Another four weeks or so down the line when my IVORY dress had arrived we had a new challenge ahead of us. I had some problems with my health and my doctor informed me I had to lose weight ASAP. So I went on a hardcore diet of Jenny Craig and working out and I started losing weight (FYI I am well on the road to healthy again and my doctor is pleased). In fact when I went in for my dress fitting I found the dress was already a bit lose on me.
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It was still 7 months from the wedding and the dress was loose on me! How much can they take in a dress? How much weight was I going to lose? I needed answers and I needed them STAT! The extremely kind and patient seamstress informed me that they could take a dress in or out approximately 2 sizes but no more or else the dress would lose it's basic shape and it wouldn't look the same.
Queue Bridal Freak Out
What if I lost too much weight (so not a thought that had ever gone through my head before)?! What if the dress couldn't be sized down enough? Sensing my inner turmoil (i.e. 100 mph incoherent speech I was giving Mama Ticket about dress sizes) the David's Bridal employees kindly offered to let me exchange my dress again but this time for a smaller size. Seriously these guys are absolute life savers. <3 You David's Bridal!!!
Now to figure out what size to order... We started out with a 16W which I was told is the equivalent of an 18 regular (which they don't actually sell). So given the rate at which I was losing weight we anticipated I would need to get a dress around a size 12 (that's 3 sizes smaller) and the dress could be altered smaller or larger safely.
May I now tell you how deeply stressed this decision made me. I had only just started my weight loss journey and already we were banking on me losing 30-40 pounds to fit into this dress!? I was scared. Scared that my beautiful dress wasn't going to fit. But we went ahead and placed the order and waited (you guessed it) another 4-5 weeks till the size 12 came in. We knew it wouldn't fit yet since I still had a little over 5 months to continue losing weight. And so I decided to wait until after I had finished my first month of Boot Camp (totally inspired by Mrs. Penguin) before I would try on my dress.
Did you have a surprise weight loss throughout your wedding planning journey? How did it affect your wedding dress situation?
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