Nakia Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Can any of you still fit in your wedding dress? I finally sent my off today to be preserved, but before I boxed it up, the girls wanted me to try it on. I protested, knowing full well I couldn't wear the blooming thing, but they really really really wanted to see it on me. Well they saw it, but not on me. It wouldn't zip. I knew it wouldn't. I mean, my goodness, I weigh about 35 pounds more than I did when I got married 10 years ago. But still, it was a bit depressing. I guess I am just looking for empathy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ria Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 LOL. No way. Even though now I'm only 125 and on the thin side, when I got married I weighed 98 lbs. Ick. Ria Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tammy Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Well mine is actually too big for me (in the bust area), LOL. It was just a prom dress.....that I made into a halloween outfit (corpse bride) this past year, LOL. All that breastfeeding did a number on my bust, LOL! I do weigh a little less than I did when I got married.....again....probably that breastfeeding, LOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klmama Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 There's no way! I weigh a good 15 lbs. more now, and it was a bit tight as it was. I'm saving it in case dd wants to wear it someday, but I couldn't if I tried. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5sweeties Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Nope. I weigh the same as I did when I got married, and am in way better shape...but my rib cage is way bigger, after 5 kids. I can zip it up to my ribs, and that's it. I'd have to be a total twig, and even then, I'm not sure it would actually zip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Uh...no. I'd had mono in the months before we married, so I was pretty darn thin anyway. Today...not so much:D I still have my dress, but if the kiddoes want to see it on me...that's what photos are for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5kidsforME Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 :lol: :smilielol5::smilielol5::smilielol5: :blink::blink: :crying: no. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joannqn Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 At 60 pounds heavier than when I got married (marriage and three kids hasn't been kind to my waistline), no way. Glad I got rid of the thing years ago! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aubrey Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 You want to hear something really sad? We had a friend do our wedding photos, & afterwards, she said that since she was thinking of someday maybe being a professional photographer, she was keeping the negatives. She took the photos to be developed, passed them around for everybody to see before we even got back from our honeymoon, & then gave us the negatives because the pictures "turned out so bad." They were really bad. But the *very few* pics she took of dh & me together...I've never seen. I also never had bridal pics made. She took one or two of just me the day of, but those are missing, too. I always figured I'd just wait until after the wedding to do bridal pics. By golly. If I *ever* fit into that dress again, I don't care how old I am. I'm having the pics made! But I have this underlying...fear?...realization?...that even if I were to lose enough weight (& I was a size 5, easy), things have...shifted. I'm pretty sure that having 4 babies moves bones around. Plus, I actually have *some* bust now. I wonder if that matters? :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnetteB Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 I donated mine to the drama department at our old high school long ago. This redhead looks dreadful in white and my grandmother insisted that I wear white rather than the ivory I wanted. Moral to the story? At 19 I had a lot of backbone to still grow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 I could probably fit into mine. I'm smaller now than when I got married. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovemyboys Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 :lol: :smilielol5::smilielol5::smilielol5: :blink::blink: no. I was coming on to post the same message. But you did it so nicely, I'll just copy yours. Thereby using even fewer calories. ack. :lol: :001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackie in NE Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Hahahahahahaha! That's a good one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HRAAB Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Twenty-three years later, five children/four pregnancies, middle age - what do you think? Janet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudoMom Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Yep. But I think I outgrew it a month after our wedding, spent the next decade 80+ pounds overweight, and then lost all the weight in 2006. So now I can :D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaT Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 I wore that dress 27 years ago. I look at it now and wonder what I was thinking. I don't think I weigh much more, but things have moved around too much to every be able to wear it - even if I wanted to - which I don't! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alphabetika Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Bwa ha ha haaaaaa!!!!! :lol: Fit into my wedding dress? :lol::lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnTheBrink Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 The cats peed on it so I threw it away. I figure given how the marriage went, it was a fitting send-off for a dress I never liked to start with! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cathmom Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 I gained about 15 lbs the first year of our marriage, so I couldn't have fit into it on our first anniversary! It was like the freshman 15, just with marriage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie Laurie Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 LOL. No way. Even though now I'm only 125 and on the thin side, when I got married I weighed 98 lbs. Ick. Ria That's me almost exactly. No way could I fit in it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenKitty Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Nope, to big for me. I plan on opening it up some day and cuting into it, to make a dif dress out of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 I did about 4 years ago. I could probably could get it on today, but there is no way it would zip. I was pretty thin 16 years ago. :glare::glare::glare::grouphug: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawn of ns Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Mine wedding dress was a maternity dress so I rather hope that at this point in my life I don't fit in it! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colleen Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 My weight never seems to vary much. I was 120 or so when I met Han and that's almost exactly what I weight now. I was five months pregnant when we were married and, thanks to constant "morning" (ha!) sickness, hadn't gained more than a couple of pounds at that point. The day we were married, I wore my ski outfit, and for our party a few nights later I wore a sleeveless, black Donna Karan dress that still fits fine. (Not that I have any compelling reason to wear it.:tongue_smilie:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TKDmom Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 No way. I was 15 pounds underweight when I got married. I'm much "healthier" now. Now that I look at my wedding dress (with the yellowed underarms and broken threads from when dh stepped on my train) I wonder why I was so adamant that I had to buy it and not just rent. It's not like I was going to wear it again. It would have save a couple hundred dollars and a bunch of closet space if I had rented. . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colleen Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 (edited) Nope. I weigh the same as I did when I got married, and am in way better shape...but my rib cage is way bigger, after 5 kids. Yeah, we can weigh the same amount but be shaped differently, can't we? I know for sure that some stuff has expanded, some stuff has increased, and the pounds, while still the same, aren't distributed exactly the same way as they were 20 years ago.:D Edited February 18, 2009 by Colleen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PinkInTheBlue Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 I weigh the same as I did almost 19 years ago but things are slightly shaped differently. Actually I'm pretty sure the dress would fit since the hips wouldn't matter so much. I like that I have a bit more hip than then. Being "underweight" and not much curves is pretty twiggy. At least now I have curves redistributed. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elaine Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Yes, and I put it on occassionally. It's too beautiful not to.:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmschoolmom22 Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 2 kids, 19 years and about 50 lbs heavier...I don't think so! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jen in PA Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 I weigh about 15 pounds less than when we married, but the real issue is that 18 months of pregnancy plus 3+ years of nursing has left me much less buxom. I still have my dress, but have no desire to even try it on again -- my body is very different now, and I think that's mostly in a good way. And next week marks 7 years since I last wore it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janna Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 I don't know if it still fits me. My gut wants to say that not only would it still fit me, but it might even be a little big. I have been curious for some time now, but I thought I was told that once the dress was cleaned, boxed and sealed, not to open it again because air would get in there and ruin the dress. Is this true? Can I not just tape the thing up again? I mean, I have always wondered how we would know if it's my dress in the box (the cleaners boxed it), and I don't see where they were able to vacuum suck the air out, so common sense tells me I can re-tape it. But then again, Common Sense died, so apparently I don't have it anymore. ;):lol: Seriously, anyone know if I can open it, try it on and then box and re-tape it again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elise1mds Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 I gained about 15 lbs the first year of our marriage, so I couldn't have fit into it on our first anniversary! It was like the freshman 15, just with marriage. :iagree: :glare: I am finally back down to the first anniversary weight, though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veritaserum Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Eh, it happens. :) I couldn't fit into post babies even weighing less than I did on the day I got married. I had a super tiny rib cage that expanded during pregnancy. Even now I wear a 32 bra band, which is too big for my wedding dress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barb_ Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 But I have this underlying...fear?...realization?...that even if I were to lose enough weight (& I was a size 5, easy), things have...shifted. I'm pretty sure that having 4 babies moves bones around. Plus, I actually have *some* bust now. I wonder if that matters? :lol: Yes, the first part of your story is very sad. :crying: ...and the part I quoted above? Definitely. Thighs? Bigger. Butt? Smaller. Waist? :smilielol5: Bust? :auto: Hips? Wider. Shoulders? Bonier. Sigh. Barb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pretty in Pink Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Yes, I could put it on and it would fit well, but please remember the following: 1. I have been married only 6 years, and 2. I already had a kid (and hence, the whole hip thing) before we were married. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest janainaz Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 No!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Yep, but I was a lil pg when I wore it so I don't know if it counts :0) Had it been a well fitting, pre-pg dress....no. I was a 5'8" 112lb size 4, now I am a much healthier size 8. I never, ever want to be a 4 again though, so this isn't a bad thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CactusPair Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 It's not the weight so much as the stretch factor of kids that would keep me out of it. I can't wear the same clothes I used to though I weigh the same. My pieces just popped out of place and never went back I guess.:001_smile: These hips swing, baby. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzanne in ABQ Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 :bigear: Huh? :001_unsure: Me? in my wedding dress? :smilielol5: Hahahahahah Hohohohohoho Heeheeheehee :tongue_smilie: Yeah, right! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fivetails Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Nope, I weigh about 25lbs less than I did on our wedding day - dress is quite a bit too big now, which is too bad in a way because I *love* that dress... Wasn't a "normal" wedding dress though - it was a long dark blue dress...I don't know what to call it....sorta evening gown-ish? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim in Appalachia Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 :lol: :smilielol5: I weighed 120 when I got married, I'm now 150. I think I would be crushed if I tried it on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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