How Do I Choose a Wedding Dress?
It’s your big day, so you can choose to wear whichever wedding dress makes you feel beautiful and confident. Before you dive headlong into choosing your dream bride’s dress, try to keep these tips in mind:
1. Decide on a budget for your bridal dress and stick to it.
Although it’s easy to get carried away when looking for a wedding dress, it’s best to decide from the start what you are willing and able to spend. Remember, that you will also probably need alterations and accessories like shoes, bridal jewelry, a veil, etc. Overspending on your wedding gown may mean cutting back on other wedding costs, so budget accordingly.
2. Choose a venue before you choose your wedding dress.
Unless you plan to match the venue to the dress, you may want to wait until you decide on the location of your wedding before choosing a bridal dress. While air-conditioned venues make wearing huge, multi-layered wedding gowns in heavy fabrics like tulle or taffeta comfortable, you may want to rethink your choice when opting for a beach destination wedding or outdoor venue in warmer weather. Fabrics like chiffon, lace, and organza are light and airy for a beautiful, yet comfortable look at warm weather weddings.
3. Do your wedding gown research.
Create a folder or start pinning your favorite wedding dress styles. Pick and save your preferred fabrics, necklines, and silhouettes for bridal gowns. By exploring classic styles, as well as wedding dresses with a mixture of modern and traditional elements, you can discover your personal style preferences before you start shopping. Narrowing down your favorite silhouette and features makes shopping through the vast sea of bridal dress options much more manageable and enjoyable.
4. Start shopping early for your bridal gown.
It’s best to start as early as possible when shopping for your wedding dress. Since your research helped you narrow down your style preferences, start by selecting those styles of bridal gowns that caught your eye first. Share your choices with family and friends for support and feedback if you want, but you are the bride and get the final say on your dream wedding dress. Once you’ve found the dress that makes you feel beautiful and it’s time to buy, keep in mind that some designers may take up to six months to create your dream dress, and then there’s additional time for alterations after you receive it. Here at Kleinfeld Bridal Party, you can shop an array of bridal gowns that are ready in weeks, not months.
5. Keep an open mind when shopping for your wedding dress.
While you may insist on looking for the exact wedding dress of your dreams, it’s best to keep an open mind when shopping. Why not check out all of the dresses that are available to you? You may surprise yourself by finding a silhouette that looks even better than the dress you had imagined. You also want to focus on fit, not size. While a dress in a size 8 by one designer may be a size 12 by another, don’t let pride get in the way of choosing your ideal bridal dress, no matter the size number that the designer assigned to it.
Once you find your breathtaking wedding dress among this exclusive Kleinfeld Kollection assortment, let all of the other wedding details fall into place. With unbelievably affordable designs from $495 and up, these beautiful bridal dresses offer up-to-the-minute styling of the highest quality. From gorgeous misses dresses for brides to figure-flattering plus-sized wedding gowns, find your dream wedding dress that captures your unique style here. Whatever style, fabric, neckline, or silhouette you are looking for, nothing says “bride” quite like a gorgeous wedding dress by Kleinfeld Kollection at Kleinfeld Bridal Party.
