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| Finding the Perfect Dress | So, you have chosen your wedding dress, the clerk or the shop's seamstress will take measurements of your bust, waist and hips, and determine if the dress needs to be taken up.
* Every wedding dress needs some alterations. Also you will need to go in for fittings, usually at least three times. Ensure if your alterations are not free, that you get a written estimate. Realize if you will be able to "borrow" your dress for a portrait sitting, and return it for pressing afterwards. Consider paying with a credit card so that if anything goes wrong, you can dispute the payment.
* You have another great decision to make. So, what about your headpiece and veil? The sellers should be able to help you in choosing a headpiece that goes with your dress. The veil come in several lengths and styles, and again the staff can help you decide which is best for you.
* The veil you choose for your wedding depends on the dress you have chosen.
- If you are wearing a street length casual style dress you wouldn't choose a cathedral or chapel veil, both of which trail the floor. More by token you wouldn't wear a flyaway veil, which barely brushes the shoulders, with a formal dress with a train.
- Don't forget you need to get the right lingerie, shoes and jewelry, to go with your beautiful wedding dress.
Before you leave the bridal salon, there is one more detail to attend to, your bridesmaids dresses. When you choose these dresses take into consideration the ages, complexions, and body types of your attendants.
Fortunately nowadays bridesmaid's gowns are no longer the cookie cutter dresses all in the same color, which nobody would ever wear again.
* Some alternatives for bridesmaid's dresses are to choose a color and fabric suitable for all of the women and let each of them pick a style that she is comfortable with; Or you can choose a simple a-line or empire waist dress that flatters all figures, and let the girls choose the from a color family, say purple, the options could be lilac, lavender, plum, mauve and orchid.
- If you do choose to have all attendants wear the same dress, they can personalize the look with small beaded purses, scarves, jewelry or shawls.
Be aware that the colors and your bridesmaid's wear have to complement the color scheme of your reception; you don't want a red plan for your reception in red if your maids are wearing green, unless you are going for a Christmas look.
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