How to Feel Confident When Wedding Dress Shopping

If you’re a bride-to-be, preparing for your wedding has brought up many emotions. It’s normal to be feeling nervous about how you look when all eyes are going to be on you. Every bride wants to find the perfect dress, adding a lot of pressure on one single shopping trip. It’s easy to feel disappointed in your body when you can’t find the dress you’ve hoped for. Wedding dress shopping should be an exciting and memorable experience, not a miserable one! Here are a few tips to help you look and feel your best the day you say, “I do”! 

 Choose your entourage carefully

A good support system is very important when dress shopping. Being kind to yourself is already hard enough when shopping, you don’t want other’s being negative as well. We all have friends who are too honest and sometimes can come off as being harsh. These are the people you do not want to bring. Of course, every bride wants to have other opinions and criticism. Make sure to bring people who deliver these comments in a supportive manner. 

Stop looking at sizes

A number will never define your worth! Make a promise to yourself to not look at the size when you’re trying on dresses. Size is just a number and can vary from store to store. You may be a size 10 at one store than a size 8 at the next. It is not the size that matters, but the way you feel when you put it on. 

Try different silhouettes

Most brides come into their appointment expecting to get a certain style. Don’t close yourself off to different dresses just because you think only one certain silhouette will look good on you. Try on a wide variety of options, you never know what can surprise you! 

Replace the negative thoughts

This is key to remaining body positive while looking for your wedding dress. Anytime you have a negative thought about your body, try replacing it with a positive one. Shopping can be stressful, there is no room for negativity!

What Does Beauty Mean to You?

              As women, we have so many outside influences telling us to feel beautiful right after feeding us idea after idea about how we should constantly change ourselves. Another aspect many attempts at body positivity don’t consider is that beauty is subjective and often personal and unique to each individual. Here at DressHaute, our goal is helping women feel more beautiful, so we must ask this question: What does “beauty” mean to you?

              The answers many would give range from physical aspects of the body or fashion to more philosophical approaches. For myself, I would summarize my definition as overall contentment in oneself. While it would be amazing for us all to feel 100% enthusiastic and positive about ourselves 24/7, that approach is not always attainable for many women across all walks of life. We all have our insecurities, and some attempts at body positivity ignore that and end up alienating women instead of empowering them.

                A more attainable approach would be wanting to be at peace with where you are now, even if you’re not always happy. It’d create a healthier relationship with fashion, for starters. When was the last time you bought something just because you liked the piece and not because you were chasing an ideal version of yourself? For many of us, that answer is a lot further back than we would like to admit. Maybe it’s time that we step back and appreciate who we are in its entirety and just have fun with fashion again.

Share your thoughts with us! What is beauty to you, and when was the last time you felt beautiful?

- Alysha ♡