree. The mother-in-law who leaves diet recipes laying around the kitchen so "you can fit in your wedding dress." The mother-in-law who refuses to take down prom pictures and vacation photos with your fiance's ex-girlfriend in them.

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