try on one of each silhoue e or style. en, you’ll be able to see how you look in each one and nd out which one accentuates your best features and makes you feel absolutely beautiful and stunning (as your wedding dress should).
#4
You shouldn’t start shopping until you are the size you want to be on your wedding day. Another variation of this myth is that a wedding dress must t you perfectly before you can buy it. Planning a wedding can be a very stressful experience and stress is a well-known and proven cause of weight uctuation. In our experience, at least 98% of all of the dresses that brides buy at our store require some type of alterations. If you are planning to lose weight, it is easy and inexpensive to adjust the gown you’ve chosen to t you closer to your wedding day. e problem with waiting is that you limit your choices (since gowns require time to order) and especially since a gown you love may be sold to another decisive bride. e majority of brides buy their dresses nine to eighteen months prior to their weddings with this in mind. ey know they should get their alterations done closer to the date of the wedding. ey plan ahead and ensure that they’ll get the dress they love most and then alter it to t perfectly right before the wedding. If you wait, you may have to scramble to nd the dress you want and pay extra in alterations and rush fees that could have been avoided with planning. A good rule of thumb is to buy the dress that best ts you now and you can always alter it down if you lose weight. If you don’t, you don’t have to stress out. Remember, your gown can be altered to t you perfectly and your ancé loves you just as you are. Don’t forget that you’ll relieve a lot of the stress of planning your wedding once you have your dress (since you’ll be able to focus on the many other decisions that go into planning your wedding) and a knowledgeable and competent seamstress can sculpt the dress you’ve chosen to t you like a glove.
#5
You shouldn’t buy the rst dress you try on at the rst store you’ve gone to. is common belief is really an extension of Myth #3 that you have to look and look until you nd the perfect dress. While it is a good idea to look to ensure that you make the best choice (it is your wedding a er all), it is a myth to believe that you can’t buy a dress you love at the rst store
you’ve been to. A er all, you have great taste and are going to pick beautiful dresses from any store that you go to. A large percentage of brides end up buying the rst dress they try on for this reason. eir eye is drawn to a dress they really love and they end up ge ing that rst dress they tried on. ose brides who are indecisive usually come back and end up buying that dress a er they’ve spent time and money on gasoline by driving all over that they could have easily saved by trusting their instincts and ge ing the dress they loved when they rst tried it on. At our store, we even have a special incentive for decisive brides who buy on their rst visit. I’ve a ached a coupon below that you can use when you schedule your appointment at our store. We are able to o er this special savings since we have the price of two visits built into every dress. When brides choose to buy the dress they love most on their rst visit, we pass those savings along to them. Trust your instincts. You may not nd your dress at the rst store you go to, but if you do, don’t hesitate to begin enjoying the euphoric feeling you’ll have knowing that you have that part of your wedding all taken care of. Remember, when you choose to bring lots of friends to help you shop, you also bring lots of opinions. Be careful that you don’t let the opinions of your friends in uence what you really want to wear (because, a er all, it is your wedding).
#6
If it is meant to be, it won’t be sold before I come back. It is easy to get caught up in the notion of fate and that things happen for a reason. e opposite is also true. Sometimes things happen for no reason at all and for reasons that can’t be explained. When you nd your dress, it is best to decide to get it then, instead of le ing another bride and her mother decide for you. At our store, we dress thousands of brides each year. We are busy and on multiple occasions we’ve seen brides who have trusted fate wake up to the realization that the dress they loved most had been sold. ey cried, pleaded and begged for us to help them get another dress in, but many times it just isn’t possible. e question you have to ask yourself is this: If you’ve found your dress, why would you let another bride and her mother tell you what you will or won’t be wearing your wedding day? Isn’t that a decision you’d rather make? Believe me, you don’t want to return to a store you’ve been to hoping your dress is still there and leaving crushed that it has already been sold.
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I’ve seen that happen on too many occasions and I don’t want to see it happen to you. When you nd your dress, take control. Don’t let the dress of your dreams slip through your ngers and let someone else make the decision for you. You’ve done the hard work and found your dress. Go ahead and get the dress you love and you’ll be absolutely ecstatic leaving the store that no one can take the dress you’ve found away from you. On top of that, you’ll save money by buying your dress on your rst visit. You can use that savings for something else that you’re planning for your wedding. Don’t let the myth of fate determine the consequences of your decisions for you. You decided to marry your best friend and you should also decide to get the dress you love (not let someone else make that decision for you).
#7
It’s cheaper if you or someone you know makes your wedding dress. ere is an old myth that says, “ e bride should not make her own wedding dress; for each stitch up of the wedding garb the bride sews herself she’ll shed one tear during her marriage.” is old saying obviously has no scienti c basis. While it is usually cheaper to do things yourself, such is not the case today with wedding gowns. All wedding gowns are sewn by hand and are done so by artisans and professionals who have years of experience in constructing gowns day in and day out. ere are many intricate details that go into making a wedding gown. On some of the dresses in our store, there are over 10,000 individual beads that are sewn onto each individual dress, all by hand. It takes 38 days for one highly skilled seamstress just to sew on all of the beadwork, not to mention all of the other aspects of delicately placing each piece of boning and fabric to make a work of art. If you are blessed to have a talented seamstress in your family, you are a lucky bride indeed. However, even talented seamstresses recognize that wedding gowns that are produced at the best factories have a level of detail and a ention that even they can’t match or re-create. At our store, we are able to o er gowns at prices much lower than what a close family member can make a gown for (especially if you factor in all of the time it takes to create the gown and do all of the ings). Do yourself a favor and let that special someone in your life help you do the alterations and trust the wedding artisans who construct our gowns to take care of all of the details to make your stunning dress. Regardless